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I wish you luck with the carbide experiment. Surface ground carbide years ago and one of the frustrating things I noticed was fractures throughout the ground surface. Used diamond wheels with no coolant.
Check the chemicals in the tormek water additive and make sure there wont be a reaction with your blades.

Just a heads up about carbide. Nickel is the "glue" carbide needs to hold together. Chlorine in tap water breaks nickel down. As a toolmaker I`ve seen solid carbide tooling in stamping dies come apart. Use distilled water in your tormek for carbide.

Great to see a young person taking interest in sharpening. I`m still in my first year with my Tormek but had a thought.
Find cheap knives at garage sales etc.. Then practice. It will come.

Steep angles for shears kicking back with stone coming in to edge.

I think so too. Have a lot of ideas but keep them to myself out of respect to Tormek. Pattern maker? Awesome skill set. My background is metal stamping along with robotic weld fixturing and cnc work holding. Finished up
my career in machine building there is where I learned about servos.

Thanks Rick
Awesome clue for cheap servos. Although retired I still have access to milling machines etc.. Also can pick the brains of 3 engineers who deal with servo controlled machines for a living. Wife having surgery next week so all is on the shelf for now.

Sounds like you are better situated on the servo controllers than me.  I'm more seat-of-the-pants, never got into electronics much.  I just ordered a variable speed controller for the servo motor I have that I hope will be better than the one I have.

Access to those machines is valuable.  Sure has served me well.  On the servo motor I have, it is geared, which I need to remove and machine a new bearing end cap, but they are available new and sell for over $300.  I paid $20. 

Rick

Rick
Love making my own stuff. Some servos can have spindle speed changed through the controller by computer. Huge speed range.

Ken
Guess it is the toolmaker in me coming out. During my career I was able to learn new ways of doing thing and gain some satisfaction creating fixturing and other tooling. Saved employers a lot of money doing so.

Thanks Rick
Awesome clue for cheap servos. Although retired I still have access to milling machines etc.. Also can pick the brains of 3 engineers who deal with servo controlled machines for a living. Wife having surgery next week so all is on the shelf for now.

Thanks Ken
Found a 6 inch leather wheel and picked up 1 micron diamond paste. No bess tester but customers are loving the results. Mounted on t4 next to stock leather wheel. Wanting to do this off to the side. Maybe a servo motor might be better.

Is it possible to slow a standard bench grinder down to tormek t4 speed?

Curious if this could be 3D printed.

Anyone aware of a US source for this felt?

I`ll help all I can.

Thanks guys.
New to the Tormek world but have 40 years toolmaking in my background. Retired and missing the craft so I`m looking to make a few things.

thank you