Pneumatic Tools (grinder)

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DSTiamat

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Hello,

Anyone here uses pneumatic tools (mailnly grinders) drum sanders and what im interrested most are pencil grinder?.For the fine work and mostly handle shaping. From what I have seen they are more powerfull than their electric cousins (4 times the rpm) and an pencil grinder should be much easier than an dremel, they should remove material really fast at 50000 rpm, right?

TY
DST
 
I use a pencil air driven grinder on a regular basis for this and that. That 50,000 RPM job sounds like mine. It is not the machine to be shaping handles with. It just doesn't have the power, and no I don't use the Dremel I have either.
Frank
 
Ty, so what would be the machine to be shaping handles with be? I know that surely belt grinder would be it, but as im saving for a better one, what would be the next best tool? drum sander?I also tried some rotary rasps for my drill , but they just dont seem to do the job.
 
Belt sander, drum sander, files, sandpaper. Many good makers do a lot of their handle work with files and sandpaper. You DO NOT want to be shaping and finishing handles with something going a thousand mile and hr.
 
Well, perehaps I should have added, that the first ones I did for a year or two, I did entirely by hand with course to fine files and then the sand paper in several sizes. Its not as near tough to do as you might think and may help you to establish both scales to come out much the same because the process is much slower. Frank
 
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