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Honing Guided Sharpening System with Extra Large Brass Roller is a simple-to-use tool that will assist you in securely holding wood chisels and plane irons at the correct angle to the sharpening stone.
This is so much better than those cheap sandwich sharpening guides with the small roller!
Made from aluminum, this sharpening jig has an extra wide roller to ensure your sharpening is square to the blade without any rocking as you roll back and forth.
With notched hash marks it is east to sharpen any of your straight, skewed and works with extra large to extra small blades.
Tips:
When you receive the guide remove the clamping mechanism completely. Take the backing off the rubber adhesive and stick to it to the removable clamping mechanism. Use the screws to locate it and clamp it down to make the rubber stick to the moveable piece more securely.
Use your combo square to check for square on the leading edge and use the hash marks for center locating and quick alignment
To set different angles of skew chisels you can use a bevel gauge to reference the skew in the chisel.
United StatesI'm very new to sharpening hand tools, and I did find it a little fiddly at first. However, I figured out a good system pretty quickly. First, get yourself a plane iron. I used a digital angle finder to set it to around 30 degrees. Square it up using a small combo square per the instructions (tighten things up a bit to make it move less), recheck the angle, then make a protrusion stop using the iron as a guide (Matt Estlea has a good video on how to do this, it's very easy). Once you have that setting up this honing guide becomes MUCH easier. I found most of my chisels and plane irons ended up automatically square using the protrusion stop, and those that didn't did not have a square edge to begin with because I had tried to hand sharpen them first. After sharpening them properly they ended up square, shiny, and wonderfully sharp. Highly recommend this product.
United StatesIt's a bit fiddly to get everything aligned and square, but once you do it works so much better than the alternative. It's also the first jig I've found that (just barely) holds the blade for my Stanley spokeshave at 30°, which is a huge benefit. It was so tedious to get things aligned and straight with only 2 hands that I designed a 3d printable jig to make the process a lot easier. I can't put a link here, so search your favorite 3d printer files site for "kmtools alignment jig" to find the free files for download.
United StatesHuge improvement to the standard sharpening jig.
United StatesSimple to set up and use for accuracy and precision.
United StatesOverall it is good. The only complaint is the nylon piece has the gate on the front which kept the guide from sitting flush up against my preset angle template thing. I cut it off with the chisel I was about to sharpen. It also looks like they are running the injection molder to fast and it isn't packing out completely leaving sinks in a couple areas.
