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- #415 in Sharpening Stones
Product Description
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
- Made in Japan!
- For sharpening blade of Japanese pull planes!
- For sharpening blade of chisels !
- Smooth and accurate sharpening!
- Revive the sharpness of your essential tools!
Not only for professional woodworkers
We have improved the honing jig to sharpen tools with satisfaction even for the first time by collecting many woodworkers' voices. Since the blade can be sharpened with both hands at a constant force and angle, even beginners can use it well with just a few exercises.
Don't you have a hard time to sharpen the plane blade or chisel?
Japanese planes and chisels are an essential tool for woodworking and carpenters' work. However, the blade of them is difficult to sharpen because of the unique shape of a blade.
This sharpening and honing guide enables you to sharpen these tools easily and revive the sharpness of the blade.
MADE IN JAPAN BY JAPANESE CRAFTSMEN
KAKURI products are manufactured in Japan by Japanese master craftsmen. While many other makers in Japan have shifted to creating products outside of Japan, we continues to plan, create trial products, and carry out product tests in our factory and are able to incorporate the fresh and new opinions of craftsmen. This allows us to ensure our high quality in our products.
Characteristics
Blade sharpener guide equipped with roller capable of fixing blade and sharpening at a certain angle.
Equipped with handle and realized safe operation.
With a unique attachment for holding a blade, it is possible to firmly fix the blade.
Fitting Blade Width
- Plane's Blade: 42mm-70mm
- Chisel's Blade: 3mm-42mm
Functional guide for sharpening blades of plane and chisels which are difficult to sharp by hands.
- Capable of fixing and sharping blades at a certain angle.
- With a unique attachment for holding a blade, it is possible to fix it firmly.
- Equipped with a roller for moving flatly and smoothly.
- Equipped with a handle that enables you to work without touching the blade directly.
- Compared to other typical sharpening products, this jig is much easier to hold and apply force more.
If the blade is chipped or rusty, use a rough sharpening stone of #400-#600. For regular sharpening, just #800- #1000 whetstones are fine. You can maximize the sharpness by using a finishing whetstone of # 2000 or higher. KAKURI also offers various sizes of the grit of sharpening stone for planes and chisels.
RUADOGWALKER
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2025
This is a good sharpening jig. It works well. It does not have the guide for setting the angle on your blade back to its intended setting. So if you have a mistake is tool may allow you to compound it. If you’re good at setting the angle by eye and this is the way to go.
KBailey
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2025
I spent a lot of money in a lot of time trying to dial in my chisel and planning iron sharpening system. I purchased several cheap honing guides and suffered. I was very pleased with this honing guide when sharpening cleaning irons specifically having to do with the rollers shape and the grip and finger leverage which lets you ever so slightly bevel the iron at the corners, (something I’ve always found very tricky to accomplish correctly).The only drawback is the difficulty in squaring the iron or chisel to the honing guide. I found that a sharpening guide from another honing set did the trick nicely.I wasn’t thrilled about the way it sharpened chisels especially thin ones under a half inch. Because Chisels are limited in width compared to planning to planing irons the challenge of keeping them square to the honing guide is especially challenging but can be accomplished with patience. The other problem I came across is on a thin chisel there isn’t enough surface area to grip and hold the tool firmly when applying pressure from the top alone. Other honing guides that grip from the sides in my experience work better for this use case.Despite these couple of negatives, imo, this is still one of my favorite honing guides and I recommend giving it a try.
Ivor.w.jackson
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2025
Great quality tool.
小林充也
Reviewed in Japan on March 18, 2025
やっとまともなものに出会えたって感じです。1000円から2000円位の安いものはやっぱだめですね。刃先を支持し、回転するローラーの直径が小さく、これなら安定して遂げます。刃先の角度やカンナ刄の幅、刄の出具合を左右揃えるなどは慣れが必要ですが、これは仕方ありませんね(笑)だって今まで適当に研いでいたんですから。使用説明書に書いてある通り、じっくりやっていこうと思います。
Andromeda
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2024
Good solid product and is well made, making it worth the extra cost. It works as advertised but its a bit difficult to set the chisel to desired angle. Once set, it stays tight in position helping to hone accurately.
HERVE
Reviewed in France on September 16, 2024
Très bon pour les ciseaux japonais. Par contre, le réglage est assez ardu, mais on y arrive.
john hamilton
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2024
This is probably the best "tool for tools" i have owned. This is simply, and flexible in application e.g., allow for slight axial twist of chisel or plane to achieve your precise edge angle. The wide roller does not gouge the stone surface, and you can work all areas of the stone with ease.
Arthur Kelm
Reviewed in Australia on July 4, 2024
Excellent quality, typical Japanese tool, always excellent, works really well with chisels, have used it , very happy with it.
ケン
Reviewed in Japan on October 2, 2024
綺麗に研げる。
JAMES R MARKHAM
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2024
I love this thing. Setting your plane blade or chisel in it square is a bit fiddly, but once it is locked in the wide roller and handles on this honing guide make it a breeze to use. I made some marks on the frame to help me center and square the blade. My old honing guide had a small roller and it would rock sided to side a bit - this thing is solid. Gonna spend the rest of the afternoon sharpening every chisel and plane blade I have :)
Charles E. Tilson
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2023
I really appreciate how it has a full size roller. It is also wide enough to work with many chisels and plane blades.The width allows the user to easily help with skew chisels.I received the guide. Then spent the next 4 hours sharpening my chisels. I grabbed my water stones and went to town and now have shiny, sharp chisels. If any one knows of a jig to help sharpening the gouges, I would be delighted!
Gary M. Cawn
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2022
There is a learning curve to using the jig effectively and it is no way near as easy as the video that I watched before deciding to buy the jig. I have a few other sharpening holders that work well for chisels and European chisels but didn't seem to work well with the Japanese plane irons. I spent nearly 45 minutes on a Japanese plane blade before I started to figure out to to get a good edge. Once I got a little more comfortable with the jig I found that it works well. I really like the tool works - there are pads where you need to put your first finger that make it easy to vary the pressure on the blade/jig when sharpening. I am going to keep practicing with the jig until I get used to it and can work more efficiently. If you have Japanese plane irons to sharpen and some patience, I think that the jig will be worthwhile.
Kindle Customer
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2020
Sharpener has a short learning curve after you watch the video. It doesn’t have a straight edge marker or guide, but you don’t need one. All you have to do is eye the level of the guide roller to the edge of the blade to set the squareness (hold blade-in-sharpener, blade up, at eye level), and eye the flat of the blade to the stone to set angle (hold both stone and blade-in-sharpener at eye level). If you push down too hard, the sharpener will tilt forward on the blade edge, so relax and let the stone do the work. Roller lost its shine after first use which is expected, and retained its straightness after many tools sharpened. Sharpener needed a drop of 3-in-one oil in the roller and clamp pad which is normal maintenance for this type of sharpener. Item exceeded expectations, far exceeding the standard roller sharpener that has an extended, adjustable arm in the rear. Sharpener arrived on time, in a sturdy packaged box with bubble wrap, is designed and built well using a durable metal and wood for handles. Yup, I’d buy this again!
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