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I guess I'm gonna take the plunge!
thanks for your help.
Geoff

Jeff, I am trying to visualize this...In your video, you always keep the black plastic knob  flat against the tool support and rotate the shaft (to raise the blade handle) while keeping the flange of the knob flat against the support. In the Tormek video, the operator doesn't lift the blade handle by rotating the shaft, but does that semicircular motion you say not to do.

As the distance to from the tool support to the knife edge changes, isn't the distance equalized by arcing the knife handle and not lifting it?.


sorry to be so thick...

                 

                             

I am a devoted knife guy. I have used every manual sharpener from Edge-Pro to the Sharpmaker. I am seriously considering a T7, primarily for my many folding knives, camp knives, kitchen knives and for my son to maybe earn some spare cash sharpening neighbors' knives.

The Tormek site shows a different method of sharpening the tip than your video. Assuming yours is the correct way, how hard is it to "raise" the tip by rotating the shaft and getting the exact duplicate on the other side. In other words, if symmetry is the goal, doesn't that lift/slide introduce error?

Let's say i want an 18* angle, with practice, do you just "feel" the lift/slide on each side of the knife?


EDIT: I suppose that depending on the amount of "sweep" at the tip, I could just slide the edge right across without lifting and just have a visually larger, ie steeper, edge  bevel...