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Hi All,

With my 'new' acquisition, I am becoming a sharpening fool 

Most of my plane blades are some form of tool steel: O1, A2, ...

These seem to take quite a while to profile using the white stone. Would I be better using the black stone. I know that the diamond stones would be great, but to rich for my blood. Thoughts?

Thanks

Ray

Hi All,

I am having a problem with my 1st attempts at sharpening.

This is a LN plane blade that got messed up by other attempts, guess I have a trend going!

The 1st picture is what I ended up with, sigh...

The 2nd picture is a small machinist square in the plane jig, against the wheel AFTER a long session with the diamond flattening fixture.

The 3rd picture is the square in the jig.

How did I mess up getting the wheel parallel?

Thanks

Ray

Hi All,

I JUST picked up a new-to-me Tormek. It is marked as a SuperGrind 200o, but came in a SuperGrind 2006 box. This thing is in like-new condition. No rust or damage anywhere, and came with the box

It came with a number of options:

SG-250 - stone with pretty much the entire stone there
SVX-150 - Scissors jig
SVM-100 - Long knife jig
SVD-110 - Tool Rest
SVS-32 - Short tool Jig
ADV-50D - diamond trueing tool
SP-650 - Stone Grader
SVH-60 - plane / Chisel jig
Book, VHS tape, Paste, and cover

I have looked at the forum a bit, and want to do any maintenance or improvements necessary. It looks like the main shaft is stainless, I am uncertain about the motor isolation - I understand that it was ultimately upgraded for the T7. I don't know if the support is the 'micro-adjustable' version yet, need to find pictures

I have to say that even used this system is not cheap. This pile O stuff cost me $300 and a used #7 plane!

Have yet to look, but I was wondering if there is something that supports skew plane blades?

My woodworking is generally cabinetmaking, so planes and chisels are the big care-about. Some of the plane blades are tool steel so I was wondering if this stone will work well. Are there any 'essential' jigs that I should look at. Is the newer plane / chisel jig worth getting given that I seem to have the older version?

Thanks

Ray