Honing guide angle jig. This is my attempt at making a budget version of a honing guide set up jig. The ability to repeatably obtain the same angle is more important than the actual angle within reason. As requested this is how to make a protrusion stop for your honing guide to lock in the common angles you sharpen. Hone a micro bevel on fine stone by repositioning roller to higher position.
Guide holds blades up to 2. Deneb puchalskis angle setting jig pdf is a great tool for setting the correct projection of blades and chisels in a honing guide. Veritas the maker of one of the most successful and popular honing guides in the market sells a great angle setting jig. Your jig and place your blade while in the honing guide underneath the straight edge of the protractor.
Adjust the position of the blade to match the angle of the protractor arm. Use in normal position to grind a basic bevel angle. The angle setting jig pdf offers plans and material suggestions so you can assemble your own. Return to exactly the same angle each time you sharpen a blade.
Guide roller is on spring loaded adjustable cam shaft for setting at three heights. Kells 2 guide accepts blades up to 2 58 wide their smaller 1 guide handles blades up to 1 in. The resulting projection distance gives you the position for the stop. A companion to the honing guide is the veritas angle setting jig which lets you set the correct sharpening angle on chisels or plane irons quickly and accurately without regard to the tools current condition or bevel.
An indexing jig will allow you to accurately set the right amount of blade protrusion in the guide to ensure that the sharpening angle is repeated each time you mount the tool into it. The guide roller is mounted on an eccentric axle which can be set to increase the angle by your choice of 10 or 20 for very quick and controlled final honing of micro bevels. That jig served me well but tools would shift around more than i likedthis improved version of that older guide is more complex but the changes added accuracy versatility and clamping powerthe veritas is the only jig that allows you to set the sharpening angle with an included blade registration jigyou select the angle you want to sharpen at then set that angle on the included blade. This is a very down and dirty method but you will learn the basic idea behind it.