I'm just starting into a new hobby of chip carving and have started a collection of chip carving knives. However, I have a desire to resharpen the blade(s) but cannot do so on my bench grinder despite dipping the blade in water after every pass across the wheel; I just burn the tip. So, I'm looking for a wet grinder that's easy on the pocket book and have come across the Wen 4270 10" dual direction wet grinder/buffer on Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...k_ql_qh_dp_hza), and also a Grizzly unit at http://www.grizzly.com/products/10-W...ion/T10010ANV#.

The two units look pretty much the same to me, although having bought Grizzly products in the past I'm a bit biased.

I'm not a wood turner, so I would be using this infrequently, mainly to sharpen my carving & other knives. Have any of you used this sharpener & what do you think of it?