A glideway crowning plate for creating a crown on a cutting edge of a cutting blade with a sharpening jig including a glideway crowning plate having a concaved curved surface of a predetermined radius placed proximate spaced glides of a sharpening jig. The sharpening jig utilizes a flat sharpening plate or a flat sharpening stone and the sharpening jig is side-stroked on the flat sharpening plate or the flat sharpening stone and the glideway crowning plate imposes a curved path of the predetermined radius on the sharpening jig, the cutting blade, and the flat sharpening plate or the flat sharpening stone to create a crown in the cutting edge of a cutting blade.