Whenever I sharpen my plane blades, I end up with only the center portion sharpened. For my setup, I use a veritas side-clamling honing guide, and 1,000 grit diamond stone, 5,000 grit ceramic stone, ...

If you’ve done even a little woodworking or home renovation, you’ve probably noticed that hand planes don’t work very well. At least not until they’re sharp and tuned up. In this way, hand planes are ...

Tools lose their edge and become dull. That’s a fact of their existence. But it’s also a fact that they need not stay that way. Sharpening nearly anything, from a shovel to a putty knife to a plane to ...

Knowing what tool is used to sharpen knives will save you a headache when you find that yours are becoming dull. Most of the time you don’t need a power tool or an expensive knife-sharpening system to ...