Dieter Schmid - Fine Tools

Dieter Schmid - Fine Tools Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 7 A - 10711 Berlin Tel ++49 30 342 1757 - Fax ++49 30 342 1764 Website: www.fine-tools.com

Overview Sharpening Tools To the Price of this Honing Guide

Use of the Richard Kell Honing Guide (Written by Richard Kell)

This honing guide has been developed to cope with narrow bladed and short bladed Japanese style chisels. Capacity zero to 1"/26 mm. The blade is clamped onto and makes contact with the underside of the two stainless steel location rods, these being the primary locating datum. How far the cutting edge projects determines the honing angle. For example clamp up at 5/8" / 16mm and the blade will make an angle of 25 degrees to the sharpening surface. Measurement is taken from the side of the stainless rod to the cutting edge. A strip of wood with an accurate shoulder could be easily made to provide standard angles in your own workshop and marked 'rough hone' at the one end and 'finish hone' at the other.

Angles dependent on the depth of clamping
12,7 mm	1/2"	= 30°
14 mm	9/16"	= 27-1/2°
16 mm	5/8"	= 25°
17-1/2 mm	11/16"	= 22-1/2°
20 mm	25/32"	= 20°

The hexagonal nut is meant for finger tightening only - not a spanner. The brass bobbin diameters are turned to plus or minus one thou inch and are selectively assembled to match pairs within one third thou max. difference, This coupled with the 'Ertalite'® rollers being turned in pairs means I have done my best to give you an accurate product. Two pairs polycarbonate washers are enclosed to cope with non-parallel chisels. An accurately planed piece of wood fixed alongside the stone is useful for extending the working area over which the rollers can operate. Since the early 1980's I have been making a bevel gauge which is a useful extra to use with this guide, also doverteil markers and new 2002 adjustable bevel, all in solid brass.

The new wide honing guide made by Richard Kell Takes even the widest Japanese chisels. Jointer plane blades up to 67 mm (2-5/8 in.) width. Take care that the whetstone is at least 20 mm (approx 3/4 in.) wider than the blade you intend to sharpen. If the blade is wider, use two small boards with the same thickness as the stone itself, fix them alongside to allow the rolls to be guided. Great for scraper plane blades. A bit unwieldy in cunjunction with very narrow blades. For narrow blades we recommend the small Richard Kell Honing Guide (See top of the page).