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That is crazy!! He was turning that edge black and blue though while grinding after final fit up. But it's incredible what some people can accomplish with minimal tooling!!

Cool yeah I do the same thing! Washers are very finicky and require super precise tolerances to get them smooth with no play....I've thought about switching to skiff bearings myself!

That's a lot of work there! Thanks for sharing, love seeing the pics. Are you running these on washers or bearings?

What was telling (about equipment the competitors have at home) was that FIF had a couple TW90's for a WHILE before anyone ever used the horizontal tilt feature... Most never knew it could do that! Blew my mind lol

Ken, so after you demag a blade and then move it through a pile of grinding dust it won't attract any like my Pic above?

It happens to my knives mainly after I surface grind using the magnetic chuck haha

Hey guys. So I've got a vintage electric pass - through type demagnetizer but I did leave it on one time too long and it started smoking. That being said it still seems to work as I can feel the magnetic field like normal when I turn it on. The problem is I'm still getting some very light...

Couldn't you also grind them in post ht with a small wheel on your grinder in horizontal mode?

If you're talking about a plunge like below I don't like to hang my belt off of the edge at all (maybe 1/32"). When you hang it over the edge of the wheel you get some rounding in the plunge and it's not as crisp... If you're hand Sanding it's not really an issue I suppose but if you want a good...

Interesting... The issue is still - where is the air coming from though. Are you going to put it outside the shop to breathe in outside air? If so yep a heater would be nice for sure! And what about when it rains?

Usaknifemaker is great for a lot of stuff, my only problem is that a lot is out of stock frequently. Whenever I place an order I go through my belts and just look around the site to see what else I "need" haha

I don't normally wear glasses (I use contacts) but I just tried it with mine and it works great... You do have to use 2 hands to get the jaw shroud over the corners of the glasses when opening/closing but it's not bad. Love that it works with my beard too lol

The outdoor venting is an excellent idea unless your shop is heated and cooled, then it doesn't work very well at all. I am thinking about an inline spark arrestor probably for a dust collector, they do make those. And fyi, now is a good time to upgrade to a PAPR - they are pretty good pricing...

Wow hope your back up and running soon! That has got to blow no matter how you look at it. Yeah I've gotta be better about making sure I don't do those 10 second grinder hits just because it's "real quick" - thanks for the reminder. It also reminds me I need a good dust collection system...

Exactly right! I've gotten some good deals on motors on ebay!

Motors are getting increasingly difficult to find these days... Ironhorse motors aren't getting back in stock at least until the end of April when I checked the other day

Ahhhh yeah now that I think about it that's how mine works too!

That looks great!! So how does it work for you when you move the table back and forth, is the bucket on rollers?

I got some 1084 from nj steel baron for a decent price

You can mainly get warping when you are using some type of peening beed when you only blast one side of the blade. What it is doing is stretching out the metal on one side but not the other and causing a warp.