How To Make A Plane Blade Sharpening Jig

Wide enough to accommodate the rollers.

How to make a plane blade sharpening jig. Cut the front and back side at the steepest angle intended for grinding. The main danger is overheating the metal and damaging the temper. If you would like to sharpen your hand planes in a similar way check out these easy steps.

Sharpen Bevel in Honing Jig Stone and Glass stone Use Ruler Trick. The screws are tightened to clamp the blade and loosened to remove it. Using the Sharpening Jig.

How to make a sharpening system. You can just turn a knob and it will steepen the angle for you and create a micro bevel using the 8000 grit stone only. It is 34 plywood and I used 5 minute epoxy to attach it to the jig.

Next I made an arm that is cut to a 45 degree angle at the end. To set up the distance block on the alignment jig I found the easiest was to cut a small wedge at 25 degrees to use as a guideline so do this before you do the final step. After testing I found it works very well and can sharpen a blade very quickly.

As a general rule of thumb. Check the sole surface again using the light and the straightedge. Make it shorter than your shortest chisel blade here about 10cm.

Sharpening Jig on Bench Grinder for Chisel and Planes. Indexing the jig The best tool for indexing the protrusionangle number is a square digital level. Strop Your Iron w Leather Strop.