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Great work!

Those things are huge!

looks good!

My Dad has admired the knives that ive made. So i decided to make a knife for him as a gift. The blade is forged  from a truck leaf spring. it has a file worked spine and a forged lariat hook. The blade was edge quenched and tempered and lightly etched with vinegar. I accented it with turquoise inlay inside the bottom handle and in the hollow brass pins. I made the scales from a burl that was given to me a couple of years ago. Thanks for looking.

Thanks ken. I machined the tension wheel from a piece of 6061 aluminum. And the idler wheel was machined from a piece of 3" steel round bar. I thought of casting a rubber face on the idler wheel with room temperature vulcanizing rtv. But it works good without it. The platten wheels will be machined from 2" steel round bar.

Yes, it can take different size wheels. I'm currently making the platten attachment for it now... There is a spring in the down tube that's applies tension on the belt. I used it a little while this morning. Looks like it works great.

After a month of working a few hours at a time, i finally finished my belt grinder. Total cost of the build was a little under $300. The priciest part being the motor courtesy of Harbor Freight($119.00 with the 20% off coupon). Secondly, the contact wheel from Grizzly($79.00). Everything else was fabricated by myself with exception of the pillow blocks(Ebay $24.00 pr.). The majority of the steel was scrap pieces and recycled parts. All that is left to do is mount the ON/Off switch.

Ive been building my grinder in my spare time too. all with scrap pieces and I found that in order to adjust the belt better. I had to crown the tensioner pulley slightly. The pulley on the motor was left flat. i should have it running by this weekend.

looks really good!

nice! great shape overall.

excxellent execution!

really nice work!

A striking anvil may be on my list of future projects. yours came out really nice.

Absolutely, thank you.

The anvil did have repairs made on the face. However, they were done professionally and looks incredible! It looks like I got a good price on it if he originally was asking450$. I am going to join SWABA. However, because of my job I will not be able to attend the meeting in December.

After a of years of flattening my Harbor freight ASO, i decided i needed a nice anvil. everytime i came across one for sale, i never had the money. After a few months, i came across an anvil on craigslist, it just so happened that i had the money. So , the following weekend i went down to take a look at it. the anvil was in excellent condition and just the right size for my small shop(150LBS). He was asking $280 for it and after chatting a while, i offered him $250. I brought it home and made a pair of tongs on it. it works great.

thats a great design!

im currently building my own belt grinder from a design i found on youtube. He claims that he built his grinder for about $100. Ive found that i have spent about $200 so far. i still need a 1.5 HP motor to run it. By my estimations, i will have probably spent around $350 for everything. However, a new "factory" made grinder will set you back a couple of thousand dollars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ONrJB5sDQk&feature=share&list=UL5ONrJB5sDQk

not bad.

great work!

yep, looks way better after.

take look at this video.

beautiful work!

Wow. nice find. Our land fill doesnt allow us to take anything out. Ive seen a couple of things that i would love to "recycle".

i just purchased a contact wheel from Grizzly tools. Its 10" in dia. and 2" wide with a 3/8" rubber face. Ive priced several others and found this one to be the most affordable ($80 U.S.). I am in the process of building my belt grinder as well and ive just about sourced everything. I figure, when im finished with it, i will have spent about $300 including 2"X72"belts that i purchased on Ebay for 12$ a pair.

As a reference, if you look on the website, CNCcookbook.com there are several designs and blue prints for some really great DIY belt grinders.

A basic search on ebay yielded pulleys sold individually or by the pair, ranging from 17$-50$. Good luck with your belt grinder.