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Originally Posted by Richie H
It's in dutch, but it's 120 rpm, a 220 grit stone, with 2 jigs to hold many sizes of blades..
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Interesting copy of the Tormek machine. The Tormek uses a "grading" stone to change the grit of the wheel back and forth between "
coarse" and "fine", giving two abrasive levels/speeds with a single wheel.
Although the machine you are interested in turns at twice the speed, the stone is finer than the "
coarse" Tormek. Even the
coarse Tormek is pretty slow for any grinding/shaping type work. I'd expect this one would be also.
A 220 grit stone is pretty
coarse to follow with abrasive pastes on a leather wheel. It'll work, but won't give the sharpest of edges, though, perhaps, sharp enough.
I also didn't find that the side of the stone worked particularly well for flattening the backs of blades and chisels and still needed some other means for that task.
It looks like a good machine, but be prepared for the idea that it may not solve 100% of your sharpening/shaping needs.
[*EDIT: spelling of "course", corrected to "coarse" - thanks, Murray, for pointing out the error.]