Saker Honing Guide with Whetstone – Red Off-Center Upgraded Honing Tool and Diamond Sharpening Stone Set Kit for Knife, Short Chisels and Planes, Fine/Coarse Plate, 400/1000/Grit…

What a time saver!!
I looked at all of these similar items and discovered this one had the widest roller of the lot. The roller runs on a smooth bolt making the sharpening effort quite easy. The angle guide is quite accurate. The product is all metal and holds even the narrowest chisel firmly in place. If you don’t have one of these gems now is the time to get one. They will provide a lifetime of accurate sharpening.

Gets chisel faces dead flat, mirror-polishing if you want
Got this to straighten out my woodworking tools. Consistency is beyond anything I could do free-hand, especially on something like a 6mm chisel where it’s really difficult to feel a face registering flat.From flattening on 80-grit sandpaper all the way up to a 6000-grit water-stone for a mirror-polish, you can literally read text in the reflection, and it’s dead flat; no waviness on the edges that sometimes happens free-handing it. I flatten all the faces then put it in the guide and begin back at the bottom of the grit ladder, 80 or 150 to flatten, then 1000-grit water stone and 6000 to polish.To be fair, to completely re-face the 1″ chisel by hand took probably 2-3 hours and 5-6 sheets of 80-grit. It can be done with the honing guide if you have the patience.Once it’s flat, it takes maybe 20-30 minutes on the 1000-grit just cause I skip a lot of grits in between; (only had low-grit paper and two-sided water-stone). Then 10-15 minutes maybe on the 6000-grit for a mirror polish, depends on the size of the chisel too. That’s all for a full-reface though, once it’s done, it’s much faster to do touch ups on a secondary 30 degree bevel after the 25 degree has been established.In that 3 hours, the chisel didn’t move once after it was locked into the guide, only thumb-tightened. It doesn’t required much pressure if you let the grit do the work. If you really put weight into it, it might slip but muscle is unnecessary imoWould recommend that you go through all the grits in one go after setting the chisel in the guide. There’s no real way to set the chisel exactly back in the spot where it was if you mess with it in between grits. You can get close but we’re talking a couple microns for dead flat mirror polish and if you tweak it in between you’ll throw off the alignment. You’ll notice your polish line will be ever so slightly higher or lower if you mess with it in between. Might not be a big deal depending but something to noteIf you’re going to use it on slab+low-grit, it helps to put a piece of tape or paper down to protect the roller. On a polishing stone, it mostly just glides without damaging the face of the roller.Oiled the bearings regularly, idk if they’ll rust from being used on a water-stone; looks like the pin can be hammered out so if they need to be cleaned or replaced should be easy enoughFor me, it fit a 6mm chisel, all the way up to a 2″ plane blade.A minor issue is the roller is so closely machined to the body that it can accumulate lint/metal shavings in between the body and the roller. It’s easy enough to dust out but with a little more clearance is probably avoidable altogether.Only wish there was a jig included to set degrees, like made of plastic or such. I’m definitely going to ruin the instruction sheet with the reference markings on it, so will have to make my own jig for 25 and 30 degrees before I lose the instruction sheet.Small issues aside, it works very well so far. Can’t comment on longevity. Hopefully it’ll last cause I can see this being one of those ‘if it goes missing I’d buy it again immediately’ items. Do not even want to attempt free-handing small chisels again after seeing how accurate a sharpening jig really is.

Easy to use
Works well. good width adjustability. A better angle gauge would be helpful. Not to hard to make a better one for your self.

Not very well made
If you’re looking for something that will provide a “just good enough” edge, and you are not worried about it being very repeatable, this would suffice. The tooling on this product is just not very good, which is probably what you can expect from this price range and made in China. The loose tooling allows the blade you are trying to sharpen to rest at something other than a 90° angle to the tool.I will not buy it again, and I would not recommend it. Just purchased the Veritas model, which is what I should have done to begin with.

Does as it says works well on my cheap chisels so will work well with all chiselsValue for money yes as it will cover a lot of chisels short or long and all standard plane bladesVery easy to use ie setting up of length to get correct degrees very simpleSize is very comfortable to use and product is well madeHighly recommend this product

Having used an oil stone for years, I found this diamond sharpener system and it makes it all much easier.

At last, a tool that works really well and represents good value for money.