harrysin

You no doubt remember that Bernie recently was presented with a Tormek T7 sharpening system together with accessories by his wonderful wife and that I answered by saying that I had emailed a copy of Bernie's post to MY wife.
Well, eventually my wife realised why I had sent her a woodworking link and instead of laughing as I expected, she simply asked how much they cost and even after I found the current price of $995.00 PLUS accessories she said that she would pay for one! Being close to 75 years of age and already fearful of buying green bananas, I agonised over it and decided that such expense wasn't justified, however, at the annual Perth wood show that I went to yesterday, apart from the T7, there was a model 1206 being demonstrated and cost $539.00, it's smaller but I was assured that it did everything that the T7 did and all except one of the T7's accessories fitted. I settled for one of these plus the profiled leather honing kit, gouge kit and stone grader. Yes, my angel of a wife has promised to pay a cheque into my account next week.
The moral of this storey my friends is try it for yourselves, like me you may be pleasantly surprised by the result.
The only other goodies that I bought were some assorted hinges for future boxes, a cutting wheel to make a hollowing tool and last but not least an unusual hollowing tool that I watched being demonstrated by a very able guy who is in the Australian navy, now shore based and lives right here in Rockingham and is a very good friend of Chippypah (Pete) in England who told me to introduce myself to him, which I of course did.

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Harry

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Good day Harry

You get everything,

I really like the sharpening system,,,,,,, and all you did was ask,,,,, I never tried that approach, and just when I thought I had exhausted all the methods for getting a new tool, WHAM!, BANG, the up front "just ask" approach. Gotta love it.

Great purchase and now you will have the sharpest tools on the street. My bits are in the mail...

Have a fine day
John

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John

Cleaning my glasses will not make me look any better, but will make what I'm looking at better!

challagan

Congrats on the new tool and a great one at that. Have fun Harry!

Corey

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jw2170

I wonder if that trick would work for a new table saw....

Rgds
James

Dr.Zook

LUCKY, LUCKY you Harry. getting a Tormek 1206 and getting a wonderful mate like Marlene. Yes very LUCKY. Congrats on both accounts.

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Dave
the "Doctor"

In woodworking there is no scrap, only firewood.

Glenmore

Harry you have to take the sharpener out of the box. To use it Nice selction of tools have fun with them.

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Glenmore

Days without wood working are days not worth getting up for.

oldnewbie

"Way to go, Harry. You just keep getting sharper in your old age. )

Neal

curiousgeorge

Good on you, Harry. Nice score! I'm proud for you.

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George

PLEASE! PLEASE! Fill in your first name and location in your profile. I like to know who you are and where you are from. If you don't want me to know who you are, then I don't want to talk to you.

chippypah

Well Harry you are now ready for the super sharp tools, now don't hurt yourself.
Cheers
Pete

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Neil Moon

Well done Harry!!!!!!!!! Marlene is a star!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Neil