A vertically oriented honing guide for sharpening edged tools is disclosed. The vertically oriented honing guide for sharpening edged tools eliminates nearly all setup time and is compatible with commercial products by orienting the tools vertically and through the use of a linear guide system. This eliminates the need for tool clamping, facilitates direct angle setting, improves ergonomics, and allows the use of generic sharpening media. Yet, the vertically oriented honing guide for sharpening edged tools may alternatively incorporate a clamping mechanism to clamp tools being sharpened.

A honing device includes a honing tool, a rotating main shaft to which the honing tool is fixed, an axial direction driver to cause the rotating main shaft to move in the Z-axis direction, a workpiece holder to hold a workpiece while a central axis of a processed hole of the workpiece and the a central axis of the rotating main shaft coincide with each other, and a holder drive unit to, by exerting a driving force on a portion of the workpiece holder corresponding to a point on an extension line of the central axis of the rotating main shaft in a direction along the central axis, cause the workpiece holder to move in a direction along the central axis.