Tormek’s T7 Sharpening Model – Wet Grinder

Tormek’s new T7 is the most recent in a line of widely acclaimed sharpening systems. The grinder is well made and will take years of hard use. The machine includes a squaring jig, this holds your blades automatically squared to the grinding wheel. Chisels and plane blades are attached making use of their backs flat against a sizable reference surface, this then prevents rocking or tipping after the jig is tightened down. Added to the device is Tormek’s new truing and dressing Tool TT-50.

The TT-50 is Tormek’s latest stone truing tool and can make getting a flat parallel surface an easy and quick task. The truing and dressing tool is available in the T7 vijayalakshmi grinder  sharpening system and if like me you’ve a youthful Tormek system you may also use the TT-50 on the present Universal Support, but setting up the cut is more difficult. However Tormek advise you to retrofit the most recent Universal Support with Micro Adjust.

The Tormek T7 system has a slow running speed which will provide you with full control over your blades which can be being ground. The lower running speed and heavy wheel also reduces noise and vibration, giving a better grind and so a sharper blade.

Since the grinding and sharpening system utilizes water cooling (wet grinding – the grinding wheel rotates in a tray of water), there’s no danger of overheating or burning the edges of your blades and drawing the temper from them. Honing and polishing is carried out on another leather honing wheel. The leather honing wheel needs to be lubricated with a grinding paste.

The T7 sharpening system isn’t cheap, however for the professional woodworker the full time savings over the life of the merchandise can make it more than worth while to possess, for the amateur woodworker maybe it’s overkill, but when you yourself have the money it’s a very nice little bit of kit, and should last you for years reliving hours and hours of tedious sharpening.

Tormek’s new T7 is the most recent in a line of widely acclaimed sharpening systems. The grinder is well made and will take years of hard use. The machine includes a squaring jig, this holds your blades automatically squared to the grinding wheel. Chisels and plane blades are attached making use of their backs flat…

Tormek’s new T7 is the most recent in a line of widely acclaimed sharpening systems. The grinder is well made and will take years of hard use. The machine includes a squaring jig, this holds your blades automatically squared to the grinding wheel. Chisels and plane blades are attached making use of their backs flat…