Workshop on blade sharpening

Bookbinding Tool Making Intensive

"Knives, Folders and Lifting Tools"
with Jeff Peachey
Conservation Lab
Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah
June 23-25, 2016

Price:

    $300 for GBW members
    $315 for non-GBW members

In this three day tool making intensive, we will make several knives
by hand, using stock reduction, and make a variety of Delrin and
Tonkin bamboo folding and lifting tools.  Participants should bring
any tools they wish to discuss, sharpen, alter, clean or restore.
The specific tools that bookbinders use will be examined in detail:
paring knives, lifting knives, scissors, hole punches, spokeshaves
and board shear blades.  The pros and cons of various sharpening
systems will be discussed, including water stones, ceramic stones,
diamond stones, oil stones, natural stones, silicone carbide powder,
aluminum oxide powder, diamond paste, abrasive papers and stropping
compounds.  Basic principals of tool steel and edge geometry will be
discussed.  This class will focus on the techniques of efficient
free-hand sharpening, which is applicable to any sharpening system.
Participants will be provided the 3M Microfinishing film, a large
paring or lifting knife blank, and all hard hacksaw blades to two
small knives of their choosing, a variety of Delrin blanks and
Tonkin Bamboo.  The goal is to free participants from the plethora
of misinformation and mystique that surrounds sharpening and the
shaping material using hand tools.

To sign up for this class see

    <URL:https://gbw.formstack.com/forms/toolmaking>

This class has been graciously subsidized by the Harold B. Lee
Library and the Church History Library in a joint venture with the
Guild of Bookworkers.  No materials fee is required.  Once signed
up, further information and details will be sent.

Please contact katie.smith<-at->ldschurch<.>org or 801-240-6983 for any
questions regarding the workshop.


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