How To Make A Plane Blade Sharpening Jig

Sharpening Jig on Bench Grinder for Chisel and Planes.

How to make a plane blade sharpening jig. I used it t. Indexing the jig The best tool for indexing the protrusionangle number is a square digital level. My sharpening jig is made out of pieces of wood which will help hold the plane iron blade at the correct angle of 30and 28.

You can just turn a knob and it will steepen the angle for you and create a micro bevel using the 8000 grit stone only. Good quality chisel and plane blades are very hard and as such can only be worked on by grinding and certainly not with a steel file. You sharpen the blade by regrinding the bevel.

Strop Your Iron w Leather Strop. I made a wooden jig to hold the blade at a correct angle so I could use my bench grinder to sharpen chisels and planes. Turn the plane over and see which part has been abraded away.

The screws are tightened to clamp the blade and loosened to remove it. Flatten Your Glass or water Stone. Cut the front and back side at the steepest angle intended for grinding.

The side is very important component because it is what you will use to make sure your blades are set at 90 degrees in the sharpening jig. Sharpen Bevel in Honing Jig Stone and Glass stone Use Ruler Trick. Wide enough to accommodate the rollers.

I cut a shallow rabbet in it for the blade to fit into and used five wood screws to fasten it to the jig. The main danger is overheating the metal and damaging the temper. Make it shorter than your shortest chisel blade here about 10cm.