Thread: Wetstone Bench Grinder

I have no idea about Sheppach. I have a tormek, the blue lighter weight non-industrial version.
The only addition I have made is the jig for knives. I find the tormek great at its job, like all tools there is a learning curve, not too steep though.

I use it for knives (duh) plane blades, chisels, aand anything else with a straight blade. I wouldn't hesitate to get more jigs if the need arose, e.g, turning gouges if I was into turning.

Just looking at the pics, I can't see much difference between the Tormek and the Sheppach. I'd be interested to hear from an owner.

Good Luck

I also have one of the blue Tormek models and have the knife sharpening Jig and made myself a scissor jig. I paid about $280 about 10 years ago and the unit is still going strong with constant use. The Wife loves it as we always have razor sharp knives in the kitchen (shaving Sharp). My brother being a great scammer collects knives from his workmates and brings them round for a sharpen and hits his good mates 3 bills a knife and they are all happy. The only thing that I do differently to the instruction guide is not to use the leather honing wheel as I have found that you can actually round over the bevel on a chisel quite easily. Instead I use an old leather belt about 40mm wide charged with the honing compound and stop the knife blade the same as a barber used to stop a cutthroat razor. A good quality knife comes out shaving sharp with a few passes to remove the wire edge.

Morry,

Out of interest, since yours is 10 years old, have you had to buy a replacement grinding wheel for it yet or are you still on the original?
I'm looking to buy one of these at some stage (perhaps after christmas)... just wondering what the life is like on the wheels.

Make sure you have a good look at what you are buying before signing off on it. I was a the WwW show a couple of years ago with a mate looking to buy & saw a Sepach unit that seemed to have lost an argument with an elephant - both wheels were visibly wonky & it seemed the whole axle was slightly 'u' shaped. I'd say it had an 'accident' on the way to the show, but you would hope the bods on the stand wouldn't display such a damaged unit. Anyhow they didn't get a sale.

Dean

Im Still on the Original wheel and although it has probable worn down about 20mm in dia it still works fine. I'm dreading the replacement as ive heard they cost a bit to replace the supergrind wheel. Still I wish that all my other tools where as well built as the tormek as it hasn't missed a beat in all that time.

Thanks for the reply. I better start saving the pennies

I bought the cheaper Delta unit with the horizontal wet wheel about five years ago for about $400. Today is gathers dust as I use water stones for my chisels and plane blades.

The only time I use the Delta is if one of my mates brings over a chisel or plane blade that is so badly cared for that it needs serious re-grinding to make it resemble a blade again.

They are good but for me it filled a gap until I found something better. I can imagine turners might find them more useful.

- Wood Borer

Too slow for woodturners.

My opinion.

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Perhaps you are just too fast?

Originally Posted by

Too slow for woodturners.

My opinion.

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What about one of the "slow" dry wheels that turns at 1400 rpm or so? Any advantage or just stick with the tried and true?

Cheers,

P

Dean: possibly

B.M. I have never tried them but I had a Tormek and gave it away to a mate. He still is

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I wasn't suggesting using one to spin the work, I was thinking of using one to hold the lathe down when you are turning a lumpy bit. You know, hitch it to the frame with a bit of 8 gauge because they have a bit of weight in them.

I know very little about turning but I will get a lathe one day and then you can show me how to make circular dovetails or whatever joints you use in turning.

- Wood Borer

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