The great leather honing wheel oiling mystery solved, at last

[Ken S]

Arnman, I would suggest giving your honing wheel a quick scrape, a little oil, and start using it. You should be up and running smoothly soonly.

By the way, I noticed that the Tormek reps used less honing compound than I do, and had less mess. In fact, I do not recall seeing any honing mess and surprisingly litte spilled water.

Go for it!

Ken

[stevebot]

At Hartville the first thing I did was scrape the glaze off of Affinity Tool's Tormek.

[Jimmy R Jørgensen]

i Know i'm opening a old post. But it seems that the topic never gets old

I wonder if any that know how and what to do when starting, will/can record it when they break in a new wheel. As a foreigner i struggle to understand you guy's sometimes, it gets to be technical or to "slang".. see not even sure how to explain that.. BUT.. seeing it on a video speak the same language to all of us. So i hope that someone will record it next time. Phones now a days do a excellent job

[Ken S]

Thanks for the tip, Steve. I will remember it next month.

Jimmy,

One of the advantages of having Tormek AB ("Sweden") do a video is that English is not the native language. I believe that would tend to make the video more multi-language friendly.

Ken