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My NWG is pretty much ready to go. I have my order of belts/parts all set from USA Knife Maker Supply, and now I need to get an order for steel sorted out. I asked on here about 1084 and got positive responses so I believe this will be the steel I start with. My question is how rough is...

I have my NWG frame all built, ( well did, I tore most of it apart again and I am making a few modifications ) I have my motor mounted and I am getting ready to do my electrical work. Years ago I did work on power tools, electric motors, etc but time/age seems to have taken all of that I once...

So I am finally getting close to actually making knives, I have been gathering and building my NWG over the past 12 months and I have it all built except the wiring of the motor and switch. I am planning out my next USA Knife Makers Supply order for grinding belts and I am on the fence about...

Hi all, I am a new member here, I have recently started working with Boltaron and my first press was a simple hinged design. I tried making a few things with the hinged press and immediately found disappointment in that press style. I will use variances of the hing press for things like...

Hi all, I am just waiting on delivery of my NWG parts and I am starting to plan out my build. I have a Baldor 1.5hp single phase motor and I am planning out the wiring. I got thinking it would be nice to be able to run the grinder for edge up grinding so belt running towards the...

I am still getting my wishlist built from the USA Knife Maker site. Today I have been putting together my list of kydex and related parts. I plan to mostly use .08 and .093 kydex but a little bit of .06 will be used for small projects. I am looking at eyelets and I have a question for...

I recently picked up my 1.5hp motor and I am ready to order all my parts from USAKnifeMaker this week, or as soon as the idler wheels and a few other small items are back in stock. I want to make a pretty simple NWG, one arm with the small wheel attachment and one arm with some form of a...

After getting great responses from my contact wheel question I have made a list of all my contact wheels and small wheel attachment needed to start building my grinder. Today was spent reading and researching motors. I quickly realized that the motor may be my road block. I rent. I...

I am new here, this is my first question, second post, so I hope I am asking in the right area. :les: I plan to build a no weld grinder. I want it to be as simple as possible so I plan to have one multi use platen with 2 different sized rubber contact wheels. I like to modify...

My name is Geoffrey, I have been ADDICTED to knives since I was a child, likely around 5, I went from cheap gas station knives up to mid to high end knives. I have had a very wide variety of knives go through my hands over the past 25 year of playing with knives, I would guess I have owned...