 Setting up a jig to set up your honing guide, a three-minute overview. Hey, Ola, Woodworkers. Paul Carlson here, small workshop guy. Today we're going to do a quick overview of how to create a jig so that you can set up your honing guide for doing your sharpening of your plane blades and your chisels. I decided that sharpening freehand wasn't for me. I'm not good enough at it, and so I better go back to a honing guide. If it's good enough for David Charlesworth, then using a honing guide is good enough for me. See a link to a video of David down below. So what you're going to need to set this up is a nice rectangular piece of wood. A plywood is fine, so it's stable. Some little blocks that you're going to attach to that plywood, screwdriver probably, maybe a leveler just to double check yourself. You're going to need a honing guide that you've bought. The more money you spend, probably the better, and something to measure angles with. I have this little empire one that was not very expensive. So let's get started. How are we going to do it? So put a blade in your honing guide, set it at kind of an approximate distance, take your block and make sure that your bench that you're working on is level if not find a level one somewhere. Then set the distance, just something to try, put your measuring device on it, read it, and if it's digital it's probably easier to read. I should probably get one at my age. And then when you get it adjusted and at the desired angle that you want to set up your first little block, then without making sure nothing moves, put it on the edge of your rectangular block and then mark where that was. Now you probably set different distances for chisels versus planes because they set in a different place in the honing guide. So once I've got that marked, I will simply screw some holes, pilot holes, put some screws in there, and then I'll have a block set at the distance. So then every time I want my honing guide to be set up for my plane blade at whatever this is, say it's 35, then I push it up against that block and that's it. So put a number of blocks on here for different angles that you want. Slickest can be, small workshop guy signing off.