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In the Shop => General Tormek Questions => Topic started by: van on December 24, 2019, 03:49:08 PM

Title: Positve Thinkings
Post by: van on December 24, 2019, 03:49:08 PM

"There can be no perfect sharpening unless you have a serenity of mind and an open mind."

Merry Christmas to the whole Tormek community :-* :-* :-*

Van
Title: Re: Positve Thinkings
Post by: Dutchman on December 24, 2019, 04:03:27 PM
Quote from: van on December 24, 2019, 03:49:08 PM

"There can be no perfect sharpening unless you have a serenity of mind and an open mind."

Merry Christmas to the whole Tormek community :-* :-* :-*

Van
Sharpen the boring mind? :D
Title: Re: Positve Thinkings
Post by: Twisted Trees on December 24, 2019, 04:12:08 PM
Sharp thoughts of a happy Christmas to you all, hope most of you like me, are able to catch up with family and enjoy yourselves. But it isn't Christmas until tomorrow, and there is no excuse for a less than perfect carving knife  :)
Title: Re: Positve Thinkings
Post by: John_B on December 24, 2019, 05:05:47 PM
Merry Christmas to all in the Tormek community.

My daughter wants her knives sharpened today. If she remembers to bring them I will have them ready for tomorrow's dinner. If not I will bring a couple of mine to her house.
Title: Re: Positve Thinkings
Post by: Jan on December 24, 2019, 07:39:24 PM
Merry Christmas to all!  :)

Jan
Title: Re: Positve Thinkings
Post by: John_B on December 25, 2019, 04:47:07 PM
Merry Christmas

I am off to sharpen my daughter's knive's for Christmas carving later today.

We had a great Christmas eve with granddaughters last night.
Title: Re: Positve Thinkings
Post by: GeoTech on December 25, 2019, 05:41:25 PM
Merry Christmas to all.
Title: Re: Positve Thinkings
Post by: Ken S on December 25, 2019, 11:01:10 PM
Jan, I like your Christmas image. It brings to mind memories of happy past Christmases.

Merry Christmas to all and a productive New Year for the forum

Ken
Title: Re: Positve Thinkings
Post by: Ken S on December 26, 2019, 12:55:45 PM
Quote from: van on December 24, 2019, 03:49:08 PM

"There can be no perfect sharpening unless you have a serenity of mind and an open mind."

Van

For thirty years I used a wooden view camera. It used sheet film holders. Each holder help two sheets of film and the holders had to be loaded and unloaded in the darkroom. During a week long trip, I might typically expose thirty sheets of film, roughly the equivalent of one roll of thirty five millimeter film. In an age of cel phone cameras, this might seem cumbersome or tedious, however, the quality of the images is incomparable. My serenity of mind came from having been at peace with the universe when I cleaned and loaded my film holders the previous evening.

With the Tormek, my serenity of mind comes from using a freshly trued grinding wheel and clean water. Knowing that my grinding wheel is optimized for good work declutters my mind and opens it to concentrate on sharpening.

Ken