Thread: What Do You Have In The Mail Right Now?

The leather side is all cut to h-e-double hockey sticks.
The side shown is likely salvageable, just the edges are messed up.
I may be able to trim the edges or sand them round.

Tom has me wanting one of those too Shaun, nice find. I have some horsehide for you.

Actually these arrived today to help facilitate the building of a few loom strops over here in the middle of the country..

Now I can finally start to lay out the project.

Scored this beauty that should be arriving in a week.

Sorry if I outbid any fellow members here. If you are a not an SRP member, then all I can say is ...

Looks good Al. It should be an awesome shaver.

Just arrived, a 6” diamond wheel for the shop grinder in 300 grit..

Hopefully extend the life of my gouges.
May find a spot in my restoration work as well.
Have no intention of running it wet so bye bye warranty,,

What speed is your grinder?

3500 rpm sadly.
so I may need to retool a spare furnace blower motor for this wheel. Slower rpm will help reduce grinder wear as well on the tools.

I see Rikon has a low speed grinder put. It made my mind wander to making a grinder too. In theory single wheel, low speed should make for a good sharpener for chisels and drills bits. It you get the speed low you can set up a drip and wet/damp drip too. At 3500 it would be an awful mess.

Ha, zactly where my mind wandered.
As I was thinking about the speed, then a stand alone, 1 sided motor mount, then a drip pan for cooler, spark free grinding, it got me to either a furnace fan, or maybe a wall fan motor from work. We go through those like gang busters and they have a strong industrial motor on them. Advantage of a one sided dedicated unit is I can make some specific jigs up for what I’m sharpening on it.

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