For those of you who sharpen INFI on a belt sander....

230grains

230grains

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throw away your 30 dollar grinders and pick up a kalamazoo 1sm. I am SO happy I got this. Just refinished an old spyderco military with scotchbright belts and put a hair splitting edge on it. No chatter against the platen for the flat grind, no tip deformation from floppy belts. The best money i've spent in a while and I just recieved it 20 minutes ago.

I loved my old cheapo, but this thing is like a Mercedes in comparison to a beat up pinto.
 
That is good to hear. I still haven't pulled the trigger on one but plan to soon.

Where did you get it and how much?
 
I used to recommend people start out cheap, but honestly, I wish I just purchased this one first, even though I got A LOT of use out of my cheapo sander. What's funny is, the only grinder i've used to sharpen is the cheap one so its all I knew. Now that I tried this sharpening is actually 5x easier.
 
do you use it vertical like in the picture? seems like you could just make a mark on the plate and lean it against there to get the same angle every time.
 
That's the one I have had for a few years now:thumbup:
I finish edges on a 1500 grit belt:D
 
Lycosa said:
They don't but I do.
Back to dough... boy! :yawn::D
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D'oh!
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That's good news. It will be my next purchase. What belts do you use most, and where do you get them?
 
any gaurantee against losing a finger?


I dont know....my fbmle has made it through 3 or is it fourseasons?

It looks like it would be good for my lawn mower blades ;) THey need replacing every year....crummy gauratee/lifetime. I need em INFI!:D
 
I use a old Scotch Brite pad ( Blue) on a die grinder and follow the old lines.
Works great!! Cleans up in a minute.!!Pretty sharp too.!
Gonna have to move up in technology..HA HA!
Bet your tooling upgrade is kinda like going from a
Yugo to a Lexus..!!! Great buy!!
 
I could have sworn my friends chopweiler used to be saber ground and not satin finished... Now that saber line just went away and its looking more and more like a full height zero convex grind. Darn that grinder. For the record, SR101 grinds easier than INFI.
 
230grains said:
I could have sworn my friends chopweiler used to be saber ground and not satin finished... Now that saber line just went away and its looking more and more like a full height zero convex grind. Darn that grinder. For the record, SR101 grinds easier than INFI.
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I can imagine.

I used the 1/30 to convex my CS magnum Khukri machete, with an old worn out belt. Removes steel and blends easy as pie on that soft machete steel. Different story on the SS edge. I munged the edge prying off some plastic bumper/tacks off the bottom of some bar stools. Infi is definitely much much harder than the machete steel.

Almost thought I was going to have to pull the worn out belt off and put a new one on there. (but didn't really like the idea of a fresh 120 grit belt on infi I was just touching up the edge on).

I really need to get some finer belts, and a cork belt to load for sure.

I go straight from the worn out 120 to the loaded strop, and get scary sharp edges (on all my other Infi, I think I went up to 600 or 800 grit by hand before polishing on the strop).
 
knife hunter said:
any gaurantee against losing a finger?


I dont know....my fbmle has made it through 3 or is it fourseasons?

It looks like it would be good for my lawn mower blades ;) THey need replacing every year....crummy gauratee/lifetime. I need em INFI!:D
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From INFI to lawnmower blades to slipjoints to axes.
 
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