ATLIN Honing Guide - Fits Chisels 1/8� to 1-7/8� Fits Planer Blades 1-3/8� to 3-1/8�

Me gusto mucho la calidad de la herramienta. Buenos acabados.

Read the instructions carefully. It takes skill and practice to place the chisel or blade correctly. Once you`re dialed in, you will get a perfect sharp edge on your tools. Great value, thank you!

A good, simple, affordable, eclipse style honing guide. I like that it will work with chisels down to 1/8”.

This honing guide is very simple to use and the instructions are clear and well-worded. The guide will accept most chisels types and plane blades. I tested it with an old chisel and a medium oil stone. It is important to clamp the chisel in the guide using pliers or a large screwdriver; hand tight will not hold (the instructions also state this). I was able to achieve a perfect bevel on the first attempt. Would recommend and would buy again.

Thanks to this guide and a set of cheap diamond stones (also from Amazon), plus some polishing compound and a scrap of denim from my sewing pile, I have finally experienced the pleasure of hand planing without breaking a sweat and watching transparent curly shavings emerge from my hand plane. The planed board is so smooth, it's ready to finish! I thought I could freehand sharpen, and yes, the edges I got from freehand sharpening were OK, but with this guide, my bevels are finally straight and even. The little instruction sheet is CRITICAL to read. It has clearly been refined over a long time by watching customers misunderstand or ignore their instructions and returning the guide or reviewing them poorly and unfairly. I had questions (why one rounded side? why does my tool keep slipping off?) and the instructions answered both (because rounded side = 1 point of contact = actually more stable, and you NEED to tighten the screw with a screwdriver, not by hand - I constantly forget this). I could tell from that little sheet of paper that Atlin is a business that knows sharpening, cares about both sharpening and its customers, and wants them to succeed. Not your average Chinese copycat mass producer of crap, although their stuff is made in China. Anyway, with the screw properly tightened, I was able to push and pull the blade and guide along my stones without the blade budging. And since the blade doesn't budge, I can apply pressure on both the push and the pull stroke, and grind away metal twice as fast. Game changer for a lazy impatient person like me. I get a consistent burr in seconds. I use a fine tip Sharpie and a try square to draw a line on the back of the blade, perpendicular to the side, where the guide should sit, so I don't have to measure every time. Come to think of it, I should draw that line on the side so it's not ground away during the flattening. I had no trouble with the guide wobbling, even with just one roller. Would I prefer a wider roller, or 2 rollers? Maybe. But all I have to do is use my index fingers to apply firm pressure on both sides of the back of the bevel, just above the stone, while my thumbs rest on the back of the guide. That keeps the guide flat on its roller. And I find that pressure points matter - the grinding isn't as good if I push anywhere other than the edge, so that's the best place to apply pressure anyway. Where I do have trouble is tightening the screw. It's hard to find a way to hold the blade in the guide at the right depth and turning the screwdriver while avoiding the roller, because if I touch the roller and it turns, it knocks the blade out of place. The best position seems to be to hold it in my left hand, let the roller hang in the gap between middle and ring finger, use my left thumb to hold the blade against the guide, and use my right hand to tighten. An actual complaint: this is on me for not reading the description, but it can't fit plane irons less than 1 3/8". And I learned the hard way that my block plane iron is 1". So, not taking stars off, but you should be aware of that.