$75.99
The key to consistent and fast honing is repeatability - whether you are a sharpening veteran or just starting out, the Veritas® Mk. II lets you concentrate on sharpening without worrying about controlling the blade angle at the same time. This makes your honing reliable, accurate and...
Details
The key to consistent and fast honing is repeatability - whether you are a sharpening veteran or just starting out, the Veritas® Mk. II lets you concentrate on sharpening without worrying about controlling the blade angle at the same time. This makes your honing reliable, accurate and consistent. The Mk. II will set bevel angles from 15° to 54° and back bevels from 10° to 20°, and it will accommodate blades from 1/4" to 2-7/8" in width. Included is a blade registration jig which slides onto the guide body, centering and squaring the blade with the integral fence ensuring accuracy. Blade stop with discrete positions for preset bevels and three-position eccentric roller allows you to hone micro bevels quickly and accurately with a simple turn of a knob.
Features:
- Accurate and repeatable results
- Blade-registration jig slides onto guide body, centering and squaring blade using integral fence
- Blade stop has discrete positions for preset bevels
- Three-position eccentric roller that allows you to hone micro bevels quickly and accurately with a simple turn of a knob
- Manufactured from die-cast zinc with precision machined brass and steel parts
- Made in Canada
- Blade Width: Accommodates blades from 1/4" to 2-7/8" in width and up to 15/32" thick
- Bevel Angles: Reproduces bevels from 15° to 54°
- Back Bevel Angles: 10° to 20°
- (1) Veritas - Mk.II Standard Honing Guide includes the standard clamping head, straight roller base and angle registration jig
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Reviews
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Best sharpening system yet.
Best sharpening system yet. I did 30 chisels and only 1 slipped it had a Dimond shape. I use a pair of players and carefully tightened it. It worked perfectly. I only did 1 planer blade but it worked perfectly. I highly recommend using plyers but only 1/8 turn . Don't gorilla it down🤣
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Very disappointed...
Like some others have stated, the quality of craftsmanship is great, however, the design does not hold chisels firmly enough to prevent wandering and an inevitable off-squared edge/angle. At this cost, you should expect precision and repeatability (I purchased the deluxe set so my frustration of performance and cost is especially high). After hours of using this set for my plane irons and about 8-10 chisels, some new and others old and abused, I finally began to get a somewhat workable edge but that was due to going at an extremely slow pace and with constant fidgeting with the holding knobs. In my opinion, this set is garbage and there are many, cheaper honing guides that work better. Shame on Veritas, I would not recommend this to anyone.
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Poor design.
I have to agree with the last review. Nice quality but poor design. Double Cherry chisels are tapered but the guide jaws are square, which leads to poor quality of sharpening . Would have been better holding blade with my hands. I had to file the hone clamp to fit the chisels.
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Veritas Honing Guide Mk. II
After several uses with the guide, the design doesn't seem to be the best for consistent, reliable results. Because the guide clamps blades from the top and bottom and not from the sides, blades tend to shift as you are honing. After noticing this, I was very careful to align blades, check for square, and slowly and as evenly as possible make passes on the sharpening stones. This made the process of sharpening significantly slower. It increased the amount of work needed to get proper angles and sharpness. Even when you crank down on the thumb screws to get solid clamping pressure, the problem persists. The reason for using a honing guide is for repeatable, consistent results. But with this guide, that doesn't seem possible. The quality of materials is excellent, and the options for honing angles and back bevels is a strong selling point. But the performance is lacking. Unfortunately, I can't recommend this product.
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Love it!
The narrow guide works perfectly with the Stanley Sweethearts. To quote Mona Lisa Vito, it's "dead on balls accurate!"
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A Jig that acutally works
As soon as I got home with the MK II standard jig I went to work on a old Stanley No.7 and its Iron. The iron was absolutely dull chipped and in dire need of repair. I set up the Iron on the jig. The angle/alignment guide was simple to use and produced a square and correct angle with first time results. It took me about 20 minutes of honing starting at 220 grit to 2000. I could tell the edge was hollow ground most likely due to a grinding wheel because the iron was being sharpened on the edge and back of edge leaving the center untouched. Long story short, this jig straightened the blade and created a perfect 30 degree bevel and crazy sharp.
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Fantastic customer service
This is a follow up from my post two weeks ago. This guide is a solid, well made jig that does a exceptional job providing consistant and precise edges to your chisels and plane blades. My problem was the micro bevel feature resulted in skewed edges. I notified Veritas of my problem and they immediately sent out a new guide, first testing to insure accuracy. I got it in 3 days and it's dead on accurate. Further inspection of the two units shows the roller guide on the first very loose and sloppy. Bottom line, great company, great products, great customer service.
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Be adviced about micro bevel adjustment
Generally you can't go wrong buying a Veritas tool but that being said, sometimes they don't get everything right. the MK2 is a solid honing tool that is well made and simple and accurate to use. The problem with using cheap honing jigs is the setup to get consistant angles.You must attempt to set the cutting edge flat against a surface before securing the honing jig. Too many times I've ended up with another facet on the cutting edge because the setup was a fraction of a degree off. The MK2 eliminates this problem with their setup design. My complaint is in the micro bevel feature. While I love the simple turn of the knob feature, I'm disappointed in the results. I just sharpened a 1" chisel that has a micro bevel ranging from 1mm to 2mm width, edge to edge. While i don't expect machine edge results, I do expect more consistancy width from edge to edge. For the price I paid, I expect better results from Vetitas.
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Worth the money
This worked great. I finally broke loose and got some good chisels. I wanted to make sure I took the time to sharpen them. When you spend 200+ on a set of chisels you want them to be as sharp as you can get. This takes a little time to get it setup correctly. once you get that done its a breeze and is well engineered.
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Well Worth The Money
This is a well thought out/engineered tool. It is hefty, durable and easy to set up/use. The myriad of angles you can set with this guide is unbelievable. Its only con is a problem that is systemic to all honing guides that clamp from above and below: the ability to maintain the squareness of the tool in the guide. When using light pressure and easy strokes during honing and polishing this is not a problem. However, if you flat grind on coarse grit sand paper, like me, you have to check the squareness of the tool in the guide quite often - regardless of how tight you clamp the tool. This is because of the down pressure you must exert in order to get the coarse grit to grind efficiently. If you just go back and forth over the same path it might not be a problem. The skewing of the tool arises when you turn the assembly on the paper in order to use all of the available abrasive area. Otherwise it is a five star item!
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Excellent device.
Very good honing guide. It is a little bit expensive, but, as usual, you get what you pay for.
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Absolute best
This is the best honing guide out there. It is quite expensive, that is true. However, as usual, you get what you pay for. This thing has a large roller wheel which helps keep your edge square to the stone. The set up seems complicated, but is actually very easy to use. It is fast. The weight is a big plus as it keeps everything stable and the edge on the stone. All of those are great features, but what I like best is that I can use this for my spokeshave and shoulder plane blades. The cheap and poorly engineered side clamping guides don't allow this. This accommodates 1/4" to 2-7/8" and nearly 1/2" thick blades. Made in Canada. Buy it, you won't regret it!
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A requirement.
Easy to use. Great design.
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Excellent tool.
The best sharpener tool I have used until now.
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Great Product for Sharpening
It is a great product overall.
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Not sure how I lived without it-Love it!
Not sure how I lived without it-Love it!
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A must have!
I've never been good at using chisels or planes. I finally figured out that these tools are not "sharp" out of the package and need honing. I invested in good Norton waterstones and learned the art of hand sharpening and honing. Effective but tedious and tiresome. I ran into a fellow in HD that recommended the Mark II. I took his advice and am absolutely sold! This jig is accurate and easy to use. The results are amazing and repeatable. The weight is a plus in my book. It is hefty and solidly built. Once you figure out the best way to hold it it is comfortable to use. I spent six hours sharpening all my chisels and plane blades and the results are amazing. Redressing a blade takes only a few minutes because the jig is dead on accurate. This is a must have. It is well worth the price.
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Love it!
Bought this after reading reviews and hearing from others. Works fantastic! After reading about honing edges on sandpaper instead of stones, I gave it a try with the honing guide. I was able to get a mirror polish without once ripping the paper. Try it!
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A must have
Every woodworker should have one of these. I got razor sharp tools with no experience sharpening.
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would buy it again
finally can acquire the correct angle each time
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It works great but...
If you have several chisels to sharpen, I would suggest wearing gloves to protect your hands. The numerous tightening and loosening of the knurl knobs can really chew into your thumb. But that aside, I would have given this tool 5 stars. I holds the angle perfectly, very easy to setup, and the micro-bevel feature is very nice.
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Veritas MK II
I use this product in my stringed instrument business. There is nothing more frustrating when you're try to use a dull chisel, It does the job.
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I would buy this again
Sharpening chisels and plane blades
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Great for western tools
I own a lot of sharpening equipment - stones, machines, etc. I use this guide and the skew jig for all my western chisels and plane blades - anything where the sides and faces are all parallel. If the sides aren't parallel, the registration guide doesn't work. If the front and back faces aren't parallel, as in a Japanese plane blade, the clamp bar doesn't hold that well. That said, this is my go-to guide for any plane or chisel wider than 1/8". The roller bearings do tend to get dirtied up with slurry grit if you use it on water stones. Oil and clean them often.
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High Quality Precision Tool
This is a high quality precision tool hands down. There's no guess work. Check the angle of the blade to be sharpened, set the registration jig, insert blade to the stop, sharpen/hone to your liking and... perfect results everytime. I would recommend this guide over any other that I've seen. It may cost a little more than other guides, but well worth the "VERITAS" quality. Made to last a long, long time.
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You want sharp tools? Get this thing!
I doubt there's much I can say that has not already been said in other reviews, so I won't try. I'll just give you the boots on the ground experience I had. I practice the "Scary Sharp" method of sharpening plane irons and chisels with progressively finer grits of sandpaper. I have a no name honing jig that seemed to work OK, but I have been less than thrilled with the ability to create repeatable results. I don't want to end up reworking a tool when I really just need a quick touch up. After reading reviews for a power sharpening system I decided to give it a try. What a waste of time and money! I'm not writing this review to slam a competing product, just know that you owe it to yourself and your wallet to try the Mk II first. After messing up a few chisels and plane blades I put the other previously mentioned product back in the box and decided to try the Mk II after watching some video reviews on youtube. What a difference! This is one well thought out tool; The ergonomics are good, the fit and finish are great and once you spend two minutes learning how to use it you will kick yourself for not getting it sooner. And did I mention sharp? I started with the worst of the chisels I had previously attempted to sharpen. After about 30 minutes I had one wickedly sharp chisel! Thank you Veritas for making a great product. This is my first Veritas tool, but you can bet it won't be my last.
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great product
If you have planes and do not use them cause you can never sharpen them good enough then buy this tool.I was afraid to try to freehand sharpen mainly because I never did it before and did not want to screw up the blades.With this honing jig and some wet/ dry sand paper I was putting a perfect edge on my blades in no time.Do not let the price scare you it is worth every penny.
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Best so far....
Much easier to set the angle with this setup and holds blades more securely compared to others I have used.
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Wonderful guide
Guide is very easy to use,and sets up precisely square.Easy to produce micro bevel.
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Great way to learn how to sharpen.
Great product to get accurate & sharp tools.
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Effective
Gives a good repeatable result every time
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Best Honing Guide I've Used.
This is a very good honing guide, the best that I've used. However, I'm not sure the price differential is completely worth it.
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Works Good
For the first time I have some sharp chisels. Mine needed lots of work to get them to useable condition. Next time should more of a tune up.
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Great quality
A good example of a tool that has been evolved and developed to perfection
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Easy to Use
Sharpened set of Craftsman butt chisels and a new set of Narex bench chisels. I easily achieved a razor sharp polished edge with my DMT stones and Norton 4000/8000 water stone. This a great product for the weekend woodworker.
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quality and it shows
Never had a tool from this company before. When I opened the box I knew from the start I made a good choice. This is how tools are suppose to be made.
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Great honing guide
Easy to set for accurate sharpening. Brass roller wears when used directly on coarse stones.
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Great Tool Sharpener
Great tool sharpener, I sharpened every thing I could fit on it in a weekend. Sandpaper, Granite block, 1500, 2000 grit honing
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Worth ever penny
I want a simple device that I can use with sandpaper, stone or whatever I have. I don't want to have to do a set up. This works perfectly. Take it out of the tool box, grab an abrasive and in a minute the chisel or plane iron is ready to use.
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Well worth it
This thing is amazing. Solid, heavy-duty construction that feels good in your hand. The registration jig looks complicated at first, but use it once and you never have to refer to the instructions again. Comfortable to use. Makes a tedious chore easier, especially for a beginner!
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Works well for chisel and plane
easy repeatable set up. A little pricey but, stable to use
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Great product. Easy to use
Simple to use, and lets you hone accurately. 1/4 inch chisel is difficult to register. The clamping bar doesn't hold it down tight enough.
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Good Value
This thing works great. You have to be careful not to reach the index stop with the blade as it will nick your blade and cause you to have to do some extra honing.
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Must have tool for the workshop
This guide maintains the angle needed to sharpen plane blades and chisels. It is easy to set up and use. Sharp tools make wood working with hand tools fun.
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Works better than expected
First I sharpened an older chisel and it straightened the cutting end and gave it an excellant edge. Next I got a rather expensive block plane new and it came sharpened!! Well I put it on the sharpener and then found it was not sharpened nearly like it was when I was done. Also have done one plane blades and it works as advertised. Good investment.
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"WOW" pretty well sums it up!
[...] I'm a jeweler by trade so I know precision tools when I see them.The Guide did a fantastic job on my chisels and plane irons. I finally have shavings not dust and less effort because they Super Sharp! This is a Quality Tool !!Thank you Veritas for a Great tool [...]
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Gives consistant results.
Holds plane irons and chisels solidly. The wide wheel does not allow you to follow the radius of scrub-plane irons. The bulk of the jig makes it difficult (not impossible) to hone the back of the chisel/iron on the last lap to remove burr while still in the jig.
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does every thing you said it would do
does great job
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Masterfully Designed - Usual for Veritas
This tool is a honing guide to sharpen chisels and plane blades for woodworking. It seems to be a very good design, allowing one to hone a micro-bevel with just a turn of a know without changing the set up.
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A quality product that really works!
A tool that helps sharpen with consistant results every time. Very high quality tool
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Excellent tool. Easy to use.
This is such an improvement over the Veritas I jig and guide
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Works well
Sets the desired angle but can work no better than the stones you use to grind on.
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A Must Have!!!
After years of "coming close" to the correct chisel angle and ensuring the blade is at a true 90 degrees when sharpening, finally, all the guess work is taken out. The alignment system is foolproof. As I resharpen my tools correctly, for the first time in years, the wonder and ease of working with hand tools has returned. A short, but very comprehensive tool guide gives all the information and help you would ever need.
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All it's cracked up to be.
Excellent for plane irons and large chisels, not appropriate for very narrow chisels.
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great guide
easy to use guide for plane blades and chisels.
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So easy and so accurate.
With this honing guide in my shop, dull chisels or plane blades are a thing of the past. This guide is so easy to use and very accurate. A good investment.
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Well built professional tool
I feel like I can accomplish a consistant fine edge with the tool
