Tormek Japanese waterstone

So I ponied up and bought one of these this week, gave it a crack, got say I’m pretty impressed, it’s 4000 grit, which I don’t normally consider high enough to give a mirror edge but this little beast manages.

Makes a tool like a chisel a super fine edge, or a pair of scissors, as for knives well, actually it’s good, very good, well on carbon steel anyway, have not tried it on a stainless yet, nor a super steel, but as I’m still waiting on more stones for my Tsprof from overseas this seemed like a safe bet for trying something new.

Still getting the exact angle right as I use the stone wheel first, which is maybe a 1/2 mm smaller then the waterstone due to use, then I need to adjust the angle for the waterstone, bit of practice needed.

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This is close but not quite right, bit more work and it will be there.

Incidentally I’m going to be selling off a fair few custom knives I’ve made, need to raise some money for a bandsaw, will be a few in the market place soon, some at very good prices and all extremely sharp!

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