Cheers Don. I'm not sure Tormek would appreciate how little I use the machine overall, with so much resharpening done on bench stones.

chickenguru4 Great to have you and your 45 on board. Happy woodworking, Mitch

Cheers

Many thanks!

Ken Haygarth Cheers Ken. I ought to experiment with different bevel angles to discover what works best over a range of woods that I commonly use. Finding the time is another matter!

Dan McDaniels Cheers Dan, appreciated. Happy woodworking, Mitch

Cheers Jim. Yep, my Tormek is only used occasionally to save a little effort re-establishing a bevel, etc. I do think they can save time if they can left permanently set up ready go, and can give pretty good results for a beginner by using the jigs. Once you learn how to sharpen by hand though, the Tormek looses it's edge. For complicated grinding, like some turning gouges, I do still turn to the Tormek's special jigs. Perhaps if I did more turning, I'd learn to do those well by hand.

Cheers Bob. That's a good point about the bevel angle. I should go back and check the angle on mine - I used the plastic Tormek angle guide to measure them, having just replicated the angle that was there, and it's not so easy to be accurate with it. Thanks for watching.

I have the Jet version of the Tormek. I snagged a Tormek angle guage like yours to measure bevels. My biggest issue is the bevels in the real smaller beading cutters. The best I have been able to do with them is grind the overall bevel (the flats on the outside and between the hollows), make sure the backs are dead flat, and hone the curved bevels on a small dowel with is saturated with honing paste. It's a bit of a struggle, especially on the smallest cutters for the Record 050C.

I have a tiny slipstone (Henry Taylor I think) that copes with most of them. Following up with a profiled lath with honing paste.

Thanks!

betzaleldaniel You don't need an accurate fit, as you can work the slip stone around the edge, or angle it to fit better. A diamond cone might work well, but I've not tried one.

aphansler Hi, I don't have the hollows and rounds bases or irons. I can't recall all the cutters I have, or which are spares, and I'm currently laid up with a bad back, so not sure when I'll be able to get back in the workshop to check. I appreciate you contacting me, and perhaps when you have decided which you are happy to trade you could email me a list (mai@womadeod.co.uk). Cheers, Mitch

Hadyn Buxton Cheers. Sadly I don't find the time for the guitar anymore - although I think it's to the relief of the family!

Hi, and thank you. The stone is an oil slip stone, made for small carving gouges mainly. Made by Henry Taylor Tools Limited, they can be purchased from www.axminster.co.uk/henry-taylor-slip-stone-set-910185

@@mitchwoodwork Thanks so much Mitch. Kind regards

I'm still waiting to find a set myself. Cheers

orzellezro Hi. Would you believe I have no slitting cutter with mine. I shall be making one, and demonstrating it in a future video, but I'm not sure when that will be yet. My understanding is that the cutter should have a flat back, pointed tip (about 90 degrees), and be beveled about 25 degrees on both edges of the tip. If you have one, try honing the bevels at their current angle, until they, and the tip, are razor sharp. Just touching the back to remove the wire edge. Let me know how it goes. Happy woodworking, Mitch

WOmadeOD - Made in Wood with Mitch Peacock Mine has a pointed tip and a bevel on each of the four faces (if that makes sense). Happy to send a picture if it helps.

WOmadeOD - Made in Wood with Mitch Peacock Thanks Mitch, I'll try that method although on mine the pointed tip is 63 degrees and there are two bevels on each side creating four faces leading down to the point.

orzellezro Sorry, of course about 60 degrees makes more sense!I've read that it came with four bevels, and thinking about it, it does make some sense. The purpose of the slitting cutter was to rip off mouldings made on the edge of a wider board, ready to add to a project. The best result would be produced with bevels facing away from the moulding, so that the ripped off piece would not have compressed fibres from the bevel. However, that configuration wouldn't work well with a fence riding against the moulded edge, as it would tend to push the fence away from the edge, ruining the straight cut. Unless the 'donor' board was of uniform width, you couldn't run the fence on the opposite edge, and even if it was you would have to reset the fence distance every time. Therefore, four bevels looks like a sensible compromise between speed and quality.Just in case you didn't know, the slitter is worked deeper and deeper, on alternate faces, until the cut is complete.

Out of interest, how thick is your slitting cutter? I just made mine thin enough to install with the depth stop in the plane's cast channel.

+Paul McManus I dread to think Paul! This set were pretty ropey when I got them. I seem to remember doing several at a time, then breaking for a few days. It does get rather boring. Ordinarily one would just sharpen during and after use - that way they are always ready, and you're never faced with a whole bunch to do.

I prefer oil, but if you've used water, you can dry them out and switch to oil or stick with water. It's not so easy to switch to water though, as you have to get the oil out which is difficult.

@@mitchwoodwork good point !

Well done. Hopefully you get to use them for many more hours than it took to sharpen them

@@mitchwoodwork agree! Just don’t have the choice! Have no grinding setup…;( That said, I always strop them before starting a day.

Good idea to always sharpen the whole bevel when stropping fails, to avoid the eventually big regrind by hand

Hecht103 I've not had cause to complain to Stanley, so I can't comment from experience. If your experience is a reflection of Stanley's current customer service, then that is a sad thing, given the history of the brand. Does anyone else have current experience, good or bad, of dealing with Stanley?

In Deutschland sind Stanley, Black & Decker, Dewalt, Elu, Mowmax und Berner zu einem Kundendienst und wohl auch zu einer Firma fusioniert - ich befürchte, daß von der früheren Tradition von Stanley nicht mehr viel übrig ist. Was ich dort erlebt habe ist abschreckend, obgleich ich vorher die Produkte sehr geschätzt habe.

Hi, sorry my typing! It's mail@womadeod.co.uk