Sharpening your own chipper blades

[Ty Korrigan]

I think I pay about 5 quid a blade, maybe a bit more for the disc blades on the GM, unless you run loads of machines I can't see the point in doing it yourself. Drop a few sets off, go back a week later.

It's all tax deductible.

 

At that price is it your colouring pencils or chipper blades your getting sharpened?

Really is an incredibly keen price that Mick.

I think I'll sub my sharpening out to you to sub out to Angouleme affutage... ha ha ha!

Have a good weekend

Ty

[Coletti]

Would love to sharpen my own knives as it cost me £60 last time but with them being 500mm long I'm not sure those little grinders will really work

[karl]

Bringing this one back up. Ive seen the tormek stuff mentioned. But id really want to do blades in pairs. Ive looked into the surface grinders but still not clear regarding jigs etc. Id prefer to hollow grind if poss. Any suggestions to machine and set up greatly appreciated. Especially if any known machines up for sale especially bernhard chippermaster (used) cheers

[Billy]

I think Bandit/Global sell a stone for touching them up by hand, I presume it would need using little and often.

[Breezeblock]

Bringing this one back up. Ive seen the tormek stuff mentioned. But id really want to do blades in pairs. Ive looked into the surface grinders but still not clear regarding jigs etc. Id prefer to hollow grind if poss. Any suggestions to machine and set up greatly appreciated. Especially if any known machines up for sale especially bernhard chippermaster (used) cheers

 

have a look on ebay for a cheep milling machine thats how i hollow grind mines

[woody paul]

Bringing this one back up. Ive seen the tormek stuff mentioned. But id really want to do blades in pairs. Ive looked into the surface grinders but still not clear regarding jigs etc. Id prefer to hollow grind if poss. Any suggestions to machine and set up greatly appreciated. Especially if any known machines up for sale especially bernhard chippermaster (used) cheers

 

I made a jig out of flat bar that holds 2 blades and sharpen them on bench grinder taking it easy not to heat up.

[karl]

I made a jig out of flat bar that holds 2 blades and sharpen them on bench grinder taking it easy not to heat up.

 

thinking on that I suppose the tormek jig could be adapted to take 2 blades. I really did want a wet system for this . blades im doing are all t/w 150 ,190 and 75/230 . im just hoping I can source something within reasonable price to do the lot . nothing worse than getting a setup that cannot do the whole job

[karl]

have a look on ebay for a cheep milling machine thats how i hollow grind mines

 

been searching there for sometime im a little stuck with the power to most of these . only have single phase in the workshop

[aspenarb]

Vid of my old clunker doing some blades for a mate, these took less than two minutes. Its got an adjustable sweep of up to a meter so you can line up about six sets of the timberwolf blades at a time if you want.

 

You have to click on image.

 

 

Bob

[arbormonkey]

in my opinion the price rota tech charge for sharpening its not worth the hassle