The Tormek T-8 Original is a water-cooled sharpening machine with a 250 mm (10 in) grindstone and a leather honing wheel, for sharpening all of your edge tools.
It is by far the best sharpening system we can find. The grindstone runs through a water trough, so the steel doesn't overheat, and the Universal Support and jigs hold each tool at an angle you can set and repeat. The SG-250 Original Grindstone is aluminum oxide, 250 x 50 mm, and handles all steel grades including HSS. With the Stone Grader it works like anything from 220 to 1000 grit. The LA-220 leather honing wheel, 220 x 31 mm, takes off the burr and polishes the bevel.
The 200 W industrial motor turns the stone at 100 rpm and is rated for continuous operation. The main shaft is stainless steel with Tormek's EzyLock nut, and the stand is powder-coated cast zinc with blue ABS sides. The machine weighs 14.8 kg (32.6 lb).
It comes with the SE-77 Square Edge Jig, TT-50 Truing Tool, SP-650 Stone Grader, WM-200 AngleMaster, PA-70 Honing Compound, EM-15 Edge Marker, US-105 Universal Support with Micro Adjust, TF-2 tilt feet, an accessory tray, the HB-10 Handbook and a tube of machine oil for the leather wheel. Add jigs for gouges, knives and axes as you need them.
Engineer Torgny Jansson founded Tormek in 1973 to build a modern version of the old Swedish water-cooled grindstone. The name is short for Torgny's Mekaniska, and the very first model was driven by an electric hand drill. Tormek is based in Lindesberg, Sweden, where all of its product development, engineering and production still take place.
