Low-Angle Jack Plane Sharpening

I bought a low-angle jack plane a while back. I have yet to really put it to work, partly because I didn't have a great work surface, but also because when I was testing it out I found that it was digging in a bit on the edges.  I decided to sharpen it and slightly round out the corners of the iron while I was at it.

The first order of business was soaking my water stone for a few minutes. I just used a bread tin for that.

I used one of the stones from my Spyderco tri-angle knife sharpening set to round out the corners of the iron.

Here's the detail. You can see I didn't take too much off.

Then I set about sharpening the edge. First on the 1000 grit:

Then on the 4000 grit:

The finished product.

Next up: modifying an IKEA table to serve as my workbench.

Andrew: He Gets Things Done