Grind bench improvement!

Smallshop

Smallshop

KNIFE MAKER
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here's the grind bench. I normally have about 4 attachments and various other stuff on top collecting dust. Then I have to clean anything just to use it.....So here's my improvement. Crude, quick, and MOBILE! I love it already! I can setup quick and then roll it out of the "fallout zone"!

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Von Gruff said:
Very nice set-up Ted. It makes my shed look very slovenly indeed.
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I'm typically very messy. I usually clean for photos....lol. I have always been amazed by guys with super clean shops...and while I have been machining for a lot of years, I haven't been able to sustain an environment that is "amazing"....I've come to the realization that beautiful craftsmanship can come from any sort of shop depending upon the set of hands working in that shop....
 
very smart solution. I have PVC pipe under the top shelf of my lathe stand. I slide the attachment into the pipe... which was a fine solution until I began running out of shop space. Now my attachments are hanging out into my space. Mounting them vertically makes much more sense. Please keep the ideas coming so I can keep stealing them!
 
Smallshop said:
I'm typically very messy. I usually clean for photos....lol. I have always been amazed by guys with super clean shops...and while I have been machining for a lot of years, I haven't been able to sustain an environment that is "amazing"....I've come to the realization that beautiful craftsmanship can come from any sort of shop depending upon the set of hands working in that shop....
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I agree, I'm a slob in my shop but I'm trying to get better? My problem is I set something down and spend 10 min looking for it in my mess!! Not very efficient! Gotta get better. Have a bench going in my new Man Cave for finishing work and glueing up scales, heat treating blades etc... basement shop going to have the Grinder and for lack of words the "DIRTY" jobs. Going to use "CLEAN" bench for my reloading too. I cast my own Bullets and reload too.
 
My shed gets used for all my woodwork including furniture making, rifle stocks from the blank, knife making and any other little project that I get an itch to try. I built a motor cycle from the ground up, that is made the frame, forks, seat, tank, guards and all the controll pieces (bars, pegs gear shifter eyc) 1940 styled and hard tailed that I rode a lot of miles on. Restored a couple as well at one time and stretched a van as well back then so there is lots of "other stuff" that has happened that brings mess to various parts of the shed at any one time and often there may be a number of projects on the go at the one time although lately that has not been the case as often.
My gun room is seperate and in the house where I do all my loading and some other "inside" related projects with all the casting gear out in courtyard in the (now unused) M/C covered area.
 
"I built a motor cycle from the ground up, that is made the frame, forks, seat, tank, guards and all the controll pieces (bars, pegs gear shifter eyc) 1940 styled and hard tailed that I rode a lot of miles on."

Pics please! Sounds very cool!
 
I've been thinking about getting a rolling cart/mobile table for the shop as well. I'll probably end up building something similar.
 
Smallshop said:
"I built a motor cycle from the ground up, that is made the frame, forks, seat, tank, guards and all the controll pieces (bars, pegs gear shifter eyc) 1940 styled and hard tailed that I rode a lot of miles on."

Pics please! Sounds very cool!
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I dont want to hijack your thread but here you go with the start of the project after I had built the forks and made a jig to help with alignment when I was bending the framerails with an old manual bender. The forks were 2 in longer than normal but with standard height, but lengthened, steering head so I could add a minimum rake to aid in straight line handling without compromising the cornering capability. The longer steering head gave more distance between the two tripple trees for more steering head strength and stability.
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The tank at this stage was still formwork (timber with jib board/sheetrock plaster to shape) as I tried a couple of different styles. Then I glassed it and cut it in half to get the form out before I could get it together to finish. It held 5 gallons so a good couple of hours without having to refuel.
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I made the seat by sitting on a pile of soft plaster to get the shape of my behind and then glassed that, added some foam and covered it in leather that tested my stitching skills.
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Motor is a '67 650 BSA Spitfire that was worked fully built by a friend and we added an end fed crank (instead of being fed through the white metal bearing shells) and cast iron oil pump. That bike would move. I made all the foot controls and handle bars and changed it from a right side foot change to a left side suicide shift. Bent up the oil tank and spent untold hours filing all the welds.
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I made some changes and much prefered the new (old Indian style) bars I made but had to put a back stop on the seat as giving it a handfull had me start to slide off the back of it. Made a new set of fork rockers to give it a better (firmer ) ride and tried it in a 1/4 mile event and while we only got into the 14's, it was still a great deal of fun. Had them a bit amused at me riding one handed to get the shifts at the right time and revs with the suicide shift. I got a good recipe for the exhaust system and thinks that helped to make it run nicely. The chain guard is also the rear brake lever with all the bits either made from scratch or repurposed like the hand shifter and the side stand that was a little truck axel.
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For a standard bike I restored a '67 BSA Thunderbolt
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This was the two van parts that were sticky taped together to make a better unit with a 350 chev deisel, 9 in diff and 3 stage auto. Had to use a jag and landcruiser combination tailshaft as I broke the first two as the torque under a bit of pedel was too much for the standard units we had cobbled together.
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I have a buddy that bought a basket case Servi-Car about 30 years ago to build as a winter project. He built it in his living room, and when spring rolled around he coudn't get it out. It still sits in the corner of his living room to this day. No, he isn't married.
 
I have always had a list of wants larger than the pocket book that might have bought them so the logical and very rewarding solution was to make them. With the knives it was because I lost one in the 70's that I had bought and I dont like to waste money so made one instead. Have been doing it ever since on and off as I refined the patern and style of knife a little and it seems to have morphed into making them almost comercially. It was rifle stocks that was my first love as far as making things go though, and have been priveledged to work on a number for myself and a number of others as well. That too started in the 60's, when I got a little rimfire with a broken stock so made one for it and found that I could do a reasonable job but more importantly found that I realy liked doing it. The last one I built for myself from a gifted claro blank that would have cost $1500 if I had had to buy it here. I have a whole album of lovely rifles that I have stocked over the last few years from some really nice wood
 
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