"Jay Windley" writes:

"MHaseltine" wrote in message
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| Well, my silly question is, "Are these jigs or fixtures?"

Basic difference: a fixture holds/guides the stock; a jig holds/guides the
tool.


So a "sharpening jig" would really be a "sharpening fixture", since it
holds the stock (i.e. the blade to be sharpened) and not the tool (the
sharpening stone)?

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