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Does anyone know of a good supplier for the .25 micron poly diamond spray for the leather wheel, and the 1 micron monocrystaline diamond spray for the felt wheel? they seem to not be available in alchahol based forms.
Also looking for a cbn wheel supplier in North America as my SG wheel is getting fairly small.

I have a question about the felt deburring.
I use the rock hard felt wheel at .65 density from piriui polishing in China loaded with a 1 micron diamond paste which I'm not sure is penetrating into the felt. I deburr 3 passes lightly at +2 dps setting the angle with the cal cap calculator.
after high angle honing the bess score is consistently at 160 to 145 bess.
Does this mean the wire burr has not been removed properly and if thats the case what can I do to improve the process?

I use the Tormek T8 with the standard stone graded fine and the leather honing wheel with cal cap angle calculator.
After setting the angle on the knives I remove the burr with the leather honing wheel at the exact angle. this worked well at first but now the honing wheel does not remove the burr at the exact angle or even 1 or 2 degrees higher. Any help on what the problem could be would be greatly appreciated.

I am a fairly new Tormek T8 user with a T8 standard wheel.
I sharpen at 15 dps on the original stone graded to about medium to fine grit till I feel the burr.My bess scores are around 120 honing on the leather wheel at exact angle 15 degrees 4 times per side, then 2 degrees higher 3 times per side lightly, then finishing with one pass at exact angle.
When I use them for meat cutting poultry or red meat they dont seem to cut as well as my belt sharpened knives used to.I'm confused as to why that is since the knives feel a lot sharper than the belt sharpened ones used to Does anyone have thoughts on that?