With just a few minutes of work, you can create this honing board customized to sharpen your specific gouges and V-tools. This honing board is small enough to include with your tool kit, yet large enough to allow extra space for new profiles as your tool collection grows.

Materials & Tools

Materials:

• Basswood, 3/4″ (19mm) thick: 5″ x 5″ (127mm x 127mm)
• Pencil
• Red oxide rouge

Tools:

• Metal ruler or T square
• Bench knife
• Straight chisel
• Gouges and V-tools to be honed on the board

Steps: