HG-4 Honing Guide

[@ionut5316]

That clamping system is not secure at all, narrow blades moves. This was a huge mistake made by Veritas with their first honing guide, narrow bevel edge chisels like 1/4, 3/16 and 1/8 moves. It takes forever to set the bevel and the process is not repeatable. I like to use micro bevels to reduce the time I spend with honing and maximize the time between grindings. Those micro bevels are a lot harder to dial, I just prefer stop blocks to achieve repeatability. The range of bevel angles provided by the jig stops at 35 degrees. Difficult wood requires a 50 degrees pitch. For this, the low angle planes requires 38 degrees bevels or higher. Bevel down planes usually requires back bevels (only Veritas sells high angle and low angle frogs). This honing guide cannot do any of it. No option to clamp skew irons for rabbet planes. Just too many limitations and way too expensive. I am fine with the LN honing guide, which is just a better implementation of the old Eclipse guides. This is why I like LN, they are not dicking around trying to reinvent the wheel.

[@MrOwen703]

What about skew chisels?

[@0102-w6m]

$214. However cheaper than Woodpeckers honing guide.

[@ryanketrow3602]

it looks to me like the sliding square was taller than the shoulder plane blade (this would make the square useless for such narrow blades), but the video was conveniently zoomed out and the blade never left the demonstrator's hand. Is my assumption here accurate?

[@NoWheyHombre]

I don't have the guide and have never used it, but I re-watched to see what you were seeing, and it looks to me like the pad on the screw clamp can pivot, applying pressure sideways into the square. The other solution would be to clamp the shoulder plane blade off centre, so that the screw avoids touching the iron. That is my guess anyway. I think this looks simple enough to use, much simpler than the Veritas device. My concern is that I enjoy a very slight camber with my irons, although I do keep my chisels straight. I like the camber to avoid lines while planing. The eclipse tool allows me to add pressure to create this (as long as I remember to count the strokes). This tool looks to be very stable with its wide wheel, which would lead to square irons every time. It is a great thing, but I would have to adapt my practice a bit I suppose.

[@paulbuffington9709]

I just got my Honing guide today. The screw pad can pivot. Also it has grooved channels to square up with the smaller blade shafts. imgur.com/ufHDceT