Almost done with my 2"x72" knife Grinder

[Bama]

Been buying parts and working on it all I like is getting belts and some mounting. What do ya think.

 

[Keith_H]

Looks great! I didn't see the drive pulley on the motor, I was wondering how much slower the grinder will run with the smaller drive wheel.

 

[bikermikearchery]

Looks like you did some rethinking in the basic NWG. I really love mine.

Every place there was an adjustment bolt on mine, I doubled it.

I put my motor on a hinged plate Uses the motor weight for tension. Makes changing the pulley gearing a 5 second job.

 

[Bama]

I cheated and bought the nwg kit. I bought the plans and had a hard time buying the steel no one wanted to sell in the small quantities I needed so I bought the kit and I dont regret it one bit cost about 100-150 more but saved a lot of time. yeah I messed up and bought the small drive wheel I will see what I think and go from there. Yours looks nice I like the motor mounting could you send me some more pics of the motor mounting the other side interested in doing that, and I havent built my flat platent yet was it pretty easy?

 

[bikermikearchery]

I know what you mean about finding the wright size of material. I spent a lot of hours scrounging for 1 3/4" square tubing. It was so hard to find that when I helped to make a grinder for a friend I cut up an old stationary bike for the up-rights.

 

[JTknives]

I know how excyting it feals to be allmost done. i have built one NWG and now am building a KMG clone and it is so much fun. I went way over board with my new one but o well its allmost done.

 

[amcardon]

I know how excyting it feals to be allmost done. i have built one NWG and now am building a KMG clone and it is so much fun. I went way over board with my new one but o well its allmost done.

Understatement of the month!

Yours looks great, by the way. Nice and clean. Maybe once I'm done with grad school I'll be able to convince my wife to let me have a real grinder rather than a 1x42 wannabe...

 

[go mike]

I know what you mean about finding the wright size of material. I spent a lot of hours scrounging for 1 3/4" square tubing. It was so hard to find that when I helped to make a grinder for a friend I cut up an old stationary bike for the up-rights.

I'm still workin on mine, but I just bought a half stick of 2" square x 3/16" walls (12 feet long) and I'm using it for the whole frame. It'll be a little difficult, but it sure beats going from machine shop to machine shop trying to find what I need. All in all, I'm looking at $350 total at this point.

 

[bikermikearchery]

I have a small wheel tool arm, 10" wheel tool arm, and flat platen tool arm. The flat platen uses a 2" contact wheel for the top idler, and a 3" contact for the bottom idler. That set up gives me a lot of radiesis to work with.
At this point I have around $750.00 invested.