1'' wide contact wheel

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What is the advantage or disadvantage of hollow grinding on a 1'' wide contact wheel vs. a 2" wheel. I don't think that this has been covered. I have never used a 1". Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
 
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I think there could be a reason to use a 1"..that being a recurve where the recurve is pretty drastic. Now ... some makers just use the edge of the wheel for this....gotta be good though! Learn to use all the possibilities of a 2" and you will be more successful in the long run I think.
 
I thought it is for if you have a grinder built for 1" belts, you can still use that. I read somewhere that 1" wide uses half the HP that 2" wide uses for the same results. 2" is easier to control to get the lines straight, because you have more (flat) surface to work on.
 
Bader offers a 1'' wheel for their grinders. You split your 2" belts with a belt splitter to use on the 1" wheel. Several of the South Carolina knife makers grind on one. I can see where it might help on a recurve,
 
I use a 2" but when i grind around a curve only one point is really contacting the belt at a time and so i have not had a problem. but if you doing something like a hawk bill then i just use the edge of the wheel.
 
The big difference between grinding with different wheel widths is that the narrower the wheel the easier it is to get an inside curve on the grind. In particular recurves and hawkbills.

I normally grind on a 3" wheel but go narrower for grinding recurves.

George
 
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