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I'll have to give that a try. Somehow, probably from watching clip's on U-Tube, I thought the truing stone was supposed to be held flat against the wheel and also moved left to right. I can see how the edge would be more aggressive.

I'm a new T-7 owner and went with the Blackstone from the "get-go". I first experimented first with some Stanley chisels and found out that my first mistake was not truing the wheel with the diamond dresser. In relation to the machine, the outboard part of the wheel had a larger diameter than the inboard so the new chisel edge wasn't turning out square. My first impression was that the wheel loaded up quickly and didn't remove metal very quicklly, at all. After dressing the wheel things went a lot better. Things squared up and ground much quicker. I can't help but wonder if I'll need to use the diamond dresser very often to get the reasonable sharpening speed I'm looking for. The stone grader glazes over quickly and doesn't seem anywhere as effective as the diamond. Silicon carbide dressing silicon carbide might be too even of a match. A friend I met online suggested using Lansky's  diamond hones instead of the stone grader. As I said, I'm just going through the learning curve at this time.