Have you seen this tutorial?  Seems to cover it all:

http://www.bob-easton.com/blog/wp-
content/uploads/2011/04/SelectingAndSharpe">http://www.bob-easton.com/blog/wp-
content/uploads/2011/04/SelectingAndSharpe
ningYourVtool.pdf

Cheers



-----Original Message-----
From: James Thompson [mailto:jdthompsonca@s...]">mailto:jdthompsonca@s...]
Sent: Saturday, 22 November, 2014 10:48 AM
To: Michael Blair
Cc: Adrian Jones; oldtools List
Subject: Re: [OldTools] First attempt at carving

I know how popular basswood is for carving, but I never liked it. It is just
a dead mud brown with no character.  I prefer to carve hardwoods. This
requires VERY sharp tools.

It took me a while to learn to sharpen my carving tools, and the most
difficult one to learn to sharpen is the vee tool. But it can be done. I
think I would like to write a little tutorial about it. I have read a lot of
said tutorials, but none really unlocked the door. I gotta think on that. It
is obviously not an easy thing to learn, and certainly not easy to teach, or
everyone would already know how.