Easy To Make Sharpening Jig - Woodworking - Workshop 

John, you are an inspiration. Your sharpening jig is neat. But that's not what is inspirational about this video. It's the tour of your shop while watching you work. What organization. What cleanliness. You've created a beacon to which a garage carpenter hack like myself might one day aspire.

Very good jig for beginners and machine wood workers. Sharpening without a jig is often a bottle neck for many beginning wood workers.

I just wanted to say thank you for the plans you make. I'm using my time stuck at home building a new fence for my small Ryobi table saw. I had to do all kinds of workaround to make it fit but well worth it. Stay safe, regards from Modernstring Iceland

I made your old sharpening jig a while back and i love it! This one does look more simple to make but it seems like it is a bit more difficult to get a precise angle. I guess once you have 25 once, the rest should be easy enough. Cheers, keep up the great content!

This is an excellent little sharpening jig, but it did take some tweaking to get it right, mostly due to my having to use it to sharpen my motley collection of Japanese chisels. Western chisels are much longer and can more easily fit the commercial honing jigs than my Japanese chisels can. This is because my chisels are spoon shaped and that makes them awkward to fit into most honing guides. Apparently they can only be sharpened by hand, but that's a skill that I've not been able to master yet. So, I built this jig from the pictures figuring I could modify it just enough to fit my chisels. Then I bought the plans. Probably should have done that the other way around but it looked simple enough so I thought I'd try my luck building it first. If anyone's interested, the changes I made are these: 1. I had trouble drilling a hole straight through the back leg (due to a bent 5/16 drill bit it turned out) so I used threaded inserts and M6 wingbolts instead. 2. I tapped the steel bar instead of using locked nuts to simplify the construction a bit. 3. Though I was super careful to build it as square as possible, the back leg piece wouldn't sit straight across on a flat surface so I adjusted my disc sander table half a degree and re-sanded the piece to accommodate for the misalignment. 4. I then found that all my spoon-shaped chisels wouldn't clear the clamp bar so I made that part extra wide (25mm x 3mm) and tilted the screw holes a bit in the blade holder so the bar would tighten flat across the chisel properly. 5. I also found that I had to remake the back leg piece 2 1/2 inches longer to get the chisel to lie flat on the stone. It is now a super-accurate honing guide and it has allowed me to sharpen my chisels to a level of sharpness I've never been able to achieve before. They can now easily cut paper just like in the video, and I've been using them to cut mortise and tenons into my latest project.

You look professional and easy too. Wish you lots of health

I've made every chisel sharpener jig you've shared and each iteration has been better than its predecessor. Thank You

Very cool. I really like the idea of building one's own tools when practical . . . especially when they're this simple. Your clamps are pretty-simple, too, and they replace $100s in manufactured ones. We are a tool-making animal, after all, and not just a tool-buying one.

You at work in your shop is sheer joy. What a beautiful and well equipped and designed shop. Thank you for that demo. You are like Santa on steroids!

a brilliant and genius idea, you who find this work must be quite intelligent, thanks for the explanation of your very useful idea ....

I really need to make this, my chisels and irons are in horrible shape. Thanks John.

Love the old reclaimed wood. Outstanding grain.

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Very nice jig!

I made something slightly similar looking for sharpening but it was an abject failure - looking forward to being well schooled here! Thanks John!

Another great idea, John. Your shop is super organized. How about a quick shop tour video?

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This is fantastic, one small suggestion though would be to make the rear brace wider and arch the rear foot wide enough for the size of your largest stone, then you would be able to use longer strokes for the full use of the stone? Great idea as always.

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Hi John, Great video as always. I made one similar from one solid chunk of 2x4. My slight mod was to add a couple of bearings, one on each end of the back piece to reduce rolling resistance. This also allows the bearings to roll over sandpaper with minimal wear when using the sandpaper/glass method. PS - Your mini table saw guide is wonderful. Great for small cuts and less cumbersome than a full sled. That is a truly genius idea from years ago and I use it often.

Great job on the sharpening jig John! Thanks for sharing it with us💖👌👍😎JP

Every time I see any RU-vid like this, I wish Woodpeckers would bring back their sharpening guide.

Beautifully simple yet efficient! Thank you Master Heisz!

I have been waiting for this video since forever John! Thanx and be safe>

I like how he creates jigs to create an entire workshop to create jigs.

This is all I need Thank you Sir for this great teaching

good job John.

I use a similar jig. Now turn it 90deg and Run the blade sideways down the stone. You will get a sharp edge with a coarser stone as the grind marks are Parallell to the edge not across it. I start with 220 grit paper glued to an old marble flooring tile. Then switch to finer and finer paper. The coarse paper tile has card stock glued to the bottom to make the first angle then when I switch to the finer stone I don’t have to adjust my jig. The secondary angle happens automatically because the tile is slightly thinner. Anyway that’s what works for me.

Great Video. Thanks John. Greetings from Bedford, UK.

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Very nice workshop I must say

Looks great John. Nice job

Excellent idea

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great project and video. The clean shop looks like an operating room. The homemade tool collection is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

It"s a good tool to sharpen plane easily and safely. Nice and great job~~

A very useful jig, great design

Great work! I will recreate it. Thank you so much!

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Terrific instruction John! Thanks for posting.

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Great timing for me. I was planning on building the old one but this one looks easier to do.

nice work sir..

Great work it is amazing the thing you can make surprised you don't have a wooden car

You are really phenomenal. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome John! Thanks for sharing!

Thats great idea

deadly sharp! congrats

And............. He does it again!

Great way to start the week, thank you!

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I love watching your videos! Sadly I am limited in my tool selection, just a circular saw, chop saw, and a drill. I’d love to sharpen my chisels and wonder if you or anyone else has any tips on how to go about this with the tools I have.

well done.

Great jig !!!

Very good thank for sharing

And I just paid a wad of money for one of those fancy ball bearing jigs made out of brass and stainless steel! My bad! Nice design John.

I usually check chisel sharpness by seeing how easy I can stab through my neighbor's hand when he comes around asking to borrow tools again.

so any time you bump the back foot you lose your angle? and all your stones/paper need to be precisely the same height off the table or the angles won't match? sorry to say I just don't get it.

Brilliant

Build it John build it---

I have a store bought one that i use now but it is a great idea if one does not.

Vintage 2x4 :D 👍

Hi John, I hope you and your family are doing well and are staying safe. So I purchased the plans for this and have the build almost completed. However I am a little confused with making sure I have the angles correct. I am completely new to woodworking so this may seem simpleton but I ask you to please humor me and help LOL. The front of the side legs and the blade holder are angled at 25° So I get that, but where does the back leg need to be positioned to ensure that 25°? Also, when switching to 30° for the secondary bevel how do I gauge that? Is there a tool or something I use to set the correct angle each time I adjust the back leg? If this is addressed in the plans I may have missed it so please point me to where, otherwise again I would appreciate your help. Thanks for all the great videos, I love your ingenuity!!

I love your tools :)

Thanks for sharing that, well done

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Built the old one several years ago. Use it regularly. Don't know that I will build the new one.

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Hey John. Do you have an article or video on your garbage can separator/dust collector

Did you make that jointer??

Hi John I assumme it will work on a diamond stone as well

Sometimes when i sharpen my chisels i don't find the heart to use them so not to dull the edge , funny.

I've never used a secondary bevel. Is there any other advantage other than sharpening.

What kind of blade was that? Looked great! Speaking of ... Any advice on blade cleaning?

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do you have a video on your cyclone? 1:37

Simple, effective and almost idiot proof. Sounds like the jig for me.

Can someone outside the states enter?

You make it look too easy with all that kit you have .i am just a diy guy and I don’t have all this gear so how can I make all this although it is good

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To think I spend $65 on a machined brass jig. Facepalm

Love almost everything you make... but this. No fine adjustment. No way to lock angle in or to repeat the angle again and again. Wing nuts are not precise anchors or locks. No roller guide. No precise way to square the blade to the stone. Not going to screw up my planes trying to mess with this jig. Hard pass.

Бестолковая трата времени, гриндер для этого есть, а потом всё равно доводит без этой геморойной приблуды

1:26 WHAT... you mean you dont have a home made Planer?? Psshht... that's it... I'm unsubbing!! HAHAHA!!