[pianotech] Of Chisels

[Terry Farrell]

You mean the "slow" speed of the Tormek removing enough steel off the  
back before you grow a bunch of new grey hairs?

Well, I'm not sure. For myself, yes, I find it adequate. But then I do  
the back often - pretty much every time I sharpen on the stone, I do  
the backs also - so I usually don't have any need to remove any great  
quantity of steel from the back. I guess if you found a situation  
where you had to remove a bunch of steel, you could then use a very  
coarse stone, or get a coarse wheel like the Norton wheel that I have  
for very coarse grinding. It is a bit smaller than the big dual grit  
Tormek grinding stone wheel, but it is very coarse (right off hand I  
don't recall the grit - 50? 80? - something like that - I can look if  
you want to know) and I run it through the water bath so all grinding  
stays cool.

All I can really say is that I have a set or two of VERY good  
sharpening stones, but I haven't used any of them since getting my  
Tormek maybe 6,7,8 years ago. And IMHO, I have very sharp, very  
workable chisels and other cutting tools that I sharpen on my Tormek.

Terry Farrell

On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:19 AM, David Love wrote:

> So then the speed of the Tormek for flattening the back of the  
> chisel has not been a problem for you?
>
> David Love
> www.davidlovepianos.com
>
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org]  
> On Behalf Of Terry Farrell
> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 5:11 PM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Of Chisels
>
> The flat sides of the stone wheel. One side is a coarse grit and the  
> other is a fine grit. After that the leather lap. Does a real good  
> job.
>
> I fully realize there are less expensive ways to sharpen a chisel or  
> whatever. But for those of us who for whatever reason do not have  
> the natural skills to sharpen by hand, the Tormek unit really does  
> provide a great avenue for keeping cutting tools very sharp.
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> On Oct 10, 2010, at 11:01 AM, David Love wrote:
>
>
> I’m curious about those who use the Tormek system, how do you go  
> about flattening the back of the chisel?
>
> David Love
> www.davidlovepianos.com

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