Hello I'm Simon, welcome to my workshop, in this video I'm going to be restoring these
two Stanley spokeshaves I inherited from my father-in-law, I'm also going to be making
a jig so that I can sharpen the blades using my honing guide.
I start by disassembling the spoke shaves, the small one is a Stanley Number 64, the
other is a derivative of the Stanley No 51.
Then I wash the parts in hot soapy water, using my wife's toothbrush to get into all
the corners.
That done I use my Proxxon rotary tool with a brass wire brush to remove the more stubborn
grime and any loose paint.
Now to renovate the blades, I'm only showing the blade for the Stanley Number 64 as the
process is the same for both, I begin by flattening the back of the blade using 120 grit sandpaper,
moving up to 220 grit when I'm satisfied I've got it flat.
I then polish both sides with Braso.
So I've tidied up the blade on the Number 64 spokeshave I haven't sharpened it yet it's
really blunt the bevel on the blade needs to be 30 degrees, it will fit in my honing
guide but it's a bit short so i need to make some sort of adapter up so that i can fix
it to this, and then get the right angle.
I'm going to cut this aluminium to width, I'm going to utilise the factory cut edge,
so that I've got one very straight edge, and I'll cut two pieces out one for each blade
because they are different widths.
I use a Sharpie to colour the surface and then mark the width with my calipers.
cutting the piece out on the band saw.
I use some sand paper on top of my engineers surface plate to remove the sharp corners
and cut marks.
I use my speed square as a reference and mark a point on the jig that I will later drill
and tap.
I'm a bit of a hoarder, stripping down anything that's broken for hardware that might be useful
in the future and I keep a few boxes of bits, I'm looking for an appropriate sized finger
bolt I can use to hold the spokeshave blade to the honing guide jig I'm making, and after
a bit of rooting around I find a couple of good candidates.
I also keep any offcuts I think might be useful in the future, these are waste from a hole
saw, but will make perfect washers for what I have in mind.
so I clean them up, first using the belt sander and hand finishing then with some sand paper.
I drill a hole ready for tapping.
I clean up the slight burr and test fit the finger bolts.
The way these work, you have your bevel down, put in there like that, pinch it up, then
you - using the flat edge, (factory flat edge) you get it flat and then pinch it up, check
that it is flat - looks flat to me, I should now be able to put it in the honing guide.
I need to get this primary bevel at 30, it doesn't matter if it is slightly different,
I need to make a set-up jig so that I can consistently get the correct angle for sharpening,
I can't use the Axminster Rider set-up jig as the blade is held in the jig at a different
height to the plane blades so I manufacture one of my own using an off cut. The slots
in the jig are to allow for the finger bolt.
I set the blade to 30 degrees and marked up the position from the edge of the honing guide
to the edge of the blade and then cut out a shoulder on the set-up jig, I did the same
for 35 degree bevel.
The jig wasn't very nice to hold so I rounded off the corners on the band saw.
The blade needs re-profiling so I start with 100 grit paper, move to 220 grit then the
400 grit diamond stone, I add a 35 degree secondary bevel and then strop the blade on
the leather block.
The sole of the spokeshave is in reasonable condition, but so I just give it a quick once
over using the 400 and 1000 grit diamond stone.
Quite a lot of the black Japanned finish has come off so I give each spokeshave a few coats
of gloss paint to tidy them up, this paint is supposed to be touch dry in an hour and
re-coatable in 4, however you don't really get a hard durable finish for at lease a couple
of days and they are best not roughly handled during this period or it can impact the finish.
I re-assembled the spokeshaves, set them, then tested them. My Father-in-law would be
very happy knowing they are still in use, especially so because his grandson uses them
to shape the necks of he guitars he makes.
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