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I read about the thicker blade issue in another thread and it does make sense. However, I tested the jig using a straight edge of about 1/8th inch thickness and it was reading about a 5 degree difference between sides. Then by looking at the profile you could see the jig was slightly off. Anyways, unprecedented response by customer service.

Hello all! My name is Steve and since I bought my T7 last August I have been sharpening anything and everything in and around my house that has an edge on it. I LOVE MY T7!!! I've tried many other systems and this is by far the best and most fun of them all! I've been lurking around here for months, reading and soaking up as much information as I could, but something happened to me recently that had to be shared.

More than anything else I use my T7 to sharpen knives. I've gotten pretty good using the SVM-45 knife sharpening jig. Recently I noticed that after I sharpened the second side of a knife, the bevels didn't match, one being wider than the other. After checking using a straight edge, sure enough there was a difference of 5 degrees. I e-mailed Tormek telling them about my problems and hoping that it may be covered under warrantee. While waiting for a reply I saw that my SVM-45 had somehow gotten bent, which was odd since I never dropped it. So I put it into my bench vise and tried to straighten it. I learned two things that day: 1) aluminum doesn't bend; 2) aluminum snaps. Guess what happened next... SNAP, right at the shank. Man was I bummed.

Shortly after I got the reply from Tormek customer service suggesting I try a couple of things, but they too concluded the jig had gotten bent. I replied back telling them it doesn't matter as I snapped it. Tormek customer service replied again telling me how sorry they were that I broke it, and they would send me out a new one free of charge. I was floored! I couldn't believe that they were going to replace an item that I broke. Well, Tormek just got a customer for life! I was a fan of Tormek before all this happened but now they can add me to their list of die hard supporters!!! I just wanted to share how well Tormek takes care of their customers.

Don't do it! It was suggested in another thread that it may be possible if you take the stone grader and radius an edge of the stone you could sharpen the concave section with that curved radius. I tried this on my SOG Vulcan, which has a similar blade shape as your Emerson. I mounted the universal support on the Tormek base so I would be grinding away from me, I figured I could use a lighter touch this way. I checked the bevel angle using the black marker technique, set the angle, and away I went. I took my time and went slowly. The first thing I noticed was it was really difficult to control the grinding of the blade using that small portion of the grinding stone that was contacting the blade. Some spots along that curve were ground more than others, leaving a wavy surface. Second, the angle of the bevel changed as I got into that curve, leaving an uneven bevel along the length of the blade. Lastly, even though I ground the edge of the stone first with the course side of the grader, then the fine side, that portion of the stone left some nasty deep scratches on my blade (not to mention I left a nice groove in my stone grader by grading that edge).

I love my T7! I've never had sharper knives or tools since I got it last year. But like everything else, it has it's limitations, and this is one of them. I have since fixed that knife by wrapping some wet/dry around a one and a half inch diameter piece of delrin and honing it by hand. This is what I should have done in the first place but I wanted to try the aforementioned method. Save yourself some aggravation and do it by hand.