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Hey all, thinking of buying a course diamond wheel. I mainly only use my tormek for grinding primary bevels back to 25 degrees on my plane and chisel irons (repairing dents etc also). I find the standard wheel a bit slow, will I see much improvement in speed with the course diamond wheel? Many thanks!

Hi all,

I'm a new member here. Just wanted to say thank you for having me, I've been a long term lurker here.

So I've got a T7 with the SE 76 jig to use to grind primary bevels on my plane irons and chisels when the secondary bevel gets too big or damaged. From the tormek I'll use my shapton stones to hone the primary bevel.

I jumped straight into it and attempted to grind a 50mm wide plane iron at 25 degrees. After a while I noticed it was not grinding one corner of the plane. The wheel is square, I'm pretty certain I applied even finger pressure so I assume it's out of square in the SE 76.

So I tried to compensate by undoing the knobs on the SE 76 and angle it to make it cut square. The issue is it's a real hit and miss, I either loosen it so much that I got too far in one direction, or it's not enough.

How do others micro adjust the SE 76. I started looking at the upgraded SE 77 which appears it does have micro adjust?

And how should I grind the plane iron to get it back to square. Should I grind one edge more then the other and keep checking with a square to ensure I'm fixing the problem?

Many thanks in advance.