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Ken, thanks for saying so! The Evapo-Rust works well, it gets a bit expensive so I try to use it on several pieces at once. I try to use the smallest container that I can, so the parts are still covered completely. Last time I lined a baking pan with a heavy duty plastic garbage bag and filled...

Finished up more parts for the tracking wheel, here are the separate pieces, and the assembly (mostly) put together. Next is the assembly mounted on the tension arm. Found this "T" handle in the drawer, it even had the spring on it. Not sure where I even got it, but with a few...

I like the size of these knives. Can you give some overall dimensions, please?

I noticed that pin right off, great looking knife!

That's a nice looking knife! Sheath is great too!

A few more parts made. The tracking wheel is 3" dia cold rolled steel, because I had some. Crowned at 1° for 3/4" on each side and then filed while on the lathe to blend everything in. I am pleased with it so far, we will see how it tracks. Bearings are 42 mm dia with 20 mm bore. Next is the...

That's a nice set of knives, sounds like a great trip!

Anthony, no the wheel is unmodified. The bearings are in the housing, I was very careful to machine both sides accurately, but we will see. And I will let you know. I couldn't see a good way to machine pockets in the Grizzly wheel without machining both faces to make it true. The wheel is cast...

More parts made and some assembly of the different components. It is starting to look like a grinder. Mounted the Grizzly contact wheel on the shaft that I made, and made a collar for the end. This shaft runs on large high speed (8000 rpm), 52mm bearings. The advantage of this arrangement is...

I have been trying to figure out how you did the subtle texturing on this knife handle. Maybe a high speed engraving tool, with a carving burr. Very nice, will have to try my hand at that detail.

I get auction alerts from this web site : www.publicsurplus.com They are state surplus auctions from all 50 states, everything you can think of might come up. Today I saw there is a lot of 2 Hardness Testers being sold by the State of Connecticut. I am sure they came out of a school. Condition...

I will be making my drive wheel from a chunk of 4.25" dia. 6061 aluminum. I see that some drive wheels are available crowned and some are not. It makes sense that the tracking wheel is crowned, but should the drive wheel be crowned as well? How much crown is the proper amount (for both tracking...

Seems like a good price to me. Here in New England I see them for $50 or so for 36" diameter. I have never seen one that big, that's a lot of steel for $100 if you can use it.

Nice knife! I think it "wants" a leather sheath.

Made some knobs for the grinder this past weekend. These parts took a lot of time to make 2 matching pieces on the lathe. The 3rd picture shows the set up on the mill to cut the finger grips. With the 3 jaw chuck, centered on the rotary table, I made a plunge cut with a 5/8" end mill every 60...

Very good use of some inexpensive tools. Thanks for showing this!

Just beautiful craftsmanship and design!

Very nice John! Is the textured area on the handle done with carving chisels or punches?

Nice job!

Grizzly sells some good quality, low priced machines. They have excellent customer service as well. My advice would be to not buy something too small, you will soon learn you can do a lot with a mill.