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Posted this on bladeforums but figured I'd post it here too for those of you that don't venture there :) So I reviewed a new work rest a few months ago on Contender's new articulating rest (ref. here). Well I made a set-up and use video on the work rest recently... in it you can see how the new...

Wait.. Where's the pics?!?! I was looking forward to opening this thread and seeing some!

Behold my new hardened A2 wheel for my SGA!

Just always make sure to glue down... It doesn't play with removable fasteners too well.

As knife makers we get excited about the strangest things... For me, it's this custom hardened steel (A2 @ 62hrc) wheel for my reeder SGA :)

I'd get a Reeder or an NRT (if I could afford it) with a contender Work Rest if it were me!

Ahhh yeah I saw your YouTube video a while back with those updates I believe... It looks incredible, great job!

What changes are you looking to make?

I think they will set it up either way for you... I would call and check

I would look at Jenken... They have a great priced 12" oven

Yeah I run wet on my steel frame and it's NOT good hehe, I finally disassembled and painted everything so it's much better now. But I do have a trough under the wheels and guards so most everything is captured (except for when I do flood coolant :))

If I need it I'm just gonna grind the end of the table myself... Should go quick with a 36 grit belt :D

Yep it will work perfect and swing out of the way for ya when you do tool arm changes (if you ever do ) the rigidity of the entire unit is pretty awesome as well.

OK so the center of the table to the center of the arm is 7.5"

Whats the distance from the center of the work rest arm to the center of the tool rest arm? Btw that is a cool piece of history right there!! How old is that thing?! Can't believe that contact wheel is running on pillow blocks lol

Yep just a tad hahaha, OK that sounds great!

They are up on his site, I think he will list them here tonight maybe. He's got a black Friday/intro sale going on right now. Anyway, post a Pic of your grinder and I'll see if it would work but I'm pretty sure it would accommodate the offset position no problem.

Yeah it's pretty incredible, I don't know how I could use any other work rest now without getting frustrated with the shortcomings lol Yep good point, those could probably be ground in by the end user to be specific to whatever wheel set up they had.

I posted this elsewhere but figured I'd post it up here too. This post is basically functioning as a review/intro Hey guys, really excited about this but first - full disclosure. I have had Darren Nutt (Owner of Contender Machine Works) do some lathe work for me on contact wheels in the past...

That's ingenious! Now if only I could weld that good lol