Hello to all!
Hoping someone here can offer guidance / ideas for holding mini plane irons in a General Tools Chisel & Plane Iron Sharpener. It's not the best guide, but works decently will for normal sized irons -- however, due to the clamping mechanism (pic attached) I cannot for the life of me figure out how to hold these tiny irons.
I bought a couple sets of these mini planes at Harbor Freight, mostly for work on instruments, and like any HF tool, they need some fine tuning.
The irons are tiny (approx. 2 7/8" by 1/2" by 1/16", pics also attached) and the clamp is far too big to allow enough length for the edge to touch the stone / paper.
I've tried fashioning a couple of jigs with utter failure, but I KNOW there has to be a way.
I've already tried hand-sharpening, which was quite successful -- in removing a fair amount of knuckle skin.
:-)
I can't afford a better guide at the moment, and the wooden ones I made worked okay-ish but sanded the bottom of the tool more than the iron.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Cheers,
Jo