03-06-2018, 11:10 AM
Jan,
I have choose to use screws instead of blank rods to hold up the bar the pivot sits on. Those screws are made of stainless steel and hold high quality. Where other sharpening tools slide up and down, Chef adjustment in height are made by screws.
1 full turn gives 7/100 part if 1 degree = 1/7 part of a full turn gives 1/100 part of 1 degree. It is very simple. I cannot meassure this if cause - but all meassuring tools are based on the same type of mathematic.
To fix the bar in position i use 2 screws. Thise screws are real stainless steel if veey high quality. They press the bar between them. The upper one have a marking on the upper side. With the help of this mark it is possible to move this screw dor example exact 1 full turn. I have also a wider screw, real wide. With this acrew it US very simple to move exactly 1/7 of a full turn = change the angle 1/100 part if 1 degree.
The screw on downside the har have also a marking on its upper side. This markings was there allready on my first Chef. The wider screw are extra equipment.
Now, to make a change of the edge angle with 1/100 part of 1 degree have no practical use what so ever. But - i can adjust an edge exactly 0,25 degrees if I like to, or 0,5 degrees. the main function of this possibilitie is that when I test two different steelqualities i can grind their edges exactly the same before testing them. Both edges need to have exactly the same edge when testing them.
Chef have markings on the guide rods for 28 cm distance between the cutting edge and the pivot point.
The slide make it possible to veey easy adjust Chef for different blade width. That incloudes also for example that you can asjust for deep recurved edges inthe same way, if you like to do that.
Chef have, if I remember correct, 16 new functions for sharpening tools. The fixed distance, allways 28 cm, was necesarry to give Chef a built in protractor (the first sharpning tool that have this) this was possible thru the slide and 2D pivot point (up and down, forward and back). Later, I made tye Rail that give a 3D pivot point (sideways, up and down, forward and back).
Other new functions was magnetic grindingtables, angled guide rods that grind convex edges in wanted degrees and in wanted convex spheres (with the help of the two stop nuts on the guide rod that give wanted distance for the sharpener to move). The adjustble sharpener holder that can use sharpeners and strops up to 23 cm in length. Two grinding tables as standard, one dor short blades, one for long blades.
Adjustble knife neck support tyat gives support also for curved knifenecks - and so on...
Other things:
Chef are made i massive aluminum, 15 mm thick, and brass. No platsic. Hand made in all parts, no other tools needed to clamp knifes ore adjust Chef in any way.
So, Chef are a very advanced sharpening tool in al aspects. When I show Chef for the first time there was only one other bench tool on the market, EdgePro. All other bench tools come later.
Next step is a extra equipment for Chef that make it possible to grind in Zero degrees - and 90 degrees in both directions from zero degrees, a scissor sharpening equipment, axe sharpening equipment for small axes, a chissel sharpening equipment, and much moore...
Chef will be the base of a complete sharpening system that can grind and sharpen most edged tools there are.
So, yes, Chef can be adjusted down to 1/100 part if 1 degree - and when that is done, i can go between those two angles ans hit their surfaces perfect. No other tools can do that.ä
I am not a person that walk thru life beeing proud of things - but sometimes I am proud of Chef
My most advanced shatpening tool are: IcePal. IcePal sharpens ice drills and augers, all of them.
Most people have "problems" to get a knife edge sharp. Knife edges have only 1 dimension. Ice drill edges have 3 different dimensions and are probebly the hardest edges in the world to sharpen becouse of this.
IcePal sharpens all three dimensions at the same time. The best thing with this are that no one can have a personal opinion about this, only the ice can tell the quality of the edge. A ice drill drills a hole in the ice - or dont drill at all, tye edge just slides on the ice.
If 1 mm if the edge is not oerfect, the drive deill will not function at all. That is wonderful. By a IcePal from me, sharpen your ice drill, if the drill dont work send IcePal back to me and I send you your money back. I have not get any IcePal back yet
The edges on a ice drill have 3 dimensions, 1 the edge hold 40 degrees in ine end and 20 degrees innthe other end. 2 the edge is concave, 3 the edge is screwed.
IcePal sharpens all three dimensions at the same tine - and do not change any angle, and IcePal can repeat it any time you need to sharpen your ice drill.
Ok, sorry that you cannot give me an answer about this small change of the angle. I shall try to make a video of this small change later on.
Thomas
I have choose to use screws instead of blank rods to hold up the bar the pivot sits on. Those screws are made of stainless steel and hold high quality. Where other sharpening tools slide up and down, Chef adjustment in height are made by screws.
1 full turn gives 7/100 part if 1 degree = 1/7 part of a full turn gives 1/100 part of 1 degree. It is very simple. I cannot meassure this if cause - but all meassuring tools are based on the same type of mathematic.
To fix the bar in position i use 2 screws. Thise screws are real stainless steel if veey high quality. They press the bar between them. The upper one have a marking on the upper side. With the help of this mark it is possible to move this screw dor example exact 1 full turn. I have also a wider screw, real wide. With this acrew it US very simple to move exactly 1/7 of a full turn = change the angle 1/100 part if 1 degree.
The screw on downside the har have also a marking on its upper side. This markings was there allready on my first Chef. The wider screw are extra equipment.
Now, to make a change of the edge angle with 1/100 part of 1 degree have no practical use what so ever. But - i can adjust an edge exactly 0,25 degrees if I like to, or 0,5 degrees. the main function of this possibilitie is that when I test two different steelqualities i can grind their edges exactly the same before testing them. Both edges need to have exactly the same edge when testing them.
Chef have markings on the guide rods for 28 cm distance between the cutting edge and the pivot point.
The slide make it possible to veey easy adjust Chef for different blade width. That incloudes also for example that you can asjust for deep recurved edges inthe same way, if you like to do that.
Chef have, if I remember correct, 16 new functions for sharpening tools. The fixed distance, allways 28 cm, was necesarry to give Chef a built in protractor (the first sharpning tool that have this) this was possible thru the slide and 2D pivot point (up and down, forward and back). Later, I made tye Rail that give a 3D pivot point (sideways, up and down, forward and back).
Other new functions was magnetic grindingtables, angled guide rods that grind convex edges in wanted degrees and in wanted convex spheres (with the help of the two stop nuts on the guide rod that give wanted distance for the sharpener to move). The adjustble sharpener holder that can use sharpeners and strops up to 23 cm in length. Two grinding tables as standard, one dor short blades, one for long blades.
Adjustble knife neck support tyat gives support also for curved knifenecks - and so on...
Other things:
Chef are made i massive aluminum, 15 mm thick, and brass. No platsic. Hand made in all parts, no other tools needed to clamp knifes ore adjust Chef in any way.
So, Chef are a very advanced sharpening tool in al aspects. When I show Chef for the first time there was only one other bench tool on the market, EdgePro. All other bench tools come later.
Next step is a extra equipment for Chef that make it possible to grind in Zero degrees - and 90 degrees in both directions from zero degrees, a scissor sharpening equipment, axe sharpening equipment for small axes, a chissel sharpening equipment, and much moore...
Chef will be the base of a complete sharpening system that can grind and sharpen most edged tools there are.
So, yes, Chef can be adjusted down to 1/100 part if 1 degree - and when that is done, i can go between those two angles ans hit their surfaces perfect. No other tools can do that.ä
I am not a person that walk thru life beeing proud of things - but sometimes I am proud of Chef
My most advanced shatpening tool are: IcePal. IcePal sharpens ice drills and augers, all of them.
Most people have "problems" to get a knife edge sharp. Knife edges have only 1 dimension. Ice drill edges have 3 different dimensions and are probebly the hardest edges in the world to sharpen becouse of this.
IcePal sharpens all three dimensions at the same time. The best thing with this are that no one can have a personal opinion about this, only the ice can tell the quality of the edge. A ice drill drills a hole in the ice - or dont drill at all, tye edge just slides on the ice.
If 1 mm if the edge is not oerfect, the drive deill will not function at all.
That is wonderful. By a IcePal from me, sharpen your ice drill, if the drill dont work send IcePal back to me and I send you your money back. I have not get any IcePal back yet The edges on a ice drill have 3 dimensions, 1 the edge hold 40 degrees in ine end and 20 degrees innthe other end. 2 the edge is concave, 3 the edge is screwed.
IcePal sharpens all three dimensions at the same tine - and do not change any angle, and IcePal can repeat it any time you need to sharpen your ice drill.
Ok, sorry that you cannot give me an answer about this small change of the angle. I shall try to make a video of this small change later on.
Thomas