No matter what sort of woodworking you do, you need a quality straightedge. Power-tool woodworkers need them for setting up machines. Hand-tool woodworkers need them for knifing in joint lines. All woodworkers need them to determine if joints are true.

If you use bench planes, your core set should include three tools: a jack, jointer and smoothing plane. Used together, these three tools flatten and smooth surfaces, and perform many other workshop tasks.

Allow me to skip to the bottom line here and say that the Veritas Mk.II Honing Guide is the most thoughtful, accurate and well-made honing guide for sharpening chisels and straight plane irons I’ve ever used. If you like honing guides, you’ll be thrilled by this one. If you don’t like them, this one might convert you.

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