How-To
Modifying an inexpensive honing guide
All it takes is a file and a little time
Sep 09, 2016
Most of us head out to the shop to work wood, not sharpen. You’re much more likely to sharpen a dull tool if you make it as easy and quick of a task as possible. Honing guides make sharpening quicker because you can easily get right back to the same bevel angle as the last time you sharpened. In this video Bob Van Dyke shows you how he takes a $15 honing guide and modifies it to perform like one many times the price. All it takes is a little filing and this bargain-bin honing guide will hold your chisels and plane irons with ease.
Great lesson Bob! Thanks for sharing. Peace.
Thanks for an informative lesson. My problem w/ the new cheaper guide that I have is that the notches meant to hold the narrower chisels are out of alignment, which defeats the purpose of a guide, I can't see a way to overcome this issue. Any tips?
Bob - I want to build a honing guide setup board and I am looking at yours in the video and am curious about the function of some of the stop blocks. Maybe a future video. Thanks for the good tips!
I use then same honing guide and have the same problem. Thanks for the tip to fix this!