Saker chisel sharpening guide.

[woodtickgreg]

This is the cheap style of sharpening jig most everyone uses. I have used it for many years but I always felt so so about it. I didn't want to spend the money on one of the big names like Veritas, etc.
This one would always move when you tightened the clamp.

So I thought I would try this Saker brand from Amazon.

Its all anodized alluminum and it has a nice wide roller for stability and it is easy to set up.

So now you can see the 3 different angles on this chisel, it is now square and itll take awhile to get the other edges removed with sharpening. With the sandpaper method I use very little material is removed with each sharpening.

It clamps both my Japanese chisels and my narex chisels. These pictured are morticing chisels. I'm sure it will work excellent on my plane blades also.
For the $20 it cost I'm very happy with it.
When im done chopping mortices on the project im working on maybe I'll try and correct the primary level with some coarse paper. I do not have a very good grinder set up to do this so its all by hand.

 

[daniscool]

Looks good. I like stones. I never really liked the consumable aspect of sandpaper. I don’t use it on wood either when I can help it.

You might want some kind of wet grinder. A Tormek or similar. Flat over hollow grinds are so easy to sharpen.

 

[woodtickgreg]

Looks good. I like stones. I never really liked the consumable aspect of sandpaper. I don’t use it on wood either when I can help it.

You might want some kind of wet grinder. A Tormek or similar. Flat over hollow grinds are so easy to sharpen.

Yeah I get all that. But I'm cheap, I dont want to make the investment in all the stones or a wet grinder. Sandpaper on a piece of glass works great for me. All the grits are in one place and it only takes a few minutes to put an edge back on a chisel while I'm working on a project. And I dont have all the mess of the water. The project I'm working on now has huge mortices in hard wood that takes a lot of heavy blows with a mallet and chisel. I can chop out a mortice and then quickly put an edge back on the mortising chisel. I use a lot of cloth backed paper so it last quite a long time.