You mean the "slow" speed of the Tormek removing enough steel off the back before you grow a bunch of new grey hairs? Well, I'm not sure. For myself, yes, I find it adequate. But then I do the back often - pretty much every time I sharpen on the stone, I do the backs also - so I usually don't have any need to remove any great quantity of steel from the back. I guess if you found a situation where you had to remove a bunch of steel, you could then use a very coarse stone, or get a coarse wheel like the Norton wheel that I have for very coarse grinding. It is a bit smaller than the big dual grit Tormek grinding stone wheel, but it is very coarse (right off hand I don't recall the grit - 50? 80? - something like that - I can look if you want to know) and I run it through the water bath so all grinding stays cool. All I can really say is that I have a set or two of VERY good sharpening stones, but I haven't used any of them since getting my Tormek maybe 6,7,8 years ago. And IMHO, I have very sharp, very workable chisels and other cutting tools that I sharpen on my Tormek. Terry Farrell On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:19 AM, David Love wrote: > So then the speed of the Tormek for flattening the back of the > chisel has not been a problem for you? > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com > > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] > On Behalf Of Terry Farrell > Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 5:11 PM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Of Chisels > > The flat sides of the stone wheel. One side is a coarse grit and the > other is a fine grit. After that the leather lap. Does a real good > job. > > I fully realize there are less expensive ways to sharpen a chisel or > whatever. But for those of us who for whatever reason do not have > the natural skills to sharpen by hand, the Tormek unit really does > provide a great avenue for keeping cutting tools very sharp. > > Terry Farrell > > On Oct 10, 2010, at 11:01 AM, David Love wrote: > > > I’m curious about those who use the Tormek system, how do you go > about flattening the back of the chisel? > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101011/3ebfebe8/attachment.htm>
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