Bevel Buddy

[timbernut]

Found this little tool for chipper blades, anyone seen one or thoughts on it?

[s o c]

Looks like he’s sharpening the flat of the blade rather than the bevel.

would have to take off blades to do bevel (on most small/medium disc chippers anyway.) Would be handy for touching up in between proper  sharpenings.

very similar to a dremmel motor?

[timbernut]

Yes I thought that, quite a lot of dosh for touching up, wonder if yo could make a jig t gone a dremmel?

[s o c]

Great minds think alike ?

[BunyipBen]

On 12/03/2018 at 08:40, s o c said:

Looks like he’s sharpening the flat of the blade rather than the bevel.

That is the idea, to put an angle or bevel on the back(flat) side of the knife

[PeteB]

We do a blade grinder for our Disc Blades, it would be fairly easy to mackle up a slide etc for flat blades. You just got to understand that precision and not overheating blades is key!

[doobin]

4 hours ago, PeteB said:

We do a blade grinder for our Disc Blades, it would be fairly easy to mackle up a slide etc for flat blades. You just got to understand that precision and not overheating blades is key!

Choice of abrasive is key to not overheating. What does your grinder use?

[PeteB]

Not sure but we purposely use an underpowered grinder, you cannot overheat the blades as the motor stalls out ahead of that kind of abuse!

[doobin]

Do some research into ceramic or CBN wheels. You can overheat anything if you rub it for long enough with a clogged up disc.