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As you all know, using a truly sharp knife, pair of scissors, garden tool etc is such satisfying experience, which sadly I fear the average person gets to experience with any regularity.

It always makes me happy to be able to sharpen knives for family and friends, but some of them live far enough away that it can be quite a while in between visits to my T-8...

For people that live farther away is there a layman's sharpener that I could give them to help maintain their edges?

Obviously it needs to dead simple. Is a normal steel the best option or?

I have had moderate success in the past with the standard stone with hss planer blades, but it takes forever... I'm I better off getting the black stone or a cbn wheel. If I get cbn, which one?

Thanks!

Very cool idea. I look forward to watching it develop.
Would some of this not benefit from using the side of the wheel for a completely flat grind?

Anyone here ever used a Tormek to dress a chainsaw bar? If so, how?

Especially if you are sharpening narrow tools, I think it will be no problem. I would get the stone grader and the truing tool.

My new kj-45 jig seems to bow in the middle. It's a bit hard to photograph, but to me the gap is less at the ends than in the middle. Anyone else see this? Will it have an effect?

I'm travelling through the USA at the moment, and I picked up the new knife jig. I need to get though TSA soon... Does anyone know if I will be able to bring it in my carry on bag?

I have an old pair of tin snips that I have got very sharp on the Tormek, but these seems to be an issue that they cut great down by the tips, but as the material moves closer to the pivot point, it cuts less and less...

It this an issue with the sharpening or more likely are the blades bent and just not meshing properly? (the photo is an example of what they look like... not the actual tool...)

Mine did that after I got water in it. See my other post for photos. I just let it be for awhile and now it seems ok. I do think placing the switch on the top is a strange choice...

First of all, I am very curious how you used the scissors jig for sharpening a machete.  You phrase it as "using the scissors jig mod", so I'm wondering what "mod"?  I would appreciate seeing a

This is the mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcWAkQmoU8c

I had a very frustrating sharpening session today. A friend asked me to sharpen her machete and I did this using the scissor jig  mod that most of you will know. That worked great. The problem was because of the length of the machete a lot of water kept dripping on top of the machine and managed to get on the drive wheel and cause it to slip

I kept stopping the t-8 to dry it off and then the next issue occurred. The power switch would not stay on! It would only stay on if I held the button down. As you can see from the photo, there is definitely moisture behind the protective plastic, which I assume is there to prevent this.

Questions: was the switch issue due to water getting in?

How do you prevent water dripping over the top right side of the machine and keep it off the drive wheel?

Cool... I vote for the color: chrome

Anyone got a method for sharpening those adjustable circle cutter blades?

I have used the SVH-320 twice and while the results have been acceptable to me, I can't help thinking that the instructions don't fit the hardware...

The manual says to use the knob in the back to set the angle and then to use the micro adjust wheels to lower the platform to create a gap between it and slide carriage..

To me it makes more sense to set the angle with the wheels and then back off the the back knob to create the gap.

The back knob pushes in the centre of the platforms and thereby moves it level.

When you turn the wheels, you are always guessing how much to move them to keep the whole thing level.

It seems better to me to introduce the gap via a single knob rather than trying to keep the two micro adjusts equal.

Or am I thinking about this wrong?

I was wonder if anyone has found an alternative for the TT-50 Diamond Bit? That part seems very expensive for what looks like a few specks of industrial diamond...

Just a quick search on aliexpress turns up very similar looking bits in the $5 range...

Also: why random specks and not a single point?