Short Blade Honing Jig

[Woodbloke]

Without please, turning this into an interminable sharpening and honing thread, the latest email dropped in from CHT and this new little Veritas honing jig looks very interesting. I struggle to hone very short/awkward blades such as a spokeshave (they haven't been done for ages) so this new little jig looks like it might be a solution - Rob

 

[Mike G]

There's only certain spokeshaves that will work for, as many have a curved blade, and some are sharpened to a camber. I simply put my blades up on a block of wood and use a little diamond file thingy running along the bench......using the bench as an ad hoc honing guide, if you like. But yes, honing guides are often a problem for shorter tools.

I'm sure this is a great tool and all that, but just looking at it I can't see how that's worth more than £15 or £20.

 

[9fingers]

But how do you achieve the Jacobean rounded bevel with such a jig? :lol:

Bob

 

[Mike Jordan]

I’ve got four! None valued at fifty quid though.

 

[Alf]

iirc the Stanley honing guide is able to deal with short blades. It's a PITA in nearly all other respects, but it does do that. I'm sure the Veritas is much more pleasant to deal with, but if budgetary concerns are paramount that's an option.

 

[Woodbloke]

I'm sure this is a great tool and all that, but just looking at it I can't see how that's worth more than £15 or £20.

Probably only a few $ to actually produce, but it's made in Canada by Veritas (so no cCc), has been transported across the ogin, then sold by CHT and all parties have to make their little slice of profit. Yep, it's a few squids but Veritas stuff is nicely put together and I don't mind forking out for this sort of stuff - Rob

 

[Argus]

As a free-hand-sharpener, holding small and short blades and retaining any form of accuracy is difficult.

Some years ago I located one of these inexpensive hand vices at (I believe) Chronos Supplies. They no longer have it in stock but here it is elsewhere:
https://www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery-T ... e-999-6834

Anyway, I find it useful for honing little blades, so I hope that this helps.

 

[TrimTheKing]

As a free-hand-sharpener, holding small and short blades and retaining any form of accuracy is difficult.

Some years ago I located one of these inexpensive hand vices at (I believe) Chronos Supplies. They no longer have it in stock but here it is elsewhere:
https://www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery-T ... e-999-6834

Anyway, I find it useful for honing little blades, so I hope that this helps.

That looks handy for a number of instances, and not expensive.

 

[Pete Maddex]

Even cheaper else where

https://www.proopsbrothers.com/work-hol ... 8887-p.asp

and free P+P

Pete

 

[novocaine]

I have 2 of these I use (not draper, one's, but it's the only picture I can find).

 

[droogs]

For those interested here is my Sharpening Jig for wooden spokeshaves and #71 router type planes

https://1drv.ms/w/s!An_F5-xpP08UqA_YTZX ... 9?e=smETfc

 

[DaveL]

For those interested here is my Sharpening Jig for wooden spokeshaves and #71 router type planes

https://1drv.ms/w/s!An_F5-xpP08UqA_YTZX ... 9?e=smETfc

That link doesn't work for me

 

[droogs]

I hope these work now

The below is my jig for holding a sharpening stone to enable the sharpening of spokeshave and router plane irons. The stone is held in place rotated anticlockwise at 25 degrees to present the side of the stone at a matching parallel angle to the bevel on the iron. The iron is held in place by a block of wood that fits in the dado with holes on the top that accommodate either the router iron or the pins of the spokeshave iron . The dimensions are dependent on the stone/diamond plate you use.

The critical dimension is that the stone is presented at the angle you want your bevel to be at so that as you slide the iron it is ground to the correct angle.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!An_F5-xpP08UqBqeDrn ... s?e=QI4TVh

https://1drv.ms/u/s!An_F5-xpP08UqBkiydI ... p?e=zUnLWa

https://1drv.ms/u/s!An_F5-xpP08UqBhzrkJ ... v?e=lCFrtl

https://1drv.ms/u/s!An_F5-xpP08UqBvHrsS ... 0?e=6JmPXm

 

[Dr.Al]

I get an error message saying the link "might be down or temporarily unavailable" on all of those links.

 

[Doug]

Got the Veritas short blade jig for Xmas & had a chance today to use it to sharpen my spoke shave blades.
Depending on which side you fit the blade determines the angle, 25 or 30 degrees.



It really is easy & quick to set up, the roller on the jig just sits on a small setting plate that has recesses, you place the blade on the correct recess depending on its thickness this sets the blades projection, tightened up the arms & away you go.



For a secondary bevel you put a supplied shim under the roller that lifts the jig giving an extra 2 degrees.
Really simple to use & easy to hold which is a definite bonus for me.

 

[Woodbloke]

Thanks for that Doug. On the Ax web site page there's one very negative review of a single * where the chap's main beef is that the setting isn't repeatable as the roller sits in a curved trough and the distance setting bit isn't attached to the main jig. I found the review very odd and assumed that the user hadn't set it up correctly so I contacted Tim Styles who'd also seen it and like me, thought it was strange. He's going to ask Jason Breach to have a closer 'looksee' - Rob

 

[Doug]

Don’t really see how you can go wrong with it Rob the setting plate makes using it completely repeatable unless he doesn’t realise one side is 25 degrees & the other 30, obviously the projection is different depending on which side you use.