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Tormek T-8 Custom

Create your own water-cooled sharpening system

Customize your own water-cooled sharpening system with the Tormek T-8 Custom. This enables you to create your own Tormek sharpening system, with your favorite accessories. Just add a grinding wheel, honing wheel, the right jigs and your own creativity. The Tormek T-8 Custom is ideal if you either have specific grinding wheel and honing wheel needs. Or maybe you already have a number of accessories and want to add another machine to your collection?

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Overview

Why the Tormek T-8 Custom?

  • Choose the grinding wheel and honing wheel that suit your needs and create your own Tormek water-cooled sharpening system.
  • Sharpen all your edge tools by adding the jigs you need.
  • Water-cooled sharpening with no risk of overheating the steel.
  • Exact repeatability– sharpen your tools with unbeatable precision.
  • Solid zinc frame with integrated mounts for controllable and accurate sharpening.
  • Powerful industrial AC motor for continuous use.
  • 8-year warranty, 5 years + 3 years when you register online.

Create your own Tormek T-8 water-cooled sharpening system

The Tormek T-8 Custom includes a stripped Tormek T-8 sharpening machine without grinding wheel or honing wheel. The box includes the basic Tormek accessories: HB-10 Tormek Sharpening Handbook, WM-200 AngleMaster for measuring the bevel angle, and US-105 Universal Support for the jigs. The rest you decide for yourself by adding other accessories separately.

Choose your grinding wheel

Every tool is unique. Add the grinding wheel that suits your needs. Perhaps the versatile SG-250 Original Grindstone with adjustable sharpening properties equivalent to 220 to 1000 grit? Or one of the durable and extremely hard diamond grinding wheels? The SB-250 Blackstone Silicon special grindstone for quickly shaping and sharpening HSS steel? Or why not try the 4000 grit SJ-250 Japanese Waterstone for a mirror finish? The choice is yours!

Choose your honing wheel

A honing wheel is essential to remove the burr and achieve maximum sharpness. Your edge tool is polished to razor sharpness when you use the LA-220 Leather Honing Wheel together with our honing compound. The CW-220 Composite Honing Wheel with integrated polish easily removes the burr without honing compound. Pick your favorite!

Tormek T-8 – A powerful and versatile sharpening system

The Tormek T-8 is a powerful and versatile water-cooled sharpening system. The machine has a maintenance-free industrial AC motor, designed to run the grinding wheel during continuous use. The powerful motor is tested for a 25,000 hour service life. The efficient system manages to maintain a constant speed, even under full load, thanks to its unique drive wheel. The motor and the characteristic Tormek drive system guarantee you many years of silent and reliable operation.

Smart features, such as the Tormek EzyLock nut, which enables tool-free locking and unlocking of the grinding wheel, and the advanced water trough equipped with a screw lift and magnetic scraper, complete the Tormek T-8 as the ultimate sharpening system for all kinds of edge tools.

Please note that a grinding wheel, honing wheel, and jigs are not included with the Tormek T-8 Custom. Buy them separately to complete your system.

Selected features

Tormek T-8 Custom Universal Support

Universal Support

The base and support for all jigs. Gives unbeatable precision when sharpening.

Patented Precision Mounts

Guarantees controllable and accurate sharpening.

MicroAdjust

MicroAdjust

With ACME thread and a scale for precise angle setting.

Magnetic scraper

Magnetic Scraper

Efficiently collects steel particles and makes it easy to clean the water trough.

Screw lift

Screw Lift

Easily raises and lowers the water trough.

EzyLock

Convenient, tool-free locking and unlocking of the grinding wheel.

Industrial AC Motor

Industrial AC Motor

Maintenance-free. Minimal rpm loss under heavy load. Tested for a 25,000-hour service life.

Proprietary Drive Wheel

Efficient drive

RKX18 rubber ensures years of silent and reliable operation.

Specs and details

Packaging dimensions

Width: 388 mm (15 1/4")
Depth: 298 mm (11 3/4")
Height: 325 mm (12 3/4")

Machine dimensions

Width: 270 mm (10 5/8")
Depth: 270 mm (10 5/8")
Height: 286 mm (11 1/4")

Weight

Inc. packaging: 11.5 kg (25.35 lbs)
Machine only: 9.3 kg (20.5 lbs)

Color

Blue/gray

Cord length

1.7 m (5' 7")

Housing

Precision-cast zinc stand, powder-coated
Sides made of impact-resistant blue ABS plastic

Drive system

Unique drive system with RKX18 rubber
Self-adjusting for load

Main shaft

MSK-250 Stainless Steel Shaft with EzyLock

Performance

100 rpm
Torque 14.7 Nm

Motor

Industrial motor, single phase, AC
200 W (input), 100-115 V / 220-240 V, 50-60 Hz
Continuous operation
Maintenance-free
Quiet running, 54 dB
25 000 hours of operating time

Warranty

8-year warranty, 5 years + 3 years when you register at tormek.com
Valid for professional use as well

Documents

Patents

To see all patents, please visit tormek.com/patents

Product versions

The Tormek T-8 Custom comes in different product versions depending on the market. The versions may differ in terms of the type of plug, voltage and the language of the handbook included.

Item number: T-8 CUST/DE
EAN code: 7392485000686
Plug type: E+F
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: German

Item number: T-8 CUST/EUR
EAN code: 7392485000693
Plug type: E+F
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: English

Item number: T-8 CUST/RU
EAN code: 7392485000709
Plug type: E+F
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: Russian

Item number: T-8 CUST/SCAND
EAN code: 7392485000716
Plug type: E+F
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: Swedish

Item number: T-8 CUST/NL
EAN code: 7392485000723
Plug type: E+F
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: Danish

Item number: T-8 CUST/ES
EAN code: 7392485000730
Plug type: E+F
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: Spanish

Item number: T-8 CUST/FI
EAN code: 7392485000747
Plug type: E+F
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: Finnish

Item number: T-8 CUST/FR
EAN code: 7392485000754
Plug type: E+F
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: French

Item number: T-8 CUST/HU
EAN code: 7392485000761
Plug type: E+F
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: Hungarian

Item number: T-8 CUST/IT
EAN code: 7392485000778
Plug type: E+F
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: Italian

Item number: T-8 CUST/AR
EAN code: 7392485000877
Plug type: E+F
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: English

Item number: T-8 CUST/AU
EAN code: 7392485000785
Plug: I
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: English

Item number: T-8 CUST/CH
EAN code: 7392485000792
Plug: J
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: German

Item number: T-8 CUST/GB
EAN code: 7392485000808
Plug: G
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: English

Item number: T-8 CUST/SA
EAN code: 7392485000815
Plug: G
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: English

Item number: T-8 CUST/ZA
EAN code: 7392485000822
Plug: M
Voltage: 230 V
Handbook: English

Item number: T-8 CUST/US
EAN code: 7392485000839
Plug: B
Voltage: 115 V
Handbook: English

Item number: T-8 CUST/CA
EAN code: 7392485000846
Plug: B
Voltage: 115 V
Handbook: French

Item number: T-8 CUST/JP
EAN code: 7392485000853
Plug: A
Voltage: 115 V
Handbook: Japanese

Made in Sweden
8 year warranty

Video

Tormek T-8 Custom: Create Your Own

This video shows how you can customize your own Tormek water-cooled sharpening system. Choose which grinding wheel, honing wheel, and jigs you need.

Tormek T-8 Custom: Live demonstration

Watch this live episode as we go over and show the various options offered by the Tormek T-8 Custom.

Included in the box

The Tormek T-8 Custom comes with:

  • HB-10 Tormek Handbook comes in several language versions depending on the market
  • WM-200 AngleMaster to measure the sharpening angle
  • US-105 Universal Support for precision sharpening
  • Metal plate mount for WM-200 AngleMaster

Reviews

Statements from Tormek Friends

As I sharpen about 100 knives a week in my work, I have different requirements than most people. I need things to be accurate and efficient in terms of time but without compromising the quality of the edge.

Tomer Botner

Knifemaker – Florentine Kitchen Knives

Ett kök med kockar som lagar mat

Reviews from Tormek users

I bought my first Tormek in the late 1980s at what was then the OBS supermarket in Rotebro. I've kept up with developments and upgraded it with all the new features like the stainless steel shaft, leather wheel, diamond grinding wheel, etc. I gave my old machine to my neighbor when my T8 arrived, because it was still working well. It'll go on creating goodwill on behalf of Tormek with him. :-)

Björn, Uppsala

This machine has made me a "sharpening pro" for drill bits, knives, chisels, axes, etc. It's really satisfying to finally have sharp tools, instantly habit forming :)

Ola, Västra Götaland

An excellent machine of good quality

Nils-Göran, Östergötland

An excellent machine of good quality

Nils-Göran, Östergötland