Thread: What Kind of Grinder Shall I Get?

That could be an option too, cheers.

It is how you use the tool that matters most, not the cost or the name on the tool. This weekend I visited Dan Graves' shop his grinders are home made. He manages to do very nice work with them. Here are a couple of links with pictures of grinders there are many ways to skin a cat. The no weld grinder plans from USA knife maker are also nice. Plus they carry many of the parts.

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How To Build A Good Belt Grinder

The easiest way to get into hollow grinding is to put a curved platen on a 1" belt grinder. It is not perfect but it works. If you could figure a way to slow the belt speed down it would work much better.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...-grinding.html

Charlie

Thanks for that and them links. I think, I'm going to have a go at building one. Can't really afford anything expensive so I'll try and make one. Thanks.

Darren - have a look at the British Blades forum - there is a guy there that makes grinders to order, but I doubt that they are much less than £1000 or so. Variable speed is excellent, but doesn't work too well in the UK with standard single-phase electric motors - it is much cheaper to use pyramid pullies to vary the speed - although with a long belt of suitable type a slower running motor generates a lot less heat than you might imagine.

HNSBs idea is pretty sound, too. Wayne Goddards book "$50 Knife Shop" has a lot of great ideas.

Regards,
Neil

Thanks Neil, I will have a look. I'll come up with something, cheers.

Making razors is not quite as easy as it looks, but if you get creative you can use what you have. I've made a few with a simple 4x36 sander & even lock my belt sander upside down in the vice. I'm by far not the first to do that. I too plan on building a larger and variable speed grinder in the future...one day :-)

I have no metal work experience. Only wood, and that is with some scales, nothing major. But I can't wait to give it a go.

I know I will probably make loads of mistakes and fail and have to start again many times, but if I stick to it I think I will be able to make 'something' that works.

I ordered some steel today so I need to find something to grind it out now!

Can't wait!