How To Make A Sharpening Jig For Chisels

How To Sharpen A Chisel With A 12 Jig.

How to make a sharpening jig for chisels. Making a jig for sharpening chisels is an easy project that can better edge more comprehensive chisels. Its made up of four small plywood pieces a few screws and two bearings. Using the Sharpening Jig.

How to make the sharpening jig. I mark and cut the main piece again to make it more comfortable when sharpening. You can see how simple the design is in this 3D SketchUp file.

It worked very well in my test chisel and I think I will add this to my regular sharpening. First I cut all the hard plywood pieces with the table saw and make an adjustment groove with the router table in several runs. As a general rule of thumb.

The purpose of the chisel sharpening jig is to hold the chisel or woodworking tool at the desired angle while grinding or. Then slide one across let it cool grab another slide it across and have 3-4 going at once. Im not sure how short your problem-tools are but I imagine they cannot be too much shorter than a spokeshave iron--theyre more likely to be a little longer.

For me that was 45 since i grind most of my tools to 30. Ad Find Deals on Products in Power Tools on Amazon. Design and print out the plan of the jig that you need.

I need to sharpen almost all of my chisels and plane blades so Ive decided to make this simple sharpening jig to streamline and improve the processMore in. Cut the front and back side at the steepest angle intended for grinding. In addition to getting a better edge on your chisels you can also make a jig that will help you sharpen your plane iron jointer plane iron andor power shear.