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Old 01-10-2014, 10:47 AM
Hurley Hurley is offline
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I went to the scrap yard, well let's just say there was not much there I could use. There was tubing, but unless I wanted to build a huge grinder 8x8 tubing, 6x6x1/2 angle and small pieces of big flatbar there wasn't anything I could use. Now I suppose I could have driven 3-4 hours and maybe found a bigger scrapyard, but I didn't see much sense in spending the gas for it. So I pulled the trigger on a porter cable direct drive 3/4 hp 4x36 coupled to an 8" disc on the other end for about $220 including 2 extra ceramic belts.

It'll probably be a challenge trying to use it for knife making, but it is what it is. Plus I don't have the right tools to cut down the huge scrap steel and keep it square anyhow.


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Old 01-11-2014, 05:04 AM
Ed Tipton Ed Tipton is offline
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MVPeterson...I also admit to owning a Griz. I think that just about everyone who has ever made a knife has owned a Griz at one time or another.
Trying to explain to someone who has never danced around a grinder is pretty much a waste of time. Until you've tried dancing around one, and have had to contort your body into some impossible positions and tried to work around various obstacles that some designer has built into the machine without giving a thought about how a particular feature might restrict a knifemakers ability to get the right part of the blade to just the right angle....well, you just can't explain all of that to someone who hasn't been there.
Eventually, most of these guys either get frustrated and quit, or they finally see the error of their ways and either buy or build a grinder that meets their needs.
I have yet to either buy or build the perfect all purpose grinder. I don't think there is such a design ... soooo, most of us wind up with 2-3 or even more grinders in our shops to enable us to do everything we need to do.
In the end, you eventually reach the point where you realize that the whole process is an evolution. Until you've been there and done it....you just cannot understand, and nobody can explain it to you.
I am constantly amazed at the people who realize they don't have sufficient knowledge to make a correct decision on something, and then they finally ask around and get answers to their questions, and then ignore all the advice and do it the way they had started to do it in the first place. If you're not willing to listen to...or accept an answer...then why ask the question in the first place....just do it.
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