Abstract: A device for manually sharpening cutting tools, especially hand-held cutting tools, comprising a shaft-shaped supporting body, being at least at one end provided with an edge indentation associated with a sharpening tool made of hard metal a and a central tongue projecting into the edge indentation for forming lateral entering grooves terminating at the sharpening tool for a tool to be sharpened. A long tool life of the sharpening tool made of hard metal may be achieved in that the sharpening tool is formed as a circular sharpening plate being rotatable round its axis and being arranged in the area of the inner end of the associated edge indentation with an axis vertically to the edge indentation and the tongue projecting over the plate. The sharpening plate is arranged displaceably in the longitudinal direction of the edge indentation.

Abstract: A manual sharpening device is proposed which may easily be operated and which may universally be used. This new manual sharpening device comprises a shaft-shaped supporting body comprising at least a fork-shaped end having two edge projections comprising two inner flank surfaces being inclined in a V-shaped manner towards each other, a tongue-shaped tool arrangement disposed between the edge projections and comprising a sharpening tool having parallel side edges made of hard metal, and a guide head limiting the sharpening tool at the end distant from the supporting body. The guide head has side flank surfaces which are parallel to the respective adjacent inner flank surfaces of the edge projections, at least the guide head being displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the tool arrangement.