What Did You Buy Today?

Janderso said:
https://housemade.us/products/ultimate-bundle
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Haven't seen those before. Neat looking design.

The KMG is probably a lot heavier (good and bad). The standard tooling arms are 1-1/2 cold rolled solid square. They're an armful with a wheel or platen mounted on them. Although the SGA-1 is on a square tube. (You can feel it spring a little in use, not too keen on that)

There's so many people making these things now. There's a lot of neat ideas going around, either to buy or clone at home.
 
dkemppai said:
Reminds of a quote about the business of knife making I heard somewhere:
"If I had a million dollars, I'd make knives until it was all gone."
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A variation of which is "How do you make a small fortune in XXXX?"
XXXX can be just about any hobby: machining, or airplanes, or horses, or race cars, or sailboats ...
answer: "Start with a large fortune."
 
I thought I’d go on an evening walk and pick up some gun blue from a local gun store. I took my usual shortcut through the woods and there were chanterelle mushrooms everywhere :disillusion:

After picking up the gun blue (and a bag for the mushrooms :congratulate:) I went back to the woods to realize that the chanterelles were swarming with these little bugs and that’s why they hadn’t been picked by someone else.

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But yeah, I got some Birchwood Casey Perma Blue and also found a nice small nylon gun brush to clean my drill bits with. Especially the smaller ones tend to collect shavings.
 
Mauzinette said:
I thought I’d go on an evening walk and pick up some gun blue from a local gun store. I took my usual shortcut through the woods and there were chanterelle mushrooms everywhere :disillusion:

After picking up the gun blue (and a bag for the mushrooms :congratulate:) I went back to the woods to realize that the chanterelles were swarming with these little bugs and that’s why they hadn’t been picked by someone else.

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But yeah, I got some Birchwood Casey Perma Blue and also found a nice small nylon gun brush to clean my drill bits with. Especially the smaller ones tend to collect shavings.
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Pfifferling (chanterelle) are the best! But... bugs? Climate creeping northward?
 
I received a few more parts for the belt grinder build… knobs, spring…

Oh, and one square head bolt for the blacksmith vise…

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The rods are for another project… I saw this build of a bolt-action pen done in stainless steel… figured I would add that to the list of future projects… Well, I saw two different videos and will combine some ideas from both…

So, making this one:



With some finishing ideas from this one:

 

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Rufustoad said:
Are these plans you purchased or just building from scratch? I bought a set of plans from a guy on YT named Phil Vandelay that seems to have a super nice set up. I am purchasing a new lathe soon and can not wait to start on this.
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Nice!!


In my case, I got the plans from Jeremy:

Gen 2 Tilting Belt Grinder | Jer's Woodshop

jerswoodshop.com jerswoodshop.com

I purchased the plans... and cool thing is that he also included CNC files... so it will give me the chance to practice with the plasma cutter (that should arrive Monday!! )
 
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wachuko said:
Nice!!


In my case, I got the plans from Jeremy:

Gen 2 Tilting Belt Grinder | Jer's Woodshop

jerswoodshop.com jerswoodshop.com

I purchased the plans... and cool thing is that he also included CNC files... so it will give me the chance to practice with the plasma cutter (that should arrive Monday!! )
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I can't imagine buying plans from anyone other than Jer. That kid is going places and his grinder can be built with minimal tools and determination! I hope I can find the time to build one based on his plans.
 
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