I was mindful of Ian's recent post, where he creatively - and brilliantly! - developed a way to hold his skew blades for honing, when I needed to hone up the blades for the LN #98 and #99 to widen a groove. These are great little planes but they need to be sharp ... well everything needs to be sharp ... still, keeping these little buggers honed is tricky since they do not easily fit in a honing guide.
Well I do not need a guide for them. They are so easy to hone when hollow ground. Takes a couple of seconds once the donkey work is done, and then this lasts a long time.
This is even easier on the CBN wheel-BGM-100 (Tormek guide) I use.
Set it accurately (apologies for the blurry pic) ..
Grind safely to near or at the edge (25 degrees on this blade) ..
A couple of strokes on the waterstones ...
And you get this ..
Regards from Perth
Derek (the enabler)