 keeping your bench plane sharp a two-minute overview by a small workshop guy. What are the secrets for keeping your bench plane blade sharp? There aren't any secrets. You just simply take care of business, do it. So to do it, what you want to do is you're going to just refresh the bevel that you've already created. You've got a nice beautiful sharp one that you created so you want to do it again at exactly the same angle. So if you've set up a honing guide with a little block so that you can use that distance each and every time, then you know you're going to do a consistent angle. So get it in your honing block, get it down there and flat on there and just drag it back just a few times. You're not setting it up, you're just maintaining it. So you've already got the cut there. Take it out of your honing guide and touch up the flatness using the ruler trick. So get that little thin ruler on the edge of your 12,000 grit, 10,000 grit, 8,000 grit. I don't care which grit, they all work. If you've created a little burr, then get that burr off and then get nice even pressure on there, keeping the back of the blade down on that ruler. Stay within the first few millimeters of the edge of the stone and quickly go back and forth. It doesn't take a long time, you're just kind of re-sharpening that little mirror edge. So now we have touched up our bevel, touched up the backside sharpness and we are done. That's how you do it. Now you put this away in the deep dark corners of a drawer. No, you leave this all out where you can use it in just a few more minutes. Do not put it away. Just keep using it and your blades will stay sharp. Small Workshop Guy, signing off.