Popular Woodworking Magazine » Honing Guides http://www.popularwoodworking.com Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Tue, 21 May 2013 19:41:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Sharpening Angles for Dullardshttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/sharpening-angles-for-dullards http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/sharpening-angles-for-dullards#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:30:38 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=257379
Sharpening Angles for Dullards

The most embarrassing jig I’ve ever owned has been photographed, measured and pondered more than any single piece of fine furniture I’ve built. It’s a stupid little block of wood with stops on it for many common sharpening angles I use with my side-clamp honing guide – sometimes called the “Eclipse” guide because that was … Read more »

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Tune Up a Cheap Honing Guide

My favorite honing guide is the one you can find at almost any woodworking store. The guides are inexpensive and poorly made, but you can easily tune them up to make them work. One of the major faults of these guides is that when you tighten a tool between the jaws, the jaws tilt up … Read more »

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