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    Default Our CBN wheels production run

    We've finished 9-month testing of our CBN wheels, and the first production batch will be in our stock by mid September 2019. We joke in my team that the testing took as long as a pregnancy term

    Our all-aluminium CBN wheels run with tap water on all slow wet grinders with 12 mm shaft that take 250 mm wheel: Tormek, Scheppach, Jet, Record, Grizzly, Triton, Elmos, Saber etc.

    I've added specifications and info to our website
    CBN Grinding Wheels for Tormek and slow wet grinders >>

    We aim at giving Australians and New Zealanders the best quality CBN wheels at a price lower than the Tormek SG stone wheel.
    We are the only in the world who make unique Tormek-ready Round-edge CBN wheel for grinding both curved and straight blades.







    Of course, we make the conventional square-edge wheels as well






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    Where can we get them from in New Zealand or do you send from Aus?

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    The CBN wheels will be in our Sydney stock in the 3rd week of September, please check availability on our website.

    We, I mean Australia and New Zealand, overpay ridiculously for the Tormek diamond wheels compared to Europe and Tormek-compatible CBN wheels compared to the USA, so 9 months ago I started this project.

    It has been an interesting, but lengthy and very expensive project - I had changed 3 factories in the process.
    I've seen wheels that shed off the CBN coating into the 3rd month of use, and seen wheel that lost it on the corners by the 1st day, seen out of round and wheels stuck half-way on the Tormek shaft.

    When I culled 2 factories and changed to the 3rd, but still was not happy with the 3rd factory wheels, I told myself I would give it just one more try and abandon the project altogether.
    By then we already had a pile of CBN wheels in our workshop that failed my quality check.

    But the last factory is not as hopeless as the previous 2, and we've gradually improved. But they do not improve by themselves, I had to find the deficiency and push them in that direction many times, till we got the quality I want. Happy with the CBN wheels we make now, have been grinding on them in our workshop under full workload for months and perform well.

    We also have Tormek diamond wheels in our workshop, so I could compare. We've been sharpening knives on CBN wheels for 3 years, and I've summarized what we've learnt about the CBN wheels on our website Knife Grinders

    Cheers

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    CBN wheels currently used in our workshop


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    The September batch of our CBN wheels has been shipped out, thank you everyone.
    Distribution by countries:
    41% bought by Australia
    7% bought by New Zealand
    22% bought by Europe, UK & Ireland
    30% bought by USA

    Current Sydney stock as of 09 Sep 2019:
    Round-edge #1000 - sold out; next production run in October.
    Round-edge #400 - 1 in stock
    Square-edge #400 - in stock
    Square edge #160 - in stock
    Square edge #80 - in stock

    The CBN wheels are available on our website Knife Grinders
    and eBay (eBay by $25 more because of their fees).

    We've decided to keep the postage same for Australia and New Zealand, and flat for all countries world-wide.
    Because of that, we make 0 profit when shipping to New Zealand and overseas to the Zone 8, e.g. to Finland, Austria, Norway, South America etc. - but this is my vision of being fair to each our customer.

    As promised, we price our CBN wheels even a tad less than the Tormek SG stone wheel, despite all the CBN advantages over the stone.
    Our wheels cost only 63% of the price of the Tormek diamond wheel, despite the CBN being more expensive than synthetic diamonds. Speaking of the pricing, the diamond grinding wheels should be cheaper than CBN because of lower production cost. But market does not work this way, it exploits that people commonly think of diamonds as of higher value.

    But our approach is different,
    we are different because we are not retailers, we fabricate and sell only what we use ourselves in our sharpening workshop.e are different because we are not retailers, we fabricate and sell only what we use ourselves in our sharpening workshop. O
    ur approach is fair dinkum fair go - there is no reason why you should not have our CBN wheel on your Tormek or other brand slow wet grinder.



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    Feedback coming on our CBN wheels is very rewarding. This project took me months and months of efforts and painstaking trials, rejects after rejects and $$$, but I continued against the odds, because I knew the wet slow grinder sharpeners in Australia and NZ need someone deliver these wheels affordable and quality, because the CBN wheels are the single biggest advance in sharpening in a very long time.


    Ken Schroeder from the USA, the Tormek forum moderator:
    "Every once in a while a product excites me with outstanding practical design and excellent machining. Your CBN grinding wheel is certainly in that category. You set a new standard for fit and finish. (No surprise; I expected that from you.)
    In my opinion, what separates your wheels from the other CBN wheels is that you understand Tormek wet sharpening. The other wheels work adequately, however, they are designed for the high speed dry grinding woodturning environment. Your wheels are designed to work with plain water, as wheels used with a Tormek should."


    Al from New Zealand is a woodworking professional using the full set of our CBN wheels #80, #160, #400 and #1000:
    "Out of curiosity I took one of your CBN wheels down to my local engineer, we mounted it in the CNC and checked with a dial indicator and all the tolerances are within the specifications on your website. Best of all is that they are fully compatible with tapwater ensuring that there are no particles in the air that you get with dry grinding. The water pick up on the wheels is just the right amount keeping the run off in the trough without splashing or pouring. All in all very impressive."


    Our customer from Copenhagen, a professional sharpener, employing our software for Tormek in his business, has shared his excellent sharpness BESS scores:
    "I've had my first run with the #80 and #160 CBN wheels. They work great. Specially the #80 wheel was good for re-beveling blades. Look at the attached images."



    The numbers under 50 in his notebook are a disposable shaving razor sharpness. For comparison, a new utility knife blade scores 150-200.

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