What’s on the Sharpening Tools poster
A 7-row table: Tool · Angle · Note.
Bevel angles per side.
- Kitchen knife (Western) — 20° — General purpose
- Kitchen knife (Japanese) — 15° — Sharper, more delicate
- Chisel — 25–30° — Plus a micro-bevel
- Plane iron — 25° — Bevel down
- Axe — 25–30° — Convex edge
- Scissors — Factory angle — Do not re-profile
- Secateurs — Outer bevel only — Never sharpen the inner face
Sharpening removes metal. Honing realigns the edge and removes almost none — do that far more often.
Questions about the Sharpening Tools poster
- What’s on the Sharpening Tools poster?
- A 7-row table: Tool · Angle · Note. Bevel angles per side. Kitchen knife (Western) — 20° — General purpose; Kitchen knife (Japanese) — 15° — Sharper, more delicate; Chisel — 25–30° — Plus a micro-bevel; Plane iron — 25° — Bevel down; Axe — 25–30° — Convex edge; Scissors — Factory angle — Do not re-profile; Secateurs — Outer bevel only — Never sharpen the inner face. Sharpening removes metal. Honing realigns the edge and removes almost none — do that far more often.
- Who is the Sharpening Tools poster for?
- Sharpening Tools belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning repair can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Sharpening Tools poster?
- A shallower angle is sharper and more fragile. A steeper one lasts longer and cuts less well. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Sharpening Tools belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Sharpening Tools?
- Choosing an Adhesive, Soldering and Bleeding Radiators sit alongside Sharpening Tools in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Choosing an AdhesiveSolderingBleeding Radiators
- Is the Sharpening Tools poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Sharpening Tools downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Sharpening Tools poster print at?
- Sharpening Tools is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Sharpening Tools loses nothing.Printing guide
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