[TheForge] RE: belt sanders?

[Lynn Emrich]

Justin and all,
I have had a Coote grinder for the last 4 years and
find it more than adequate for my knife and sword
making chores. If you have a little extra cash the KMG
is the best made rig I have seen.
Google Coote for their web site and I would recomend
the 10" wheel.
Lynn


--- Bob Ehrenberger <eforge at marktwain.net> wrote:

> Justin,
> 
> My son is a full time knife maker and has 3 sanders,
> a 2x48 Kalimazo, a 2x72
> Bader #2, a 2x72 KMG.  The Kalimazo is fine for
> handle material and general
> deburing but is a bit lacking for knife blades. The
> Bader does great at
> hollow gitnding but it's flat and small wheel
> attachments are a pain and
> don't track well. The KMG is hands down the best
> grinder of the bunch the
> attachments are easy to change and track. The KMG is
> also about half as
> expensive as the Bader. To be fare he got the Bader
> used and it had a lot of
> hours on it so a new one may perform better, but
> given the price difference
> and the quality of the KMG that's what I'd
> recommend.
> 
> My son doesn't use any special jigs for grinding. 
> From what I've heard they
> are only usefull for large runs of duplicate blades,
> since they are hard to
> set up and adjust.  All the knife makers I know do
> their blades freehand.
> 
> The one modification he made on the KMG was adding a
> ceramic backing plate
> on the flat grinding attachment, it runs cooler and
> stays flat longer than
> the steel backing plate that is standard.
> 
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> 
> ----Original Message ---
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:24:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Justin Fellenz <sunironworks at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [TheForge] belt sanders?
> 
> All,
> 
> Can anyone recommend a belt sander that would be
> suitable for general
> purpose and knife making? Grizzly has one for about
> $300 that a friend
> of mine likes, but he uses it on wood and has no
> need to
> gollow-grindblades. I saw one on an instructional
> video that had a
> drive wheel at the back, a pivot wheel at the top,
> and an idler out in
> front that you could get different wheels for for
> different sized
> hollow grinds. I think it also could be set up as an
> everyday flat belt
> sander, with a piece of plate behind the belt.
> 
> I've also seen some pretty neat wet-sanding rigs
> that you put the blade
> into and move it on a slider across the abrasive
> (wheel or belt) to get
> a precise grind every time.
> 
> So such things come in one machine? I cant find what
> I'm describing on
> google. Anyone know?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> JRF


		
_______________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today!
http://vote.yahoo.com