PROTRUSION STOPS

All measurements for these protrusion stops have been taken directly from the manufacturers guidelines.

It’s perfectly normal for these angles to vary a few degrees here and there. Especially if the honing guide encourages the blade to be registered on the underside of the blade, such as the upper section on Eclipse Honing guides, and the Saker Honing guides, this will slightly alter the protrusion of different thickness blades.

On honing guides where the blade is registered on the top on the blade, either using a flat reference such as the Richard Kell guide, or using dovetailed jaws like the Lie Nielsen or Veritas, the thickness of the blade will not alter the protrusion and every blade should end up more or less the same angle.

But all that aside, what these protrusion stops promise is consistency. If your blade happens to be sharpened at 29° instead of 30°, which will make next to no difference in the performance of the blade. Every time you set it up using the protrusion stop, it will always be sharpened at that angle.

This increases the speed of your sharpening, it prevents you from grinding away unnecessary material, and overall it just makes the sharpening process easier.

If you have a Lie-Nielsen style honing guide, our protrusion stop will give you the options of setting your chisel or plane to 25, 30, 35, or 50 degrees.

If you have an Eclipse style honing guide, our protrusion stop will give you the options of setting your chisel or plane to 25 or 30 degrees.

If you have a Saker style honing guide, our protrusion stop will give you the options of setting your chisel or plane to 25, 30, 35, or 40 degrees.

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If you have a Veritas (Combo) style honing guide, our protrusion stop will give you the options of setting your chisel or plane to 25 or 30 degrees.

If you have a Veritas (Pair) style honing guide, our protrusion stops will give you the options of setting your chisel or plane to 25, 30, 35, or 40 degrees using two blocks.

A Veritas Honing Guide has 2 different jaws for setting your plane blade or chisel. An 'Upper' and a 'Lower' jaw.

This makes the Honing Guide more versatile for more blade sizes.

But this also means that when you set your blade into one of those jaws, you're adjusting the height of the blade in relation to the pivot point. This means you need a different protrusion distance to get the same angle for sharpening.

This is where our Protrusion Stop variations come in.

• If you only ever use the lower jaws of your Veritas honing guide, get the 'Veritas (for lower jaws)' Protrusion Stop.
• If you only ever use the upper jaws of your Veritas honing guide, get the 'Veritas (for upper jaws)' Protrusion Stop.
• If you use both jaws regularly and want all the angles available to you, get the 'Veritas (Pair)' Protrusion Stop set.
• And if you use both jaws regularly but only need the 25 and 30 degree angles, get the 'Veritas (Combo)' Protrusion Stop.