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I have been looking for the metal plate referred to in the T-8 getting started guide that came with my T8 Black but there does not seem to be one. Is this deliberate? Maybe they thought that it would mar the clean black look of the anniversary edition???

There is a new Tormek Sharpening class up on the Tormek Innovation Sharpening on their YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOM931z3YPM

My new T8 arrived today. My son inherited my old T7 and is busy buying new jigs for it

Not so much of a question as an observation. If you are not using your Tormek for a couple of days remove the wheel. I was doing other stuff and left a diamond wheel on for a couple of weeks and I had to resorte to a wrench to remove the nut and I had to use some gentle persuasion to remove the wheel from the shaft.

So, my advice would be to remove the wheel at the end of every sharpening session. I suspect that it was the anti corrosion additive which seems to go sticky if you have any residue remaining. I usually do that but for some reason forgot this time.

My sister in law brought over 15 knives yesterday for me to sharpen. All were in various stages of extremely blunt to needing reshaping! I think it gave me a taste of the life if a professional sharpener. They were all pretty ordinary supermarket knives so nothing special. One was a vintage carving knife with the rectangular bone handle that grandma used for her Sunday roast.

The wife keeps suggesting that I take my setup to the local market. After yesterday's marathon I think I will leave it to the professionals. Not that I was tempted, but it just confirmed my thought that it is not something I want to make a living from.

A local (to me) knife sharpener was asked if he could sharpen a round blade from a pizza cutter by his local pizza shop. Here is the result of his investigations. Interesting.

https://youtu.be/CELSYmNsnXM