 An introduction to setting up your new bench plane, a three-minute overview. Hola woodworkers, Paul Carlson here, small workshop guy. So here's what we're going to need. We're going to need a little metal ruler that's 0.5 millimeters in thickness. We're going to need a sharpening stone of some sort. I've got a diamond stone in this case, 12,000 grit or approximately 1,000 grit. I'm sorry. We need a higher level grit, such as in my case a 12,000. You might have eight or six or something similar. So the first thing you do is use your 1,000 grit or similar sharpening stone, put the metal ruler on it, get it nice and wet, and then you're going to place your blade flat part down on that ruler. Put nice even pressure and rub it and keep it within a half an inch of that edge. Do that numerous times in maybe numerous minutes until you get a nice smooth flatness from edge to edge. Then you're going to put it into your honing guide with the bevel down, set the distance so that it's for 30 degrees, tighten it down, and now you're going to put a 30 degree bevel on the other bevel. The roller down, nice even pressure, pull it back numerous times until you feel a little burr building up on the back edge. Then move to your 12,000 grit and do exactly the same thing. Just put it on there and pull it backwards. You do need to flatten your ceramic stones every few minutes. You then want to round the edges so you push on the left edge, push on the right edge and pull it back a few more times. So you've got a nice burr, nice all the way across, take it out of your honing guide, put your ruler on your 12,000 grit or 6,000 or 8,000 or whatever you have, get your blade flat side down, wipe it across once, twice in order to get that burr off of there. Then keep it on there and work it back and forth, making sure you keep it on the ruler. This is called the David Charlesworth Ruler Trick and that is what is involved with getting your blade ready. Those are the steps. Look at our detailed description or videos down below for much more detail. Small workshop guy, over and out.