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#1
Honing with diamond on the wool felt wheel, as described by Vadim (RIP), works very well. My only problem was obtaining the alcoholic diamond solution. The commercially available quantities are far too large.

Now I have a simple and inexpensive solution. I bought monocrystalline diamond powder and prepare it in ethanol as follows:

I put a knife point of diamond powder (5 to 6 mg) in a small test tube and add about 2 ml of ethanol. I shake this up with a small ink mixer of the type used for mixing tattoo inks (Fig. 1).

I pour this mixture into a small electric sprayer and spray the rotating wool felt disk. Such small sprayers (Fig. 2) are used in beauty salons.

To ensure that only the wool felt disk is coated and not the surrounding area, I have fitted two disks with a larger diameter than the wool felt disk (Fig. 3). This keeps everything nice and clean.

All together it cost less than 60 US$! With the 20 grams of diamond powder for less than 10 US$, I'm sure I can hone my knives for years!

Have fun with it!
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#2
Knife Sharpening / Titanium Cutting Boards
September 28, 2024, 08:43:57 PM
Hello friends,

lately I've been seeing more and more advertisements for titanium cutting boards. They are easy to clean, antibacterial and do not damage the cutting edge because titanium is softer than steel.

I have my doubts about that. My search in the forum has not got me any further. Does anyone have any positive or negative experiences with these titanium chopping boards?

Greetings from Germany
Drilon

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#3
Knife Sharpening / Dr. Vadim Kraichuk
January 24, 2023, 10:36:12 PM
It's hard to believe, but it's been a year now since Vadim Kraichuk (wootz) left us. We owe him a lot for his studies and ideas. RIP
#4
General Tormek Questions / T7 Trough Cleaning
March 01, 2019, 07:42:24 PM
Dear friends, I didn't like to clean the magnet side of the T7 water trough from captured steel particles. So I sealed a strong magnet in a plastic foil (picture 1). In the trough it is held by the existing magnet of the trough (picture 2). Most of the steel particles now are collected by the strong magnet in the foil. For cleaning the magnet with the surrounding foil can be removed (picture 3) and cleaned easily outside the trough.