Post by modernist on Mar 25, 2008 23:20:14 GMT
I have used my Tormek wetstone for some time and found it excellent for cool grinding of all irons.
I had my doubts about the lapping wheel as I thought it inevetable that it would round over the edge. I tried one of two but didn't really use them and stiuck to my waterstone for general use. Time passed as they say and I had occasion to use a 1" Marples Paring chisel which I had lapped and polished as instructed. I used 25Deg as it was a fine hand use only tool.
To be fair it has acquired a few marks along the way however the point of my thread is that it didn't even cut with the handle on the bench top, let alone flat on the work.
Nicely polished the bevel certainly was, absolutely concours
, but useless as a paring chisel.
Brian
I had my doubts about the lapping wheel as I thought it inevetable that it would round over the edge. I tried one of two but didn't really use them and stiuck to my waterstone for general use. Time passed as they say and I had occasion to use a 1" Marples Paring chisel which I had lapped and polished as instructed. I used 25Deg as it was a fine hand use only tool.
To be fair it has acquired a few marks along the way however the point of my thread is that it didn't even cut with the handle on the bench top, let alone flat on the work.
Nicely polished the bevel certainly was, absolutely concours
, but useless as a paring chisel.Brian
