Ok...sharpening jigs

[DonSlaughter]

Jim,

Have you thought about contacting Crucible Tools?  Your jig sounds like it might be just the kind of thing they could help with regarding manufacturing.  Just saying.
BTW Thank You for contacting me!

Don

[Boatman53]

Thanks for the thought Don. Don't think I want to go that way just yet.  
Jim

[Boatman53]

So the elves were playing around in the shop and made this.

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Well the reality is I'm slowly putting together a nice travel tool kit and wanted a jig as part of the kit. The original was too big and being a field kit I didn't need all those features. So no skew blades, no Tormek only tools 2" or less only some mortise chisels. None of those were in the kit anyway. I haven't scribed any scales yet, still working out the best combination.

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Jim

[Adnick]

My biggest issue is with all the different skewed blade planes, moving fillister, rabbit, badger, miter, block etc.......several have different angles and they all have different width & thickness irons( several tapered ).

Next issue is personal, my disabilities include problems with my hands, have a real hard time using a Kell or Lie- Nielsen guide because they have little to hold on to.....

Grinding the initial correct skewed angle can also be somewhat problematic.

Regards,
Andy

mos maiorum

[Greg Jones]

I'm late posting this info on the jig, but I did get a couple of weeks to try it out and it is frankly an amazing piece of engineering, in its simplicity and functionality. I've never seen another jig that is so versatile, yet doesn't require additional jaws, rollers, angle jigs, etc., to operate. Likewise, I didn't need to refer to a manual to sort out everything that this jig is capable of doing.

I will say that I find one of the most useful features is the ability to use the jig on a Tormek support arm. I don’t own a Tormek, but I have the Tormek converter to use the arm on a Wolverine jig with my CBN wheel dry grinder. As a bonus, with blades of the same thickness and the CBN wheel, only the initial angle setup is needed on the grinder. As long as the grinder jig is not moved, all subsequent blades with the 1” projection will have the same angle ground on them. Slick, and actually much nicer than using the Tormek square edge jig. Once the blade has been ground, the jig can then move straight for use on the stone without setting anything additional.

   

   

   
(The stone was used as a background to show the grind-not to demonstrate that the jig was in use here)

I used the jig with BU/BD plane blades, skew blades, cambered blades (the wheels reverse to facilitate this), narrow and wide chisels (there are alignment pins for use with narrow blades), and mortise chisels, including the Veritas mortise chisel. I believe that Jim says the jig cannot be used with RI mortise chisels, but I do not have one to test with. I really hope this jig makes it into production at an affordable price point, as it is a winner.

[MarkSLSmith]

+1.  It was also a revelation for me.  I normally hollow grind and then free-hand hone.  Theoretically, this should be identical to using the jig to go directly from grinder to stones, but I was getting better results with the jig.  And it was just as fast or faster.  This is the only jig that would convert me from free-hand to jig use.