The
Belgian Hone™ sharpening
stone - Belgian Blue and Ardennes Coticule garnet sharpening stones
Escher
Water Hone — Thuringian hone from
Germany
Tormek Hollow-Grind, Water-Cooled Wheel Tool Sharpening System
Your choices for sharp tools
Hollow grinding is
a preferred way of creating the shape on the edge of tools.
Framing chisels, draw
knives, cabinet
maker and woodworker chisels, knife and planer
blades and other tools can be shaped
on the Tormek water-cooled
wheel sharpening system using
jigs designed to hold the tool accurately and save your knuckles.
Once hollow-ground, the front edge is quickly and efficiently
honed on our Belgian
stone. Having only a small leading edge bevel allows
repeated honing of just the edge without a major tune-up
of the whole edge side of the tool.
If there ever was a secret to getting a tool sharp, it is
to start with the flattest undulating intersecting lines
of the two edge sides. You can achieve that with a micro-bevel
using our Belgian stones,
then hone with our Escher
stone, or swipe on a leather strop, or use the leather
wheel of the Tormek with
a rubbing compound for just a few seconds.
