Sharpening guide for chisels and planes

Presentation video: https://youtu.be/PRIsZAgjRP4

Print your sharpening guide for chisels and plane blades up to 50mm wide.

I designed this guide to get perfect sharpening of my woodworking tools, without having to choose between an overpriced but efficient and repetitive sharpening guide, or an inexpensive but more randomly effective model.

This is a tough, durable tool for ultra-sharp, precise, and repeatable sharpening of all your chisels and planes in record time. The sharpening guide can handle blades up to 50 mm wide, and up to 10 mm thick. It will allow you to precisely sharpen your blades to the desired angle, between 15 and 45° in 5° increments. All areas subject to stress or wear are reinforced with metal inserts and components. This way your tool will last for years without a hitch.

I designed this sharpening jig to require easy-to-find metal reinforcements that can come from salvage. If you have to buy them, I've held back these components so they won't cost you much!

Grinding guide features:

• Total height: 51 mm

• Total height at full opening: 63 mm

• Total width: 15 mm

• Total length: 33 mm

• Total length with adjustment template: 120 mm

• Weight: 100g

• Weight with adjustment template: 120g

Download content

• 5 STL file for 3D printing.

• 1 exploded view to visualize the position of the parts during assembly.

• 1 link to a private Youtube video that will give you the necessary information for printing, fitting the parts and assembling your sharpening guide.

Materials needed

For the printing of your parts:

The raw material needed for your printer.

A 3D printer.

For reinforcements and other stress resistant technical parts:

• 2 screws M4 x 35 with H head

• 1 M4 x 20 screw with CHC or TBHC head

• 2 nuts M4

• 3 washers M4

• 4 pins Ø 5 x 60 (if you don't have any, cut 4 pieces of 60 mm from a Ø5 mm bar or threaded rod)

• 2 roller wheel bearings: either new or salvaged from old worn out wheels (608 bearings).

For the adjustment of your parts:

Fine files, sandpaper, deburring tools...

/!Parts are designed to exact dimensions, calibrate your printer to best fit the dimensions so you don't have to re-touch all your adjustments!

• Thread used: PLA

• Layer height: 0.1 mm

• Number of walls: 4

• Number of floor and ceiling layers: 4

• Filling: Hexagonal 20%.

• Supports : No

Approximate data (total):

• Time : 13h

• Weight of thread: 50g

• Length of thread : 16m