Honing Guide

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I use this flat marble surface with multiple grades of sandpaper.

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Does not fit straight sided chisels as the internal jaw surfaces are in line with the upper surface edges, no place to register the back of the chisel. Had to spend a couple of hours filing the internal surfaces back. Unfortunately reducing the grooves for beveled edged chisels.

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I was not happy at all trying to sharpen my chisels, the jaws would not hold the chisels properly which in turn gave inconsistent angles. It works ok for plainer blades but not chisels.

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Just measure the hypotnuse of the set the blade to that length. I use 80 grit, 120 grit, 600 grit and polishing grits from 1500 and up. depends on the tool.

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Sharppening Chisels

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works well without slipping, grooves to hold chisels seem too small and so chisels are hard to align and hold

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I bought this to sharpen plane blades and it does that just fine. Works ok on a 1" chisel, but I had no luck with anything smaller because the small clamp area is not the right shape to clamp a chisel with square sides and tapered edges. The slot for clamping is for something with tapered but not square edges at all. Also the wheel does allow it to rock a bit with chisels.

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I use this so much that I own three, one for shop, one in tool bag and one in work truck. Takes the guess work out of sharpening chisels plane irons and is a great time saver. Cheers/ Mike

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It's somewhat inexpensive and works ok, the roller is too narrow so it rocks easily from side to side.It's a little hard to make the chisels parallel to the honing guide. Once you get it right, it works well.

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Practic to use.