How to make a surface grinder!

Hi guys! How to make a surface grinding machine in your workshop! Now I'll show you!

[@MaintDocs]

You sweep angles with a caliper to get accurate hole locations... then you drill them not clamped, so the holes can wander all over. I appreciate your sharing. I will also try to save you a little grief. I've spent a lifetime around industrial stuff, I'm no safety nazzi. But drilling holes unlamped like that is easily on the top 10 list for most common "-ooh!" close call moments. I've known quite a few people with significant hand injuries (does the phrase "gutted my thumb muscles" turn your stomach like it does mine?). I had many a close call myself, before I said, "you know, it's really not much more work to always have 2-3 c-clamps by the drillpress and a drill vice." Tip: a rubber or plastic mallet is handy for getting the vice moved that last little bit to align with your hole location.

[@jessehemphill4905]

Drilling the big piece unclamped at 1:20 gives me nightmares

[@jacknissen6040]

thank you for making and put the video on yt. great idea and very suitable for knifemaking especially small folding knife blades.

[@lantapaukku7629]

A good hobby level grinder, appreciate the effort. It removes material and gives a belt sanded look for the material grinded.

[@ЛюбоА-ш7э]

Regards! Very nice one. I will try it with roller down and motor up, to save the motor from eventual water cooling feature. The up-down movement was a hard thing for me to figure out. I will use your principle combined with ballscrew to count the revolutions as milimeters! Thanks again!

[@RibeyeReaper]

Love your editing style. No fluff, just cut-mark-punch-grind- produce part.

[@homemadetools]

Great work. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week :)

[@nealschmidt3976]

That is awesome, enjoy your talent

[@stewartwoerle6351]

Very clever! Well done!

[@Newterafox]

Thank you!

[@wh0tube]

Masterfabrication! 😊👍

[@jasonneedham6734]

Holding the square stock in the split collar, brilliant.😮😮😮😊

[@dangerdavefreestyle]

Its mesmerizing watching someone operate a lathe, and a mind F to watch a hole being drilled while the lathe spins and the bit is stationary.

[@Paskanakki-Jack]

Great design!

[@mission_possible2016]

it's beautiful job

[@markhedquist9597]

Friggin awesome!

[@villijs33321]

nice one I just have a feeling that you had to grind the sliding table first so there is some kind a flathes...

[@ilmbutton]

Very cool!

[@512banana1]

Best! 🙌🏽🙏🏽

[@Dan-qp1el]

Pretty damn cool.

[@albitzms]

you get a sub for that, great job!

[@garethbaus5471]

This seems plenty good enough for most knives, but not super high precision.

[@ffolted]

Fantastic work! Subbed!

[@noodlesiis]

Looks brilliant… Any chance you can advise me as to what motor your using here, eg HP etc … Thanks

[@henrikhv5084]

That was GREAT :-) I really like your videos.

[@sddiymakeitworthit7512]

Excellent presentation and super workpiece

[@gaiustacitus4242]

The build is a surface sander, not a surface grinder. The latter requires being able to move in and out along the Y axis in order to surface the entire width of the workpiece with the lowest point of the "grinding" wheel. While this modification will allow cleaning up surfaces, it neither ensures flatness of a surface nor precise thickness when both sides are sanded.

[@libertyordeath1287]

Nice

[@mannsdan]

holy crud that's sweet! i want one! but first i have to diy a lathe.

[@gaiustacitus4242]

Just pay another hobby machinist in your area to make the parts a lathe is needed for.

[@mannsdan]

@@gaiustacitus4242 ended up acquiring a surface grinder. Now I want a rolling mill. Lol!

[@gaiustacitus4242]

@@mannsdan I need to build a 6,000 sq. ft. workshop to house all of the machinery and tools I'm accumulating and have plans to purchase. I own several acres of land, but the property is 30 minutes from my current home. My wife is growing increasingly annoyed and wants me to build a new home on the remote property, but I need high speed internet and that won't be available there until 2026 (at the earliest).

[@mannsdan]

@gaiustacitus4242 oh my goodness what a conundrum! I've been looking for property for years. The price of land has gone through the roof in my area lately and it's hard to justify spending a fortune on land and leave little left to build a house with! Best of luck brother!

[@mannsdan]

@gaiustacitus4242 your username is interesting. Are you a historian? I know Tacitus was the most well-known Roman historian. I was just wondering...

[@manuelramirezmartos3804]

Hola amigo me podría decir de qué potencia es el motor

[@SARGlobaltool]

Do you have all the measurements etc?, I would like to build this.

[@bigiron5508]

Really....come on man

[@marcinyyy5683]

Dobra robota

[@lapierretube1735]

👌👌👌

[@ВасилийДанилов-е3й]

👍👍👍

[@elderyoung416]

😎👍

[@indiarocks6429]

You can use just flap wheel 120 no without making all this😁

[@ПавелДушеин]

Лайк ,но видос уже видел!

[@dyadyaDjuzi]

Привет👋 А магниты как закрепили? Они же могут и к заготовке прилипнуть и каждый раз их снимать с детали и вставлять обратно в отверстия?🤔

[@unrepentantbastard9088]

Epoxy?

[@ВикторИщенко-ц7ц]

Вы продаёте гриндеры, если да то цена