I find it impossible to keep a consistent angle without a device like this. This one is well-made.

This replaced a cheap honing guide I obtained with a sharpening kit. This honing guide is very well cut, holds chisels and bench plane blades very tight and square, and the threads for the tightening rod are well cut and very smooth. I believe this will last years. Very happy with this product.

Afilador de gran calidad y precisión, muy recomendable. para las cuchillas anchas asegurarse que quedan bien sujetas a las pestañas superiores del afilador.

I have been needing some form of jig for sharpening my woodworking tools. I have seen others use similar models to this but the image and description for this led me to believe it was constructed significantly better, the price backed that impression up. I have been burned before with misleading listings so i was apprehensive, but i went for it and was rewarded this time.The product is solid stainless, all the edges line up perfectly and are very nicely rounded so not to be harsh to handle.There is no paint on the body to chip or peel from rubbing against the hardened steel tools it is made to grip.The whole tool comes in one of those plastic rectangular tubes that endmills or nice drill bits come in which makes a great way to store it with sharpening stones while protecting the jig from stone dust gathering on the mechanism as well as protecting the stones from a hunk of steel bumping around potentially chipping them.The knurling on the brass knob is really grippy and nice to use. They also have a nice set of flats to use the included wrench on in order to extra tighten the whole assembly when needed; though in my experience there isn't usually the need to do this and being brass, the knob will get chewed up if the wrench is misaligned and cams off, so probably best to limit using it to when your fingers can't get it.The screw and threads are really well formed and move the mechanism smoothly along the polished guide rails. the wheel is nice and on sealed little bearings which look like they could be replaced if they needed to be.Using this jig can be a bit finikey for the uninitiated but is an intuitive concept and quite effective. setting the angle of the bevel is done by measuring the amount of tool sticking out of the jig, so an appropriate measuring tool is required to set a desired angle accurately. the tool comes with a little guide with some common bevel angles conveniently converted to stick-out in millimeters. once set and tightened i've tested it with plane irons and chisels successfully. I found that for regrinding the bevel for a chisel was fastest when starting on some sandpaper set on a mirror before actually getting to the sharpening on stones.On sharpening with stones, you do get limited to about half the length of your standard water stone by the necessity of the wheel riding on the back half of the stone. So i'd recommend occasionally rotating the stone 180 degrees to even out the wear.The tool does pick up stone dust in the mechanism so in order to prevent the action from getting sloppy there does need to be some cleanup after use.Altogether I couldn't be happier. this tool will likely outlast me and I am so excited to have properly sharpened tools for once. "a sharp tool is a safe tool"

I can't decide if I should have dropped a star just because it didn't work for my situation. It is really a 5 star tool. It just has what I would think is an obvious limitation: it can't easily hold a chisel with a tapered bevel.I think the product could just be slightly better with an add-on that could be 2 inside spacer/adapters to fit a broader variety (almost all) chisels.The tool is excellent quality, size, packaging, instructions and it works excellent for tools without a tapered bevel on the top. It isn't the cheapest version but, it is well worth the extra for the quality of build.Since the tool is not tapered (why and how could it ever be and fit every taper possible?) it just doesn't work well to get a square edge for those chisels which are the majority of my collection. I get why the inside faces of the tool are beveled (cross section example: /________) as many chisels are beveled. But for many of my chisels that have a compound bevel + taper from cutting edge back to handle, it would have been better to have flat sides for the tool for that situation. |_________|. That would take out the tapered bevel from the equation and facilitate clamping square to the sharpening edge.I like the guide so much I'm going to try to make some 'spacers' (3D print or just hit some square stock with a sanding block until I match the tools bevel) that will 'take the bevel out' of the sides so it better holds my chisels.What would be GREAT is if the manufacturer made such spacers that you could insert and basically make the inside edges square vs. beveled, it would be a perfect product IMO. Maybe someone will make these things and start selling them...haha.Maybe there's a trick that I don't know to hold my chisels and as such, maybe I unfairly dropped a star in my ignorance.Hopefully, this makes sense and helps with your purchase.