The Veritas MKII honing guide is a wonderful help at the sharpening station, but there are some things I don't like about it. The blade projection guide that comes with it is a little fiddly to use when centering blades of different widths, I find it difficult to consistently get a blade set at 90 degrees, and the stop is made of metal so there is a chance that I may chip a blade.

I like the fact that there are so many options for different blade angles, but I really only regularly sharpen two angles, 25 degrees for may plane blades and 30 degrees for my chisels.

Some people set wooden stops at different depths along the edge of there sharpening station to help speed up the setting of the blade. I didn't want to use up bench real estate for this option, so I made a simple little jig.