Q: What blades can you sharpen with this honing guide?
It handles chisels and plane irons up to 3/4" wide, including blades from Veritas plow planes, detail rabbet planes, detail palm planes and the miniature tool series.
05P8520 - Veritas Miniature Honing Guide
We’ve produced miniature versions of some of our tools for years, and while they certainly have appeal as collectibles, each is fully functional. To support their utility, this honing guide is a natural extension, so that those who use our miniature chisels and planes can keep the blades properly sharpened.
A 1:3-scale version of the Veritas sharpening system, it consists of a honing guide and an angle jig. The honing guide has a die-cast aluminum body that rides on a brass roller and accepts blades up to 3/4" wide; the stainless-steel clamping knob holds the blade against a pad in the guide. The angle-setting jig has a 2 1/2" long base and a five-sided wheel that you can turn to a selected facet. You can use it to set your blade angle to one of the five most common bevel angles (15°, 20°, 25°, 30° and 35°). With the blade loosely held in the honing guide, simply roll the guide up to the wheel and clamp the blade. You can return to exactly the same angle each time you want to hone a blade, ensuring accuracy and reducing sharpening time.
Not only for use with our miniature tools, the system is also a sharpening option for other small blades, such as those used with our flat detail palm plane and other small planes. Comes in a French-fitted leatherette presentation box. Made in Canada.
It handles chisels and plane irons up to 3/4" wide, including blades from Veritas plow planes, detail rabbet planes, detail palm planes and the miniature tool series.
Set the angle-setting pentagram to 15°, 20°, 25°, 30° or 35°, then roll the loosely clamped blade up to the pentagram and clamp it firmly in place.
Grind the basic bevel on a coarse 1000x stone, then hone the final edge on a fine 4000x stone, holding the blade and guide together as one unit throughout.
This Veritas miniature honing guide sharpens real miniature blades with the same accuracy as the full-size version, despite its collectible scale.
Yes, it arrives in a French-fitted leatherette presentation box suited to storage or display.
| Materials | Aluminum body; brass roller; stainless-steel clamping knob |
| Dimensions | 2 1/2" angle-jig base; accepts blades up to 3/4" wide; bevel settings 15°, 20°, 25°, 30°, 35° |
| Compatibility | Fits blades up to 3/4" wide, including Veritas plow plane, detail rabbet plane, detail palm plane and miniature tool series blades |
| Includes | Honing guide; angle-setting jig; presentation case |
| Package Quantity | 1 item |
| Country of Origin | Canada |
| Warranty | Lee Valley Satisfaction Guarantee |
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Lead, which is known to the State of California to cause Reproductive. For more information, go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov (opens in new tab).
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Veritas Miniature Honing Guide
We’ve produced miniature versions of some of our tools for years, and while they certainly have appeal as collectibles, each is fully functional. To support their utility, this honing guide is a natural extension, so that those who use our miniature chisels and planes can keep the blades properly sharpened.
A 1:3-scale version of the Veritas sharpening system, it consists of a honing guide and an angle jig. The honing guide has a die-cast aluminum body that rides on a brass roller and accepts blades up to 3/4" wide; the stainless-steel clamping knob holds the blade against a pad in the guide. The angle-setting jig has a 2 1/2" long base and a five-sided wheel that you can turn to a selected facet. You can use it to set your blade angle to one of the five most common bevel angles (15°, 20°, 25°, 30° and 35°). With the blade loosely held in the honing guide, simply roll the guide up to the wheel and clamp the blade. You can return to exactly the same angle each time you want to hone a blade, ensuring accuracy and reducing sharpening time.
Not only for use with our miniature tools, the system is also a sharpening option for other small blades, such as those used with our flat detail palm plane and other small planes. Comes in a French-fitted leatherette presentation box. Made in Canada.
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