It will require you fuss with your pressure a little to get a more accurate grind, but if your are sharpening free-hand and not Paul Sellers, then this will drastically change your tools for the sharper.

Although I am effective free hand honing chisels and plane irons, this guide renders more consistent results allowing me to polish the whole ground edge, which holds sharp longer and brings pearing to a cleaner and safer standard

This jig is a necessity for me as my span of attention has not allowed me to learn how to sharpen free-hand.

Makes getting a sharp edge in chisels and plane blades easier if you have trouble free handing.

Plane irons and chizels, you can try to hold the angle free hand

This is a free hand honing guide so the degree chart and how to achieve then was much appreciated in the instructions.

I been free handing my chisels, and after using this on one of

What a difference using a guide like this compared to trying to free-hand it.

It's simply safer and more accurate for me to do it free hand.

(I finish them free hand to create a small rounding)

no jig is going to perform miracles, it still takes practice and steady hands

but it was much better than free handing

This tool is better than free handing but not much

I did not realize how poor my free hand sharpening was

Free hand honing is not cutting it for me

i thought i was pretty good at free hand

While it is true that this guide yielded, for me, leas than perfectly square results, it is much better than my free hand attempts

The directions were very clear, easy to follow, and I have started fixing up some chisels I had been sharpening free hand (and it showed, not pretty).

hoping this will help me keep my wood working chisels accurate as my hands are not as steady as they once were

All of my chisels have been free-hand sharpened for years and the bevels aren't something that can be set with a jig.

I had previously sharpened my plane irons free hand on my diamond plates and thought I did okay

I tried free hand sharpening first on some cheap chisels and got decent results

But it's skinny, so it takes a steady hand to keep from rocking the blade on the stone as you're trying to work the entire surface

works great and definitely is a huge improvement over my attempts at free hand...tool has a solid feel, and seems to be well made