Custom knives, axes, railroad spike knives and more. I love restoring and making older tools and such into something awesome. My forging techniques and process of knife making. My name is Jason and I'm from a small town in northeast Ohio. I've always wanted to take part in this beautiful craft and show everyone my ideas and projects. Look forward to seeing a lot of content involving knife making, woodworking, and more.
Definitely a major upgrade!!! Not only in performance but looks also!!! Love the acrylic scales! Great work brother!….. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that cool of acrylic pattern before 🤟
The handles are spring pull indexed , Pull out for clearance tighten and repeat. I can’t get over how many people are cutting there handles up Jeezzzz.
The platen is too big for the belt useless for grinding into the ricasso area. Blade wanders under load more than I have ever seen either the belt tension is to low or there needs to be a bigger crown on the guide wheel. This is not a knifemakers grinder as it is. This is more of a tinkerers tool or hobbyist tool.
2:15 Those handles are probably spring loaded and act like built in wrenches. The same kind are on the axis locks of my grizzly mill. You just pull out on the handle and the handle can then rotate independently from the bolt, so you can get a better angle and keep turning the bolt. They are designed that way to give you better leverage than a handle short enough to spin all the way around does.
Well yes and no. Lately my motor is heating up rather fast so I've been putting a fan on it. Called Grizzly and there sending me another motor hopefully that does the trick. Everything else is amazing to me.
Nice video. One thing you might consider is making your adjustable wheel's "arm" longer... or larger wheel diameter? Allows for using 6X48 belts,that you tear into 3,2" wide belts. Just a suggestion,check prices.
I really like it! It moves with lots of power and I ended putting a piece of tool steel the exact size of the platen and replacing it with that graphite tape. I however just recently have been having my motor get quite warm after an hour or so. I called Grizzly and are sending me another motor.
im not as sold as everyone else. Jon over at Old Hickory Forge tested one out and the motor burnt out after an hour of grinding. the wheel on a hinge has so much play in it that youre constanly retracking the belt. the platton face wear out so fast youd think youd been running it for months... those were the most important things ive noticed and i do not approve. unless they fix them im not getting one
I actually just started recently having problems with the motor heating up a little too fast. Had to call Grizzly and explain all of that. What they were trying to do with a 110 SP motor with variable speed your switching from AC to DC which therefore will have up then down effect with your voltage. And judging by the way the motor is wound it seems like it's having trouble sustaining that...or I just have a bad motor
Well from what I understand some people have been getting motors that over heated quite fast with minimal use. I guess some people are getting bad motors. I have not been able to bog mine down and honestly if you let the tool do the work you shouldn't be bogging down on anything.
I'm trying to decide between a grinder and a forge press right now. If this grinder is good, I can probably manage to get a log splitter and this grinder, and have both. I'm just scared of this grinder from all the bad reviews
Thank you for the great review on a good machine. Some other reviewers are basically putting it through a torture test and then calling it a failure because it can’t do what their 2x72 can do.
