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Hi all,
Big thanks to Ken, Jeff and Rob, really appreciate the posts and i can see your years of experience in the post you do.
i shall try some of these tips, try to take some photos and keep you all posted.
i need look into the cost of a few items, i find the prices in Australia a bit expensive compared to online sites like Rockler.com
Are you three American based?

if only other tools had forums as good as this one.

thanks guys

Phil

Hi All,
Yes i too have purchased the SB-250 hoping that it would speed up the cutting but i haven't found it a great help.

i had not heard the term of "stone glazing" but i have definitely experienced it and been unsure of what to do with this. perhaps i should read the forums about this to see what people say.

thanks again for the replies, best forum!

cheers

Phil

Hi All,
this forum truely amazes me. i was expecting one reply after less than a day but to see all these wow! thanks guys.
the question of steel removal.
Well i guess the point of back ground is in my user name, I'm a carpenter by trade and holding an edge isn't something that comes up.
the 4 things i sharpen with my tormek
HHS planner blades for my hand held Makita Planner.
Chisels
Planner irons
Drill bits
the  issue i have is in my line of work tools get a pretty hard life, they don't get a chance to gracefully dull in time, they get a flogging over a job and then they need alot of work to get there edge back. no one pays me (nor do i have time) to head the tormek after every day i give my planners or Chisels a tough day to bring their edge back.

quite often i head to the tormek because my planer blade or chisel has come into contact with something other than wood.
and especially with my HHS 82mm blades they take ALONG time to get there edge back with some of the gouges i get in them.

I do love the water cooling of the tormek and i can shave with my chisels when i have finished sharpening them. but because of the abuse my tools get, it's always alot of steel that needs to be removed to bring the edge back.

it's not about changing the way i use my tools, people don't pay me to gently remove or skip around items. they pay me to get the job done.

So that is a bit of back ground to  what i'm sharpening and why it's always alot of steel i'm removing. overheating the edge is one of the biggest problems i face in sharpening the tools i do.

so as as i would love to make the amazing pieces, which i'm sure you do with your well sharpened wood turning tools. it's fair to say i'm abit more of a butcher.

Thank you all so very much for your replies.

if anyone has any ideas how to best sharpen these planner blades
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then that would be most appreciated. like i said, in the SVH-320 i will only get half the knicks out and the wheel will stop removing steel like when i first trued the wheel and i get nowhere.
it's with large steel removal that i get stuck with the tormek.
unfortunately for me it's not a one resharpening and then two minutes regularly after that.

thanks

Phil

Hi All,
i was looking into getting a Bench grinder mount BGM-100 to deal with some of the slowness of rapid steel removal.
the instructions describe that you can use this with Gouge Jig SVD-185, Multi Jig SVS-50 and Tool Rest SVD-110.
is there any reason you could not use BGM-100 with
SE-76
SVH-320
or even DBS-22 (not that speed of material cut is an issue with this brilliant Jig)

Also if you were able to use these jigs (SE-76, SVH-320) would you need to use TTS-100 for setting the angles for changing between bench grinder and Tormek water cooled?
or would Angle master WM-200 be fine depending on grind stone size i guess

Thanks

Wow guys, thanks for the prompt responce! i thought i would get an email to tell me that i had a reply, so i hadn't checked for awhile. i will certainly look into the micro adjustment universal support as i have it on my t7 and it's brilliant. the wheel seems to respond very differently to my t7 wheel when using the truing tool.
thanks a heap

I own a T7 unit with standard attachments and use this unit for sharpening chisels, hand planner blades and purchased the SVH-320 to sharpen my electric planner blades. All these work great and love the system
I purchased today an older SUPERGRIND 1200 and attachements STRAIGHT EDGE JIG SVH-60 and 2 knife jigs SVM- 45&140 and SCISSOR jig SVX-150.
got it for a cheap price because it was from an old harware store and not needed any longer.
the wheel on the unit was quite out of round i would say 1/8" (like an egg)  also the wear on the stone was very sloped.
so i brought the unit to my workshop and attached my truing tool TT-50 and began to work the surface.
this was VERY difficult because at one part of the wheel the cutter would touch and on the oppisite side clear by 1/8"
also hard due to the lack of micro adjustment on the older universal support.
after awhile of this i have large chunks out or the wheel due to the way the wheel was worn.
stopped to not make the sitation worse and quite alot of vibration using like this.
QUESTION is this.
Is the wheel Salvageable?