Veritas Mk.II Honing System

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guide is simple to use and works well. It’s biggest downside is that it only handles blades up to 1 1 ⁄ 4 " wide, making it useful only for chisels. Tip: If you enjoyed this review, be sure to also read my review of the Veritas Router Plane and Veritas Cabinet Scraper! It seems only natural that a company known for its hand planes and chisels would also make a tool for sharpening them. The Another feature of the Mk II Honing Guide is that you can quite easily add micro bevels. Thanks to the eccentric shape of the roller, you can add a few degrees to your bevel with the twist of a knob. Japanese Honing Guide Other honing guides Whetstone Holder Stone Pond Drawknife Sharpener Flattening Stones

Not only for use with Veritas miniature tools, the system is also a sharpening option for other small blades, such as those used with the Veritas flat detail palm plane and other small planes. Comes in a French-fitted leatherette presentation box. Made in Canada. sled straddles the stone rather than riding on top of it. This wide stance makes it easy to control.honing guide is a simple and elegant design. Made in England by craftsman Richard Kell, it’s beautifully machined and is silky smooth in operation. Rather than positioning the roller at the rear, this guide uses a pair of rollers on the sides of the jig. The jig's machined aluminium base provides skew angle markings that are laser etched for accuracy and legibility. The skew angle graduations cover the range of 10° to 45° in 5° increments, and there are additional marks (18°, 22°, 28°) to cover the angles of popular skew plane blades. Not all the aids are all things to all blades. Japanese and European tools, being differently designed, present different challenges to the honing guide. Always take care to fix the tool in the guide at as near to 90° as you can. This is especially important for planes with a narrow throat and no adjustment for the blade. Of all the guides I tried, this one was the most comfortable to use. The large handles on either side of the sled make it easy to grip. style guide is the roller. Because it’s so narrow, you have to be careful to avoid tipping the jig in use, especially with narrower blades. But if you’re looking for a basic, no-nonsense honing guide, this one is hard to beat.

The guide features a range of adjustments that enables you to hone the primary bevel at 5° increments, and then position the guide for a 2° secondary (micro) bevel. It’s hard to find fault with this guide, but if I had to, I’d say that it’s a bit large and heavy compared to some of the other guides. This can make it a little harder to control when sharpening narrow chisels. Still, it remains my favorite in the mid-price range. The Veritas Honing Guide Mk II is an excellent tool, and a class above most cheaper guides. It can be a bit fiddly to set up at first, but when you know how to use it, you can get your blade ready to hone within a minute. This unique and innovative Veritas precision honing guide and angle jig set offers a fast and easy way to produce a very sharp edge on blades. Silicon Carbide Powder Honing and Lapping Plate Leather Strop Diamond Paste Honing Compound Honing Oil Tormek Grinder

sled requires that your sharpening stone has perfectly parallel sides. But for sharpening on a surface plate with sandpaper, where this isn’t an issue, this guide is a good choice. The second thing I really like about this honing guide is that it does everything you want it to do. Some other honing guides (especially the cheap ones) don’t provide a way to set specific angles, meaning you have to make jigs yourself. They also don’t guarantee squareness, meaning you have to test for square yourself every time.