{"id":60,"date":"2026-09-16T08:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:15:34","slug":"axe-sharpening-jig","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/?page_id=60","title":{"rendered":"Axe Sharpening Jig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The axe sharpening jig below uses a vertically mounted drill press vice to hold both the hafted axe head and the sharpening jig in place. The sharpening jig is made of parts from a <em>Hapstone<\/em> type knife sharpening jig. It uses 6&#8243; x 1&#8243; <em>Jende<\/em> diamond plates in grits of 80, 120, 300, 600 &amp; 1200 to create the polished primary and secondary (micro) bevels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905_153757-2-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905_153757-2-768x1024-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905_153757-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905_153757-2-432x576.jpg 432w, https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905_153757-2-1152x1536-1.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905_153757-2-1536x2048-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905_153757-2-scaled-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sharpened axe head below, a 4 &amp; 1\/2lb Hytest Forester Z, has had a deep chisel grind (not quite a banana grind) and micro bevel completed using the above jig. It has then been polished using a 6&#8243; hard felt wheel fitted to a bench grinder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260906_152648-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260906_152648-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260906_152648-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260906_152648-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260906_152648-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260906_152648-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The axe sharpening jig below uses a vertically mounted drill press vice to hold both the hafted axe head and the sharpening jig in place. The sharpening jig is made of parts from a Hapstone type knife sharpening jig. It uses 6&#8243; x 1&#8243; Jende diamond plates in grits of 80, 120, 300, 600 &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonhanly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}