Thread: Veritas Honing guide.

How nice is that!

More often than not, loaned tools come back damaged or flogged.

It's nice to hear a story of it happening the other way around!
Thumbs up for handy brothers!

I'm going to give a shout out to my awesome big bro as well. He lives in the city and always has an eye out during council cleanup. Once he brought back a pretty well unused 60m climbing rope. Another time he found a steel tool box from the 60's. Sometimes it's just a piece of hardwood furniture.

My brother, my youngest brother, did his trade as an electrical fitter with NSW Gov. Railways.

He was always interested in mechanical stuphph and ended up qualifying as a motor mechanic and an auto electrician.
He also gained an electrician's license and welding qualifications.

Apart from that he is a really good woodworker and turns his hand to bricklaying, concreting and general building work.

Anything done by my brother is thoroughly thought out and he pays assiduous attention to detail when working.

He has had to slow down over the last few years as he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's but he still tackles things in the
same manner as always.

Yes, how nice to have a brother like that! Mine wouldn't know the front from the back end of a hammer...

Last night, I used the same guide for the first time to hone a chisel. Given the impressive result, I will first worry about the damage I am likely to inflict on a perfectly innocent piece of wood. At this stage, I do not think that 6-8 thau will make the slightest difference to the results I am likely to achieve with the said chisel

Yvan

Welcome to the forum Yvan!

Haha yep! That's the nice thing about jigs, they make all of us look good!

I still pull mine out from time to time. It's a good little jig.

No jig is perfect and I peridiocaly check the results as I used it. You can tweet your results by putting a bit of extra pressure to one side while your sharpening.
That's easier with wider chisels.

In my opinion, they will give you good results no matter your skill level! I would use them a lot more regularly but I find free hand sharpening to be a lot quicker. I'm consistant enough free hand and nail it the first go most times. The veritas jig however is pretty darn good!

well I'm consistant enough at the moment anyway! I'm still young but I have noticed my eyesight is not what it use to be and I'm sure my hands were steadier when I was younger!

Ben Dono: any climbing rope in the tip is good for wrapping birthday presents. You have no idea if it checked a fall (or more than one). If it doesn't look particularly worn sets off a big alarm bell in my head. Any application but climbing belay. Was it kernmantle construction or 3-strand?

The Veritas: there are days when I wish I owned a tool that I could use it with! I wonder if they all have the wobbles?

Hahaha, long time no chat RV! How u been mate?

Thanks for the concern... It just shows you care!

The rope is just fine! The back story was an angry x girlfriend did a cleanup and threw all his stuff in the bin. my bro stumbled across the guy picking up all his gear a few days later and the rope was already in the post!.
I tested the rope and it's fine! I'm comfortable on ropes and would not take the risk( nor do I recommend any one follow me) but it's a damn chubby rope and I did a careful roll test on it! Their is a huge safety factor built in to these ropes. I have hung my hide on 550 paracord before and I'm a heavy bugger....It worked in a pinch but I'm not doing that again!

Yeah my one has the wobbles as well.. Very slight but your finger pressure is on the very tip behind the edge and that's enough for the whole rig to follow the edge.. Sure you might have a slight rocking action but it's still going to do the job well.

Originally Posted by Ben Dono

Yeah my one has the wobbles as well.. Very slight but your finger pressure is on the very tip behind the edge and that's enough for the whole rig to follow the edge.. Sure you might have a slight rocking action but it's still going to do the job well.

I'm not sure that it makes too much difference. My brass roller has a nice flat spot where it got jammed one day and I didn't realise .... the diamond plate very quickly put a 1.5mm flat on it.

I still get matching bevels as I move from plate to plate (cast iron/paste), and the edges are as sharp as they need to be (damned sharp).

The cool thing about the flat is that now I get a rhythmic clickety-click which i can vary with pace and whatever music is on......

Other than that it's really bloody aggravating....