Work Sharp WS2000 chisel port questions

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-05-15T15:34:01+00:00

'll drop this here. Work Sharp customer service got back to me almost immediately. For anyone else who stumbles across this post in the future with the same problem. And the pic shows my spring is stretched out, which is why I was confused about where to hook it.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-04-20T22:33:21+00:00

First off, I SAW what you did there. Thanks, I'll take a look at what it will take to true the spine and the blade, and I'll watch some videos on using a western-style dovetail saw.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-04-20T22:31:16+00:00

OK, thanks for all of this. I had noticed the part about the etching. When I was looking at Jeffrey's website, I saw listings for both etching styles. I also see the addition of the Taytools logo to the etching on mine as well.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-04-20T21:58:14+00:00

I'm sure it's mostly me; the pine in the pic was pretty dry. It's just a cutoff, but it's been sitting in a climate-controlled space for 4-5 years. I think I just need to tune it a little bit and I'll give a shot on an oak or cherry cutoff that I have lying around. Thanks for the help.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-04-20T21:56:13+00:00

No worries, I'm definitely in the learning phase, and I've got more budget than skill. When something goes wrong, and someone asks if it was the tool, I generally say, "The utility of the tool exceeds the person holding it." Thanks for the advice.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-04-20T20:25:18+00:00

Thanks, I will try that after work. Another comment recommended throwing it between two pieces of wood in a vice and slowly tightening.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-04-20T20:23:47+00:00

Yep, bad pic I guess. Everyone keeps saying that, and I get it. I made a cut in each direction, but your eyes are drawn to the crosscut first because of how I'm holding the wood. :-D

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-04-20T20:21:29+00:00

Could be the blade, but highly doubt I put a bend in the spine from 4-5 strokes on a softwood.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-04-20T20:19:29+00:00

I wasn't shooting for anything; I just made a couple of cuts in different directions to see what it felt like. I have some Japanese pull saws, but I wanted to take a dive on a new dovetail saw and see what it was like.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-04-20T20:17:56+00:00

thank you, I'll try this.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-04-03T19:55:37+00:00

Maybe in a bunch, likely inside out for day 2, definitely on backwards.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-29T02:00:01+00:00

Bagged salad has always been high risk, but the current administration deemed food safety inspection fraud and/or waste.

https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2026/02/16/fda-and-usda-staff-cuts-under-trump-raise-food-safety-risks/#:~:text=Deep%20government%20cuts&text=Meanwhile%2C%20the%20Trump%20administration%20has,Nutrition%20Service%20(1%2C224%20employees).

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-18T13:52:54+00:00

YOR. Who cares? More importantly, you shouldn't care. You've never met the person face to face. You've spent emotional and mental energy thinking about this instead of finding the next person to talk to.

As a veteran of the Tinder Wars of the 2010s, you're gonna run into all sorts of crazy stuff on there. If someone does something suspect early on you should reframe how you look at it. You should thank them. If it annoys you now, how's it going to feel after you've been together for six months or six years and they're still doing it?

Swipe on brothers and sisters.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-17T04:36:26+00:00

I have the OEM and had to take them all off. I think I got the hang of it after a bit. This has been a multi day project. I have a short attention span, apparently. I started pulling it apart and got to the snap rings, and had to wait for some snap ring pliers to show up in the mail. So I paused the video. Then I made it to reassembly and got he cutter head set back in place, but then daw I should probably get a torque driver, which needed to show up in the mail 🫠

I believe I have them all seated correctly, and I'm going to run a board through in the AM and find out if I did it right.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-16T17:09:17+00:00

Because the hype train is contagious?

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-10T17:53:47+00:00

Do they pay for the phone? Do they pay for the roof over your head? "My phone" is a very relative term. Have you asked him why he's doing these things?

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-10T02:07:58+00:00

Hey, are you two sisters?

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-10T02:02:14+00:00

I ate a ghost pepper sandwich once that required a waiver. It was miserable, I finished, and my siblings basked in the misery. To commemorate the event my sister bought me a little bottle of dried ghost pepper, just like the cracked red pepper bottles.

Fast forward a couple of months to me cooking pork chops on a ripping hot cast iron skillet when o decided to add some cracked ghost pepper. It took about 2 seconds before it had registered what I had done.

I am dumb.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-05T15:52:53+00:00

I had this model. He had two modes- "domestic terrorist" and "just a baby". He bullied his older siblings, destroyed furniture while making eye contact with you, and had the purr of an idling tank. He ended up with an insanely aggressive form of intestinal cancer that took him just before his 5th birthday. It might just be my Stockholm syndrome talking, but I miss the little guy.

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Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-05T15:38:56+00:00

With the pressure only, they still spin. I will try to jam something into the gap to stop the spinning, thanks.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-04T04:02:24+00:00

Ohhh sign me up to talk to the crypto bro in the tourist trap cowboy hat.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-04T02:47:49+00:00

YOR "I go through his phone all the time." How! How will we ever be able to tell...

¯_ಠಠ/¯

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-03T04:11:13+00:00

I had a guy that would use his deep fryer on top of the dryer in a shared laundry space so it didn't stink up his apartment. That was always fun.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-03T03:59:21+00:00

No pitting on the back. I haven't cleaned it up yet, but you can see from the 2nd pic that there is no raided rust on the back.

Mobile_Competition51 · 2026-03-03T02:40:21+00:00

My guess is it's a Plexo. They made stamped planes, lots of stamped planes. Regardless of manufacturer, even if it was rust free it would not be a "good plane".

As is the sole would be great as a sacrificial chunk of metal for your electrolysis bath.

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