Tormek T-8 Original – Water Cooled Sharpening System for Edge Tools – US Version – English Handbook

Used it to sharpen plan irons and chisels with the jig included with the machine. It is fast, precise, simple and did an outstanding job. No jig provided for sharpening knives, so I had to order one. It did a good job sharpening knives. it was not as easy sharpening knives as sharpening plane irons because you had to keep the blade parallel to the cutting edge of the stone which took some practice and required developing the skill. The result was a very sharp knife but the knife edge did not look pretty or uniform. All in all this is an amazing machine and worth buying.

It is expensive, but it's a great tool. It does a remarkable job at sharpening kitchen knives--and they stay sharp. No more hiding the one good sharp knife (laboriously sharpened with a stone) that I need, and then my wife finds it and begins to use it and somehow dulls it. All the knives that I sharpened are still sharp! I have sharpened a few chisels, but no plane blades yet. Flattening the back of a chisel is easily done on the side of the wheel. I knew that I could change the apparent grit on the wheel from 220 to about 1000 by using the abrader block that comes with the tool, but I had not realized that I could use the honing wheel to polish the entire bevel to a fine finish. (Use the included angle setup tool on the smaller honing wheel to accomplish this step.) I think I prefer to use a fine water or diamond stone to remove the wire edge after the other sharpening steps are done. I have used the honing wheel for this purpose, as suggested by the manual, but it is a bit difficult to get the back of the chisel exactly tangential to the honing wheel at the contact point. I inadvertently put a small reverse bevel on the back of a few chisels before I realized my mistake. They would still shave, however. A diamond wheel truing tool is included. This permits the user to true the surface of the wheel to be exactly parallel to the bar that supports all the jigs that are used with the Tormek system. If you are willing to spend the money, it is a cleverly designed system which can sharpen a variety of tools.

Amazing sharpener, wish I had gotten it sooner. It's allot faster then the wicked edge and has the ability to get allot better angles. It would be nice to have variable speed in some cases and a finer adjustment on the water trough

A quality (but expensive) tool. It is easy to set up and provides repeatable results. I use bevel chisels and was easily able to set up & remove chips in damaged blades. I followup sharpening on diamond stones & quickly hone the face & heel. Being a circular sharpening stone it leaves a slight bevel in the blade... but this doesn't matter as the diamond stones only touch the face & heel. I use this system to quickly repair damaged blades but rely on diamond stones for final sharpening.

I'll say that I started with a Chef's Choice sharpener, that never worked and you couldn't vary the angle on it. Then I went to the belt style sharpener where it just ate through belts almost every time I sharpened just a couple of knives. So then I said, OK, you get what you pay for and just spent the money on the Tormek T8. For accessories, I purchased the rotating base, the cover, a Blackstone Silicon stone, and the blade sharpening jig kit. I'll have to say I'm very impressed. This system comes with a wire-bound book that tells you not only the theory of sharpening (advantages/disadvantages of the stone rotating towards or away from you, etc.) but also how to sharpen just about everything that has an edge. There is a tiny learning curve (as with everything) and I started on a knife and axe that I didn't care about if I scratched it, and I had no problems--everything came out perfect. With just 4 passes on each side I got my Buck knife so sharp that it would cut through the edge of a piece of paper just under its own weight. It comes with a marker to paint the bevel of a blade so that you can perfectly fine tune how the bevel contacts the stone. It also comes with a jig that allows you to set the angle of a blade if you want to achieve a certain result. The machine comes with everything you'll need to get started. Just using it on an axe and a hunting knife and I was confident enough to sharpen our expensive kitchen knives. The Tormek system is worth every penny. My plan is to get the Japanese Waterstone so that I can get a mirror edge on my expensive knives. Thanks for reading my review!

I'm a bit anal about having sharp knives in my kitchen. I've tried a few different kitchen miracle sharpeners with poor results, and eventually got myself some decent whetstones which do a nice job. The disadvantages of the whetstones are 1) They take a long time 2) I keep grinding my fingers down before noticing they are sore 3) Its super easy to scratch the blades if you're not paying attention and slip. I though the Tormek was a bit pricey to overcome those minor problems, but I went ahead and got it anyway. I hadn't realised just how easy it would be to use, and how razor sharp it would make my knives... they are ultra-sharp... no lie. It also sharpens scissors, chisels, planes etc. If you're on the fence about getting one, just do it... Get a buffing wheel and polishing compound too if you have shiny knives.

Un produit pro que tout affuteur pro ou amateur averti plébiscite. Qualité suédoise. Utilisation très précise et sûr. Résultats bluffants si on utilise les supports appropriés. Un petit temps d'apprentissage est indispensable, mais tout se trouve sur Youtube. Mes couteaux disent merci à Tormek

Possedevo già una Tormek 2000, ma ho voluto cambiarla con la Tormek T-8. Arrivata puntuale e ben imballata, accompagnata dal miglior manuale di affilatura mai visto (in Italiano) e da un video di spiegazione sull'uso degli accessori. Già provata su alcuni scalpelli, affilati a 25 gradi in pochi minuti. Ricondizionando la mola seguendo le istruzioni, si ottiene una lucidatura a specchio; la passata finale avviene sul disco in cuoio condizionato con l'apposita pasta lucidante. La classica prova tagliando un foglio di carta non lascia dubbi! Affilati anche diversi ferri da pialla, usando l'apposito accessorio compreso nella fornitura. Ivi compresi i ferri di una pialla Stanley 50, molto stretti e difficili da mantenere in squadro affilando manualmente. Occorre prima leggere bene tutte le istruzioni; la giusta pressione di lavoro, per esempio, è importantissima. Conclusione: molti soldi, ma assolutamente ben spesi. Prima affilavo con pietre giapponesi usando la guida Veritas; risultati altrettanto buoni, ma ci vuole il decuplo del tempo!

Super produit, permet des aiguisages parfaits et facile à utiliser. En plus, les pansements viennent dans la boite... Vous vous couperez probablement avec ce que vous aurez aiguisé avec cet appareil. Je recommande à tous ceux qui veulent réaliser des aiguisages parfaits.

Ich nutze die Tormek T-8 jetzt seit mehreren Monaten. Da ich Messer sammle, alte Messer aufarbeite und z.T. auch selbst herstelle bin ich auf eine hochwertige, haltbare und vor allem präzise gelagerte Schleifmaschine angewiesen. Die Tormek T-8 erfüllt diese Erwartungen. Der Schliff "normaler" Klingen gelingt auf Anhieb problemlos. Etwas schwieriger wird es, wenn die Klingen stark gekrümmt sind oder es sich z.B. um eine Tanto-Klinge handelt. Hier muss dann mit manueller Führung die Spitze geschliffen werden, was mit Übung aber auch gut gelingt. Hilfreich ist die SVD-110 Auflage, mit der auch besondere Klingenformen beim Schliff gut geführt werden können. Stechbeitel schleife ich auch ohne den als Zubehör erhältlichen Feinschleifstein SG-250 auf Rasiermesserschärfe. Beim Wasserbehälter muss nach Starten der Maschine solange Wasser nachgefüllt werden, bis der Schleifstein sich mit Wasser vollgesogen hat. Hierbei ist zu beachten, dass man nicht über die festgelegte Maximalhöhe Wasser einfüllen sollte. Ansonsten läuft der Behälter über. Es empfiehlt sich, die Maschine auf einer wasserfesten Unterlage oder einem grossen Tablett zu betreiben. Beim Polieren wird die Polierpaste von der Scheibe geschleudert. Das ist aber völlig normal. Was direkt positiv auffällt ist die absolut exakte Zentrierung der Schleifscheibe. Nur so ist ein sauberer Schleifvorgang möglich. Der hohe Preis der Maschine ist aufgrund der sehr guten Verarbeitung gerechtfertigt!