Synopsis:Some folks prefer to sharpen their plane blades and chisels freehand, but Chris Gochnour is a proponent of using a honing guide. These guides hold blades at a consistent angle while you sharpen and are essential to getting keen, repeatable results. He tested a variety of guides with ...
It is desirable to make the honing guide and its blade bevel setting functionality useable with skew chisels. Many prior art honing guides secure the chisel or plane blade in the guide by reference to the longitudinal tool face surface adjacent to the bevel. This happens, for instance, in ...
I designed the honing guide to sharpen blades from spokeshave blades up to jointer plane blades. I designed it for only plane blades, not chisels or other edge tools. This allowed for simplification. The honing guide has a matching base into which it fits. There is a stop in the base th...
Option 1:Comes with original brass screws, which can be used to clamp blades, chisels up to 53mm width and 7mm thickness. If you want to sharpenmortising chisels, they are usually more than 12mm thick, so you will need longer clamping screws. We have the following new options for you ...
It can easily accommodate chisels as narrow as 1/2" and blades as wide as 2 7/8" and up to 15/32" thick. The blade-registration jig slides onto the guide body, centering and squaring the blade with an integral fence. The blade stop has discrete positions for preset bevel angles. It...
The narrow-blade head clamps blades from the sides with parallel jaws to ensure they stay square to the jig. The jaws are also canted to keep blades centered and tight to the reference face of the jig, whether they have bevelled or square edges – it will even hold chisels tha...