woodbloke
Established Member
I've been using a Mr.C modified honing guide and the small 'bench hook' to set up the honing angle on plane blades, and it works very well, no problems at all.
However, when you come to do chisels using this method, it don't work 'cos they register at a different point, so I've had to use one of these:
which is a bit of thin plastic to set up the angle, which is very fiddly. I then had an idea that I might set a lump of thin plastic 'twixt two other pieces of ply so that the angle could be adjusted and held very securely with a 6mm bolt, wing nut and penny washer, the whole contraption screwed to a piece of 6mm ply:
So in use, place the chisel in the honing guide and tighten so it grips but there is an element of slideability. Offer up the chisel to the angle guide and adjust until the back of the chisel is hard against the plastic and the bevel is touching the ply, then tighten the guide. Final adjustment can be made by lightly tapping the chisel handle to get the exact angle (similar fashion to tapping a gauge to get the exact distance needed)
Seems to work well and is allot easier than using the green bit of plastic. The angle guide can be set to any angle and could have the graduations marked I 'spose so that a variety of honing situations could be catered for. The plastic is only quite thin so will easily fit a 6mm chisel....the 3mm chisel needs to be done tho' by a method far more Grimm :roll: - Rob
However, when you come to do chisels using this method, it don't work 'cos they register at a different point, so I've had to use one of these:
which is a bit of thin plastic to set up the angle, which is very fiddly. I then had an idea that I might set a lump of thin plastic 'twixt two other pieces of ply so that the angle could be adjusted and held very securely with a 6mm bolt, wing nut and penny washer, the whole contraption screwed to a piece of 6mm ply:
So in use, place the chisel in the honing guide and tighten so it grips but there is an element of slideability. Offer up the chisel to the angle guide and adjust until the back of the chisel is hard against the plastic and the bevel is touching the ply, then tighten the guide. Final adjustment can be made by lightly tapping the chisel handle to get the exact angle (similar fashion to tapping a gauge to get the exact distance needed)
Seems to work well and is allot easier than using the green bit of plastic. The angle guide can be set to any angle and could have the graduations marked I 'spose so that a variety of honing situations could be catered for. The plastic is only quite thin so will easily fit a 6mm chisel....the 3mm chisel needs to be done tho' by a method far more Grimm :roll: - Rob
