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single bevel kitchen knives and razors are ground on monster wheels like that in Japan the problem is that each wheel that size cna run 4-5K$ and thats just one grit
the belt grinder alows swapping grits and costs the same as one good wheel set up
oo that grinder will move a pile of steel if one wanted to hog off the profiles
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Hi. I'm not sure that the british made grinder I was looking into is going to work out so I've spoken to Norm Coote about one of his coote grinders. Even with the shipping costs it's a good price, so I just wanted to ask one more question for now.....Would you recomend 2" x 6" x 48" or 2" x 8" x 72" ?
http://www.cootebeltgrinder.com/prices.html
I'm drawn to the 6" x 48" as it's cheaper and will take up less space in my shed, but what would be the limitations of the smaller contact wheel?
Sorry that's two questions :)
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there are more belt options for the 2x72
the 8 inch wheel will nicely grind 5/8 and 6/8 razors and a more hollow 7/8
the 2 inch wheel is not a grinding wheel (just for ajustig the belt tension i think)
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I was looking for long time to sort this out. However in UK it is pain. Not just expensive but also health and safety cr... around it is unbelieveable. I have seen last year 2 grinders going on fleebay here in UK but prices were equaly high. I got accross this link which gave me some motivation. If I can not put this together then I do not need to bother start with razors. Now just to locate 240V motor with speed control and some contact wheels and hopefully I will be off.
http://www.dfoggknives.com/PDF/GrinderPlans.pdf
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I ordered a set of plans to make a knife grinder off the "bay" and have to say that they are pretty descent plans that should be able to be made without the need of a machine shop. It is made of square metal tubing & bolted together...no welding even though I have a welder. I haven't started to make it yet, but once I get it together & see that it runs true I plan to weld everything together for longevity.