Thread: Grinding without a belt sander.

water cooled grinding stone would be my first choice and belt sander the second choice. I'm not good enough with an angle grinder to do what Mark can do with one, but it obviously works the gifted ones. Round slipstones could also be used, but it would tedious and take hours and hours to do.

The basic razor can be done using the angle grinder to just "hog out" metal. It's fast with a metal cutting blade. It cleared out a good part of the hollow grind, the tail, thumb notch shaft and part of the sculpture line on blade. After that it was a bench grinder and a drum sander in a drill for the final strokes.
The sculpt lines were courtesy of a Dremel type tool.