Honing Guide System Deluxe

VERITAS

This highly versatile sharpening system from Veritas includes both the standard holder and the one for narrow blades. Additionally, it comes with a straight roller and one for rounded blades, as well as the angle-setting gauge. Altogether, it allows you to perfectly and consistently sharpen a wide variety of different blades between 3.2 mm and 73 mm in width. An indispensable tool for anyone working with wood using hand tools.

• The key to consistent and fast honing is repeatability – and the Mk.II honing guide delivers it in spades
• Whether you’re a sharpening veteran or just starting out, this versatile guide lets you concentrate on sharpening without worrying about controlling blade angle at the same time; this makes your honing reliable, accurate and consistent
• The deluxe honing guide set includes standard and narrow-blade clamping heads as well as an angle registration jig, a straight roller base and a camber roller base
• The standard head uses a clamping bar that registers on the face of the blade
• Accepts flat and tapered blades between 1/2" and 2 7/8" wide and up to 15/32" thick, including skew blades
• Hones bevel angles from 15° to 54° and back bevels from 10° to 20°
• The narrow-blade head clamps blades from the sides with parallel jaws to ensure they stay square to the jig
• The jaws are also canted to keep blades centered and tight to the reference face of the jig, whether they have bevelled or square edges – it will even hold chisels that are triangular in cross section
• Accepts blades from 1/8" to 1 1/2" wide, holding bevel-edged chisels up to 15/32" thick and square-edged blades up to 11/32" thick
• Hones bevel angles from 15° to 40° and back bevels from 10° to 20°

Offering an impressive range of angle settings, the integral blade angle registration jig squares the blade and sets the bevel angle in one easy step

• A scale and sighting mark help center blades when using the standard head; the narrow-blade head is self-centering
• Once the blade is clamped, the jig slides off the guide
• The interchangeable rollers attach to the clamping heads with a single thumbscrew
• The eccentric axle mount lets you add a micro-bevel to any angle setting with a simple turn of a knob
• The straight roller hones straight edges
• At 2" wide, it provides a stable base for even the narrowest of blades
• The barrel-shaped camber roller lets you rock the guide slightly to hone a slight curve or camber into a blade edge, eliminating blade tracks when planing
• The completely predictable results this set offers for a wide variety of blades makes it useful in the shop of any woodworker who works with hand tools