Grinding Glass with Tormek Diamond Wheels

[RickKrung]

Anyone ever used their diamond wheels for grinding glass?  Diamonds supposedly cut everything and may be the only thing that would work on glass.  Only talking about taking small amounts of of an edge.  I'm thinking on the flat side of the wheel. 

[John Hancock Sr]

No but I see no reason why not. Definitely wet grind though.

[Royale]

Anyone ever used their diamond wheels for grinding glass?  Diamonds supposedly cut everything and may be the only thing that would work on glass.  Only talking about taking small amounts of of an edge.  I'm thinking on the flat side of the wheel.

I think the issue I'm facing is somewhat relevant?

If you grind glass on your grindstone, and you get any pieces embedded in the stone, it may come back to haunt you when you're sharpening knives?

I have this mystery protrusion on one of my diamond grindstones where it randomly makes a distinctive rectangular chip on knife blades that I sharpen.

I've cleaned my diamond grindstones with my ultrasonic cleaner, and added more permanent magnets to my water trough, just to reduce metal contamination. But there's always this mystery protrusion that makes the same sized chip at random times. I think it's on my DC-250, but no luck figuring out where it is, and it doesn't show up consistently enough for me to definitively say on which grindstone it's on.

So yeah, if you can't pull any remaining glass off with magnets, and if you can't visually verify that it's all gone, then I think you roll the dice with grinding something harder than steel and also non magnetic.

[Ken S]

Many years ago, with my photo business, I had a local glass shop make up apiece of heavy plate glass for contact printing. I had them grind the corners round. I don't know what tools they used for this.

I recall seeing a file for rough edges on crystal in a DMT catalog.

I would definitely recommend using ACC with the diamond wheels to keep them clean.

Ken