Great video, very helpful

Very clear, usefully detailed, and well paced narration. Thank you. Subscribed.

Really impressed that you were able to go straight to the leather strop from 600 grit and get them so sharp! Nice video!

Nice

Thanks. Learned a lot

excellent - cleared up a few things for me.

Nice one.  Thanks for taking the time to put this together. It was clear, easy to understand and most importantly very helpful.
Cheers from Brisbane, Australia 🍻

This is the best instructions ever for a lazy reader instruction like me.. awesome thanks so much

Wow! First time I've ever heard of Tormek providing anything for free to anyone. Normally you can't even get a discount.

Excellent tutorial video, thanks. I have ordered my Tormek T4 and I now look forward to using your good advice for sharpening and honing my hand chisels, plane blades, knives and lino-cutting gouges.

Excellent video. Thank you for putting it together. Have you considered lapping the chisel so that all of the edge gets the same speed on the wheel? That is, how about holding the chisel so that the edge is facing the center of the wheel and the side of the chisel runs along a radius? This is my preferred method and it's consistent with the way Tormek suggests sharpening a bevel on the side of the wheel.

I'm a cabinet maker in my late 60's and invested in the Tormek T8 a couple of years ago. Once you have the backs of the chisels nice and flat, and that depends on the flatness to begin with, on how long that takes. It is so easy and quick to sharpen the chisels and plane blades to an incredible sharpness. I have only ever used the stone that comes with the machine and found it works perfectly well.
The machine price put's most people off, it did me for a long time but you know what you can spend on some stones and jigs it comes down to, you get what you pay for. For anyone watching this video if you are curious about whether it is worth the investment; it will give you consistent results every time effortlessly.
Thanks for the video. The process was explained very well and the filming was well thought out.

Do you do a secondary bevel?

Hi, Thanks for a great video. I too had a number of very old chisels and plane blades from my dad. Unfortunately I only had diamond sharpening stones and a veritas jig. It took ages and requird many breaks. Probably the main reason for buying a machine. One question: How deep do you place the chisel into the jig or rather how far should it prodrude? Seemed a random amount around 2"?

Note: you did not use the Tormek WM-200 Angle Master device correctly.
It is supposed to contact the wheel at both ends.

I have a blade (one side bevel) thick as a chisel; its 2" wide and 6" wide. I can not sharpen it.  I have a T4 with a Super Grinding Stone, I am told that the stone can grind from                                                 200-1-000 grits..Any advise  Thanks

I thought no water when using a diamond disc... Only for stones, since the water rusts the metal diamond disc.

I have a Tormek and am considering substituting the CW-220 composite honing wheel for the standard leather one you use here. As a professional finish carpenter, my sharpening will be limited almost exclusively chisels and plane irons. Do you think I should go for the composite wheel or stick with leather? Thanks.

Can you be really objective when having received it for free?

I enjoyed this and learned a bunch. Thank you.

Tormek provided the stuff for free, so don't forget to mark the video and videos like it as sponsored per YouTube rules. That will also help prevent competing ads from displaying.