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Hi Ken - thanks for responding and not offended at all (not least because I didn't realise they did different sized wheels, so I have learned something!)  We do have the correct (same) size wheels. (Very slight difference due to wear on the grindstone wheels, but not such as to explain the extent of the difference. (Plus we've trued up the surface of the grindstone with the TT-50 to remove any difference in wheel surface angle as a possible factor.) G

Latest update.  Many thanks again for all your comments.  Desperate to sort the issue quickly, we followed the advice in one of the posts and got the coarse diamond stone, which re-shaped the oval skew very quickly, solving the original problem.   A new issue has arisen: moving to the black silicone (or the original blue) results in a different grind (it is grinding the same tiny place on each bevel, not across the whole bevel).  It's as though the angle has changed, but it can't have; the chisel is in the same jig at the same angle as on diamond wheel and we used the TTS-100 setter . . .  Any reason why simply changing the wheels should result in a different grind, everything else being equal?  Thank you G

Many thanks all for your detailed and prompt responses.  The two most encouraging things are (1) we are not alone and not going mad(!) this is a known issue experienced by others; and (2) there is a solution!  One thing I did forget to mention is that we don't own a DVD player, having got rid of it when we went 'digital' a long time ago and started streaming everything!  Would be good if Tormek could make the DVDs available digitally.  Anyway we'll try the suggestions. Thanks again.
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Hi everyone I am new to the forum and to Tormek.  Hope you can help.  Have been trying to sharpen an oval, angled skew chisel (HSS).  It was taking ages (about 2 hours) and still nowhere near.  We realised we needed to shape it first, so we got bench grinder with Tormek BGM-100.  Did all that, got it into shape, all looking promising.  Transferred skew over to the Tormek (black silicone) and once again it is barely touching it (we put black pen on both sides and even after 40mins much of it it was still visible, with only tiny areas removed).  As far as I can tell we've been doing everything 100% correct.  But maybe not!  Any suggestions please?  Is the differential between the diameter of the bench grinder and larger Tormek wheels a material factor?
Thanks for your help
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