[pianotech] Of Chisels

[David Love]

That's good to hear. I ask mainly because there have been a few comments that the Tormek is not up to the task of flattening the back of a chisel. Since that's an important part of chisel sharpening I found it surprising that a company that seems to have taken so many things into consideration in the design of their tool  would have fallen flat (no pun intended) on this particular procedure. Thanks for clarifying.


David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>
Sender: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:04:47 
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
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Subject: Re: [pianotech] Of Chisels

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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