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Jeff, can you show us a picture of the current jig? The diagrams in the replacement parts list only show end and side views.  I can't viualize where the hole for the short tools is located. Thanks.

If you have a magnet in the water tray you can easily tell if the stone is cutting the metal. The 220 grit of the stone doesn't take metal away very quickly. I, too, have spent lots of time reshaping my skews to the curved "Raffan" grind. The Tormek is not well suited to reshaping turning tools, that's why they recently introduced a way to use the jigs on a dry grinder. Before that setup became available I had bought a Wolveine system so I could reshape my tools some time before I passed on to that great shop in the sky 

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I received a great 80 minute DVD with the current issue of Woodturning Design magazine. I think it's the same disc included in the Woodturners Toolbox that also includes a manual. It was shot before the blue T-7 was available (the green model 2000 was used in the video.)

I think the info in the DVD is useful for both novice turners and folks with lots of chips behind them. It has two main sections: Sharpening and Turning Tips. The whole production moves at a fast clip and assumes the viewer knows a little bit about how to make wood pieces round. I've looked at some sections of the Tips part several times and even slowed the playback down to get a better understanding of just what is going on.

I think Tormek is missing the boat by not making this DVD freely available, like PSI and Beall do with their videos. It's a well done, very informative production - and a great selling tool.

I concur with what Boehme had to say. I find reshaping on the Tormek to be very time consuming, so have gone to the dry grinder and the Wolverine jig for shaping. Sharpening of PM with cryo treatment (a Doug Thompson 5/8 gouge) took no longer than any of my HSS tools.
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Jim

'PM' is powdered metal. Many of the turning gouge and skew makers are starting to use the technology, whether or not a cryo treatment is used, to get more uniform distribution of carbon and other alloys in the metal. Doug Thompson ( www.thompsonlathetools.com ) makes highly regarded turning tools from PM materials. I have easily sharpened one of his 5/8 inch bowl gouges on my original Tormek SG-250 stone. It didn't seem any more difficult than sharpening a carbon steel tool.

I've used up all the 'recipe' strips used to record angle and jig settings on the ferrule of my turning tools. How can I get some more of these neat reminders?

Hi, folks. This is my first time on this forum, although I've owned a Model 2000 for about 5 years.

I just sharpened my Lacer 1 3/8 inch skew last week, after having diamond-honed away all the original hollow grind. I, too, puzzled over how to use the Tormek for a while. I settled on using the platform with the stone turning toward the edge. Even with care, the blade wants to hydroplane on the stone. It took a while to get the bevel properly ground to the curve, mostly due to the difference between the original grind on the real big (factory) stone and the Tormek's 10 incher.