u/MolderingPileOfBrick

I have a handful of blue-steel Japanese chisels, and have to date, sharpened them on flat stones by hand. I recently inherited a wet wheel sharpener and tried it out on one of the smaller chisels and while it was great for removing a (gasp) chip, it does remove quite a bit of steel. Am I weakening the tool or am I overthinking this? It's much less work, but I also don't get the mirror-level flat bevel that I'm used to.

The wheel is about 4" in diameter. Thoughts?

Hey all, I have the Comcast/Xfinity gateway in my house but the wifi signal is poor to the detached garage. I ran ethernet cable to the garage and tried xfinity's extender but it is capped at 50Mbps (will return it). My neighbor, in a similar situation, hung a router off his gateway and just has a different wifi network in the garage. How can I do a similar thing? I don't want to use bridge mode, because I want the house network to continue to exist. the (Apple) router in the garage is recognized by the gateway, but is blinking amber, meaning it is not connected to the sum of all human knowledge. how do I "bless" the Apple router in the garage and keep my house wifi intact?

PS: The house and garage are 100' apart and I don't want to throw money at a mesh thing if I have a perfectly functional router in hand.

PPS: the neighbor is out of the country for awhile, so I can't just ask them.

I did this several years ago and cannot, for the life of me, remember how long the climby bit is. I think I did two short pitches on a 60m rope; do you think it can be done as one pitch with an 80m? Thanks in advance.