Saker Honing Guide with Whetstone - Red Off-Center Upgraded Honing Tool and Diamond Sharpening Stone Set Kit for Knife, Short Chisels and Planes, Fine/Coarse Plate, 400/1000/Grit…

Purchased to aid in sharpening hand plane irons, and wood chisels. I swap between hand sharpening and using a fixture to keep the bevels in line. What you need to know, the fixture seems built well enough for the price point. It uses the shank of the chisel to set the horizontal plane. Meaning, if your chisels are not square or flat down the shank it will sharpen an odd angle on the tip. This may or may not be a problem for your application. Used carefully, and on good chisels and plane irons it will work fine. Cant speak to the diamond stone, havent used that much. I have my own stones.

After years of poor planing I researched this and was pleasantly surprised. It comes with two sharpening surfaces, and the attaching roller makes for a consistent flush and sharp edge. It can be a bit tricky getting the face perfectly flat on the stone, however the tool comes with a measurement guide that does help. After the first few strokes it can easily be adjusted and the result is great. I also use it on my wood chisels as well.

Got this to straighten out my woodworking tools. Consistency is beyond anything I could do free-hand, especially on something like a 6mm chisel where it's really difficult to feel a face registering flat. From flattening on 80-grit sandpaper all the way up to a 6000-grit water-stone for a mirror-polish, you can literally read text in the reflection, and it's dead flat; no waviness on the edges that sometimes happens free-handing it. I flatten all the faces then put it in the guide and begin back at the bottom of the grit ladder, 80 or 150 to flatten, then 1000-grit water stone and 6000 to polish. To be fair, to completely re-face the 1" chisel by hand took probably 2-3 hours and 5-6 sheets of 80-grit. It can be done with the honing guide if you have the patience. Once it's flat, it takes maybe 20-30 minutes on the 1000-grit just cause I skip a lot of grits in between; (only had low-grit paper and two-sided water-stone). Then 10-15 minutes maybe on the 6000-grit for a mirror polish, depends on the size of the chisel too. That's all for a full-reface though, once it's done, it's much faster to do touch ups on a secondary 30 degree bevel after the 25 degree has been established. In that 3 hours, the chisel didn't move once after it was locked into the guide, only thumb-tightened. It doesn't required much pressure if you let the grit do the work. If you really put weight into it, it might slip but muscle is unnecessary imo Would recommend that you go through all the grits in one go after setting the chisel in the guide. There's no real way to set the chisel exactly back in the spot where it was if you mess with it in between grits. You can get close but we're talking a couple microns for dead flat mirror polish and if you tweak it in between you'll throw off the alignment. You'll notice your polish line will be ever so slightly higher or lower if you mess with it in between. Might not be a big deal depending but something to note If you're going to use it on slab+low-grit, it helps to put a piece of tape or paper down to protect the roller. On a polishing stone, it mostly just glides without damaging the face of the roller. Oiled the bearings regularly, idk if they'll rust from being used on a water-stone; looks like the pin can be hammered out so if they need to be cleaned or replaced should be easy enough For me, it fit a 6mm chisel, all the way up to a 2" plane blade. A minor issue is the roller is so closely machined to the body that it can accumulate lint/metal shavings in between the body and the roller. It's easy enough to dust out but with a little more clearance is probably avoidable altogether. Only wish there was a jig included to set degrees, like made of plastic or such. I'm definitely going to ruin the instruction sheet with the reference markings on it, so will have to make my own jig for 25 and 30 degrees before I lose the instruction sheet. Small issues aside, it works very well so far. Can't comment on longevity. Hopefully it'll last cause I can see this being one of those 'if it goes missing I'd buy it again immediately' items. Do not even want to attempt free-handing small chisels again after seeing how accurate a sharpening jig really is.

Works well, grips the blade securely, easy to set the desired angle. Simple tool but does it’s job well.

didn't know what to expect but was amazed how well it sharpened my chipped chisel set with little effort.

Easy to use and does a nice job.

Received this today. I love the sturdiness and smooth operation of the guide. However, the Whetstone is very disappointing. I wouldn't buy the whetstone package again.

The basic function of the sharpener works well, and I have cleaned up some old construction chisels that are close to razor sharp. That said there is a fundamental design flaw that will often leave chisel edges angled when sharpened as the angle guide uses the backside of the chisel to create the datum for the chisel edge. I have a nice set of Marples chisels that I sharpened, and when I noticed the angle on the finished edge, I measured the thickness of the chisel with a caliper from left to right across the backside that rests against the angle guide, and the thickness varies up to 0.25mm. As the chisel rests on the angle guide on this backside surface, it will inevitably result in angling the sharpened surface. The only way to adjust for this is to manually shim the backside of the chisel resting against the angle guide to make sure the sharpened edge is laying absolutely flat against the stone. Not an easy task! Otherwise this kit works fine and will deliver a sharpened edge. Note that I also finish the edges on a 3000 and then 8000 grit stone.