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Ken,
Yesterday i had the opportunity to sharpen 9 knives for a customer on my Tormek 2000-and for that i was lucky to burrow a DE 250 wheel. I did the sharpening with only the DE 250 to get some experience in using diamonds. I think the result was good-( i had to do some "first aid to my finger" ) the knife was sharp!
I think that the more experience you get as a sharpener you will be more able to decide wether to use the std. wheel or to use diamonds or even maybe both.
I agree with you and tgbto s point of views.
Currently i have not had that many "fancy steel knives"  One thing i noticed is that the diamond  is qiuck when it comes to getting rid of knicks on the cutting edge. The SG wheel is a bit more slow, and sometimes need to be dressed during this process. Many of the knives i have sharpend have been handled pretty rough by the customor, so they needed extra care from the sharpener.

Ken and tgbto
I thank you both for sharing your opinion and experience :-) The SG wheel does a very good job. I think i will keep with it.

And BTW merry X-mas to all who reads this.

I have been sharpening with my T4 for a while now, and it works very well :-)
Its been around 300 kitchen knives-some scissors and some chisels. Im thinking about buying a diamond wheel in the 200 series for my T4.
What do you think would be the advantage/disadvantage  with these diamond wheels? Compared to the std. SG 200 wheel. :-)

Ken,
Thank you for the answer.

Ken,
Btw. Thank you for welcoming me to this great group of Tormek knowledge :-)  I have been here for a while now and only been reading some of all the knowledge that is here.

I have also watched all of the "sharpening class videos"  I have no experience with diamonds thats the reason why i ask about it. The only knowledge i have about diamonds comes from reading

in some of the books i have about sharpening in general.  ( Steve Bottorff)  ( Leonard Lee)

Oh i get your point Rick- :-) i was thinking about diamond wheels, im from Denmark and ill try to do my best in english :-)
I was thinking about if the Tormek diamond wheels are the polycrystalline or monocrystalline type? I have a t4 and a an older Tormek 2000 and havent tried working with diamond wheels yet.

Is it possible to ask a question about diamond stones here? Im rather new in this forum