Wet wheel grinder.

[Highpower]

(01-07-2022, 05:36 PM)f350ca Wrote: I bought a Chinese clone a number of years back. Works well for sharpening hand plane blades and wood chisels. Im sure yours has a beter quality wheel. Mine cuts pretty slow and have had to dress the wheel once. Old age I can't remember how I did it. lol
The leather strap wheel is less than so so. I use a hard felt wheel on a grinder to hone. Remember the cutting compound they included had a horrible ammonia smell

What I am curious about is they say that the same (std) wheel can be adjusted from 220 grit to 1000 grit or anywhere in between. The machine came with a "stone grader" that looks like an extra course/fine grit precision bench stone. Smooth the exposed grains on the wheel for a finer grit - or rough the surface up again to go back to a courser grit. They claim you can do this repeatedly and it doesn't wear the wheel - 'very minimal'. It will be interesting to try that.  

I haven't even taken anything out of the box yet but I'll be sure to get a good whiff of the tube of glue... er, um, honing paste to see what it is like.  

(01-07-2022, 05:36 PM)f350ca Wrote: Oh yah, i started sharpening my wood chisels on the surface grinder

And to quote Ed --