Modular honing guide system

A honing guide for gouges for honing a cutting edge of a gouge against a top surface of an abrading medium, comprising;

• a plurality of differently sized gouge clamping sleeves and matching sleeve housings, sized for honing a plurality of gouge shaft diameters against a top surface of an abrading medium,
• wherein a honing guide configuration for a specific sized gouge comprises;
• a clamping sleeve including an outer cylindrical surface and an inner diameter hole for fixing a shaft of the specific sized gouge for a honing operation on a cutting edge of the specific sized gouge, wherein the outer cylindrical surface and the inner diameter hole are concentrically located about a clamping sleeve centerline, the clamping sleeve having a crank lever projecting radially from the outer cylindrical surface of one end of the clamping sleeve, the crank lever including a sleeve crank pin interface located on its distal end projecting parallel to the clamping sleeve centerline, or the sleeve crank pin interface located on a face of the sleeve projecting parallel to the clamping sleeve centerline;
• a matching sleeve housing shaped to include a bottommost surface, a cylindrical groove formed cutting through the bottommost surface, the cylindrical groove having a groove centerline located above the bottommost surface, the cylindrical groove sized to rotationally receive the outer cylindrical surface of the clamping sleeve;
• a gouge guide body containing a mating surface to secure the matching sleeve housing with the bottommost surface projecting downward toward the top surface of the abrading medium, the gouge guide body additionally containing a support base member attachment interface longitudinally spaced from the mating surface,
• a crankshaft dial rotationally attached to the gouge guide body proximate the mating surface, the crankshaft dial containing a dial crank pin interface radially offset from the pivotal attachment location and projecting parallel to the clamping sleeve centerline,
• an elongated crankshaft containing a longitudinally spaced first and second end, the first end pivotably connected to the sleeve crank pin interface and the second end pivotably connected to the dial crank pin interface,
• an elongated support base member system attached to the support base member attachment interface of the gouge guide body for providing an adjustable and lockable sharpened bevel angle and skew angle position at the cutting edge of the specific sized gouge;
• wherein the specific sized gouge is fixed inside the clamping sleeve, the clamping sleeve is rotationally mounted about the clamping sleeve centerline within the cylindrical groove of the matching sleeve housing, the matching sleeve housing is mounted to the mating surface on the gouge guide body, the crankshaft dial is rotationally mounted to the gouge guide body, the elongated support base member system is clamped to the gouge guide body to set the sharpened bevel angle and skew angle of the cutting edge of the specific sized gouge and the first and second ends of the elongated crankshaft linking a rotation movement of the crankshaft dial to a uniform precise rotational movement of the clamping sleeve and the cutting edge of the specific sized gouge against the top surface of the abrading medium.

A honing guide for flat tools for honing a cutting edge of a flat tool against a top surface of an abrading medium, comprising;

• a flat tool guide body containing a flat tool holder portion and a support base member attachment interface portion longitudinally spaced from the flat tool holder portion, wherein the flat tool holder portion comprises an elongated externally threaded body with an outside diameter and a threaded body centerline, a substantially rectangular flat tool slot cut entirely through the outside diameter of the elongated externally threaded body, the substantially rectangular flat tool slot forming two short slot sides having a slot height with a shortest dimension extending perpendicular to the threaded body centerline and two long slot sides having a slot length having a longest dimension extending parallel to the threaded body centerline;
• a small holder block with a first tool supporting surface and a first opposing mounting surface and a first height selected to substantially match the slot height and a first length shorter than the outside diameter of the elongated externally threaded body,
• a large holder block with a second tool supporting surface and a second opposing mounting surface and a second height selected to substantially match the slot height and a second length longer than the outside diameter of the elongated externally threaded body,
• a flat blade dial comprising an internal threaded hole sized to thread onto the externally threaded body of the flat tool guide body,
• an elongated support base member system attached to the support base member attachment interface of the flat tool guide body for providing an adjustable and lockable sharpened bevel angle and skew angle position at a cutting edge of the specific sized flat tool
• wherein the mounting surface of the small holder block is adjustably fixed to one of the two short slot sides inside the substantially rectangular flat tool slot of the flat tool guide body with the first tool supporting surface facing the second of the two short slot sides;
• wherein the large holder block is slidably mounted inside the substantially rectangular flat tool slot of the flat tool guide body with the second tool supporting surface facing the first tool supporting surface of the small holder block with distal ends of the large holder block projecting radially outward from the externally threaded body of the flat tool guide body;
• wherein the flat blade dial is arranged to thread onto the externally threaded body and directly contact the projecting distal ends of the second opposing mounting surface providing a controlled adjustable position of the large holder block relative to the small holder block as the flat blade dial is rotated toward or away from the small holder block;
• wherein a flat tool is placed inside the substantially rectangular flat tool slot of the flat tool guide body with a first tool edge of the flat tool against the first tool supporting surface of the small holder block and a cutting edge of the flat tool projecting a desired distance from the outside diameter of the external threaded body, the large holder block is arranged to slide toward the small holder block by the rotation of the flat blade dial while in contact with the distal ends of the large holder block projecting radially outward from the externally threaded body of the flat tool guide body to a point where the second tool supporting surface of large holder block contacts a second tool edge of the flat tool to create a clamping pressure to secure the flat tool to the flat tool guide body, the elongated support base member system is clamped to the flat tool guide body to set the sharpened bevel angle and skew angle of the cutting edge of the flat tool relative to an abrading medium.