How To Sharpen Chisels, Plane Blades, Knives, Axes, Leatherman Multi Tools and More on the Tormek T8
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2025
- In this video I sharpen a number of different tools on the Tormek T8 with the DF250 Diamond Wheel. Its a great machine for all your woodworking tools.
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Great vid - your review made me decide against the record power and stump up for a T4. Incredible machines, worth every penny!!
Nice.
Great video John and totally agree. It may be more on the pricier side but invest once, invest right. Cheers and take care
Thanks I'm glad you liked it
I love my Tormek! Welcome to the family! ☺️
Nice video John. Easy watch and clear to understand 👍
Thanks 👍
I belong to a woodworking class for retired , older people both male and female that have one of these machines and will forward to using it to sharpen our tools.
I have a T7 for years, my wife not allowing me to sharpener our kitchen knife with it, a real sharp kitchen is dangerous as her opinions. 😂, this is good introduction video.
Thank you for your content. I've been sharpening on the T4 for nearly 8 years now. Then it was the SG stone and the leather wheel. It might feel like big investment, but i have not looked back since. It has never failed me once. Now I use the diamond stones and have a lot of jigs. The learning curve is steep for some of them, but there is tutorials for most on Tormeks YT channel.
If you want to sharpen lots of kitchen knives - I really would recommend the KS-123 angel finder for knives - it has been a gamechanger for me who does a lot of knives.
Btw. I love the leather wheel - it does for me what your leather strop does for you :-)
Good to know, I'll check out KS-123
I am new to the t-8 but I managed to sharpen my swiss army knife using the normal knife jig because I didn't want to deal with the offset you dealt with on your Leatherman. What I understand from the tormek youtube videos you only need to clamp the knife blade a a few mm as the clamp on the jig works very well. Anyway it worked for me and saved me time and faff.
Nothing better in this world than a supremely sharp edge. That sound of it going through paper is the best ASMR ever.
Its hard to beat
A very nice looking machine. What a great upgrade to the workshop
It is indeed
Hi John, Good sharpening wheel and jig, very impressive results. Chisels will be good as new, plane blades knives no need to buy a new one, Good demonstration and a great video catch you soon Take care
Thanks 👍
On the chisel and the planer blade, you showed sharpening the bevel . . . do you do anything to the backs? Enjoyed the video, thumbs up, thanks for your time
Yes I flatten the back of all my chisels and plane blades. I have full videos on both.
Thanks for video. Brilliant machines. I second the the guy recommending the KS-123 angle finder for kitchen knives, far more accurate!
I’m interested in why you didn’t de-burr on the flat side of the chisel, is it not the case that the burr will be pushed back over after sharpening on the bevel?
I ran the flat side of the chisel on the leather strop. It was only a quick demo, I would only use the Tormek to set a primary bevel on my plane blades and chisels. I would do a secondary bevel by hand.
Nice bit of kit......
It sure is
I bought the Tormek 2000 Super Grind about 20 years ago. It's still working perfectly. Don't accept substitutes.
Good to know!
For those who can't afford a Tormek, Toolstation have a similar Einhell model for just under £100
I'm looking for a wet stone grinder for occasional use and I saw that toolstation sells one so I looked on youtube for videos but it's put me off buying it because the wet wheel has to much movement in it.
I know you are saying nice and simple, but how do you keep the angle the same for both sides in a jig which is NOT gripping the axe in one angle/position ?
Curious how long the diamond wheel lasts for you, John. I find that with the flat diamond plates they lose their grit and go out of flat much faster in practice than people think. If it lasts, then it might be a nice upgrade for my T4's wheel.
I have that diamond wheel a couple of years and it is still perfect, I can't tell you what the life span is.
@@JohnMcGrathManInShedMy understanding is that diamonds cut nicely with little applied pressure. Pressing hard can dislodge diamonds from the matrix, dramatically shortening the lifetime of the stone. It's not like an oil stone.
What was wrong with the last grinder you bought
Amazing what you can achieve with the right equipment - I’ll never get the same results with my whetstones. You put me to shame John.
It makes it easier but you can get amazing results with some practice on a simple diamond plate
Is that the leatherman wave you reviewed in a previous video?
It is
Did you ever consider the sorby pro edge bud
I did look at it but went with the Tormek as I had the diamond wheel already
Why a diamond wheel and not a CBN? Sorry I am a beginner and need advice
Diamond is the hardest substance on earth and works great at low rpm, CBN is for sharpening at higher rpm and can deal with heat better. The diamond wheel is perfect for the Tormek where as CBN would work with a bench grinder.
I could have sharpened more tools but the video is long enough.
I guarantee most of us are just fine with that!! 😎
Bice thing, but I've gone back to hand sharpening with the diamond plate and ceramic plate. Got the T8 and the SE-77 and it's is a absolute pain in the .... to get a blade streight and angeld. On the SE-77, the mark for the neutral position is not accurate. Tormek to say that in theire videos. So you only have to try when it is set for streight sharpening. Sorry, but in the time I try this, I am done with the hand sharpening. For knifes and axes ist is good, but for pressice blade and chissel shaprening it is much overrated and over priced. The compond wheel never got the edge as sharpe as my 16000 ceramic plate, because the compound is much to soft and rounds the edge over. For me it was a kind of desillusion process. I ever wantet a T8 and as I was able to afford one, it's disappointed me to a point I regreted buying one. By the way. T4 is a mess, because the water tank is so small, that if you sharpen a no. 6 plane blade, the water drops down beside the tank.I sold it, but with a loss, so I got back to sharpenig by hand with a cheap hooning guide, because, what a surpise, the veritas hooning guide also is not worth the money.
Not sure what issue you have with the SE-77 mine seems bang on, but like I said in the video I would only use the T8 to regrind the primary bevel the secondary bevel I would do by hand on the float glass and micro finishing film.
For only regrinding primary bevels a T8 is way to expensive. A slow-speed grinding machine would do the you for the 1/4 of the price. Regrding my bevels I mostly don't need to do. I Grind always the primary with 1200 diamond blade and only touch the secondary bevel with the 16000 ceramic blade. This way the secondary bevel is never getting as big, to become a primary bevel. If the T8 works for you I am okay with. As I say, for knifes and axes it is a great tool, same for the wood turning tools. I only shapren plane irons and chissels, so for me it is not worth the price.
I respect your perspective, but mine is different🙂I'm a very happy T4 user. Solved the water problem - I just wipe the surface underneath the machine when done sharpening.
If you remove prize from the equation, it's much more easy to have a happy result 🙂