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Every now and then I need a simple jig for something and sometimes that jig turns out to be pretty ugly!! If there was a contest, this would be my entry!

I have some sharpening stones (water type) and have tried a number of ways to hold them while using them - with most of my attempts being unsuccessful. With my push to use hand tools more often, I really, really need to keep my planes/chisels/whatever sharp(er) and, in a burst of frustration, I grabbed some crud wood and threw together a frame to hold my two stones in a vise and keep them from moving around. This is the result (painted with with some left over interior latex paint):

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I took a piece of some sort of composite board, cut some pieces of trim board to size and build a 'wall' around the stones to hold them and then just glued the wood down (Titebond - no nails, no screws - just the holding power of the glue). Here is a picture with the trim pieces glued in place:

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The board has a short 'fin' on the back which is dropped into the vise to hold everything in place - this shows the final part without the stones and shows the back side.

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Ugly!! But effective. I may build another one sometime but this gets me back to 'funner' projects.

If it works, it ain't ugly!;)

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Or, my version.

If it's ugly and works, it ain't ugly!

(Sorry, JPG.)

steve

I have some that I have made that would not want anyone to see, but they worked for what I needed at the time.