Best versatile belt grinder out there?

I have a TW-90, Bader B-II and Bader BIII. If the opportunity presents itself I would buy another TW-90 in a heartbeat!

I'm too poor to buy cheap and you only cry once when you buy the best. The TW-90 is the most versatile grinder out there that is plug and play.
 
TW-90. I had a little money left over at the end of our fiscal and my CFO asked me if there were any tools I wanted. The rest is history. Luckily, my CFO didn't know the costs of all the other brands, but I certainly have no regrets. Been using it for two years and still have only just scratched the surface of what it can do. Great tool and Travis is awesome. Support after the sale is so important. Got the surface grinder attachment, too.
 
I have an Uber Grinder and it works great. I also own a KMG and a Coote. I have also ground on a TW-90, and seen the Wilmont's first hand. All are great machines, made by great guys, and you can't go wrong with any of them. I'll probably end up with a Wilmont in the near future. None of them do the grinding for you:) They all have the capability to use any kind of work rest/tooling etc...just depends on how capable you are.
 
Rhinoknives1 said:
My experience with Brian concerning the Uber grinder was,
He posted a thread showing his first on KDs. I politely asked if he was going to make them for sale and if so I had a genuine interest in ordering one.
His reply was, " I Can't Have People Bothering me" I just let it pass and then notice him making the same and more negative replies to other inquires about buying one.

Its a free country and the man can do what the heck he wants. Personally after receiving a reply like that I would expect the same cheerful & helpful customer service, so even though I've seen them produced in small numbers for sale. I have absolutely no interest at all in buying a product from a man that replied like that to myself and others.
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Several people have sent me emails about this thread.

Figured I should come take a look.

Here is a verbatim copy and paste of my response to your question about whether or not I would be selling Übergrinders.

"I have no desire to be a grinder seller.
I like making them, but don't have the time to market, sell, and ship these.
People take up way too much of my time when buying things like this."

I'm sorry if you felt that was rude, it wasn't meant that way.
Just an honest response to a question!

This was 2 years ago, and to this day, I have no desire to be a grinder seller.
A maker, yes.
Seller, no.

Marketing, selling, and answering a million questions are not my strong suits.
There are people who excel at that.
I am not one of them.
 
Fellhoelter said:
Several people have sent me emails about this thread.

Figured I should come take a look.

Here is a verbatim copy and paste of my response to your question about whether or not I would be selling Übergrinders.

"I have no desire to be a grinder seller.
I like making them, but don't have the time to market, sell, and ship these.
People take up way too much of my time when buying things like this."

I'm sorry if you felt that was rude, it wasn't meant that way.
Just an honest response to a question!

This was 2 years ago, and to this day, I have no desire to be a grinder seller.
A maker, yes.
Seller, no.

Marketing, selling, and answering a million questions are not my strong suits.
There are people who excel at that.
I am not one of them.
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I would have guessed with all the videos of how to assemble the grinder, that they were made as a tutorial to help people when they get theirs. Obviously not.
 
PT Doc said:
I would have guessed with all the videos of how to assemble the grinder, that they were made as a tutorial to help people when they get theirs. Obviously not.
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Maybe he's just interested in wholesaling them to a retailer who can look after sales and marketing.





It's interesting how a perfectly reasonable, honest exchange is characterized and repeated as rudeness.




I once had 34 back and forth messages with a buyer selling a cheap used item on Cl
Some people need lots of reassurance, now imagine that with a $2000 item

not including the tire kickers and fools.
 
Fellhoelter said:
Several people have sent me emails about this thread.

Figured I should come take a look.

Here is a verbatim copy and paste of my response to your question about whether or not I would be selling Übergrinders.

"I have no desire to be a grinder seller.
I like making them, but don't have the time to market, sell, and ship these.
People take up way too much of my time when buying things like this."

I'm sorry if you felt that was rude, it wasn't meant that way.
Just an honest response to a question!

This was 2 years ago, and to this day, I have no desire to be a grinder seller.
A maker, yes.
Seller, no.

Marketing, selling, and answering a million questions are not my strong suits.
There are people who excel at that.
I am not one of them.
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Brian,
I accept your apology and thank you for being the gentleman that you are for doing so, I didn't remember that paragraph being your initial response to me and I apologize for even bringing it up.

I wish you the best in all your endeavors and hope we meet to discuss knives and other topic's one day.
 
I've got a CNC Plasma Table, anyone have plans for a well thought out dream grinder?

Just kidding about the plans . . .

I have a NIB Beaumont Variable Speed Grinder.

Just got it last week.

Grinders are like CNC tables, you can build your own and save about 30% to 35% when you build a true equal.

I paid $2,300.00 for my KMG. I figured it out to make a perfect clone assuming everything goes well, no mistakes, bad cuts, mis-calculations, etc., I could build it for about $1,500.00.

The people @ DYNATORCH that built my table had about 10 to 12 hours of conversation over a 2 year period before they got a check.

I understand Fellhoelter's frustration . . .

I would rather be making product

Steve :-)
 
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Fellhoelter said:
Several people have sent me emails about this thread.

Figured I should come take a look.

Here is a verbatim copy and paste of my response to your question about whether or not I would be selling Übergrinders.

"I have no desire to be a grinder seller.
I like making them, but don't have the time to market, sell, and ship these.
People take up way too much of my time when buying things like this."

I'm sorry if you felt that was rude, it wasn't meant that way.
Just an honest response to a question!

This was 2 years ago, and to this day, I have no desire to be a grinder seller.
A maker, yes.
Seller, no.

Marketing, selling, and answering a million questions are not my strong suits.
There are people who excel at that.
I am not one of them.
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I understand where your coming from. And as a small manufacture of grinders and jigs I know how much time it takes to both manufacture the product and take care of the business end of it.
I am retired and have the time and enjoy interacting with people. I recently spent an hour and forty minutes on the phone with a customer for a jig and enjoyed every minute of it.lol
By searching out the best place to buy materials and doing 99% of the
work myself I can offer a quality product at a very good price.

I can't afford a table at the Blade show but look for the old man in the black tee shirt with a photo of my grinder on the front and the jig on the back.

Jim
 
Hey I'm new to knife making and I was wondering if anyone could help give me some pointers. I want to make a tomahawk that looks like a winkler one(cause I can't pay for a real one). I'm thinking of trying to make it like I saw I guy on YouTube make it(his username is trollskyy). Anything you guys tell me will help.
Thanks
Ps I wouldn't have posted this here bit I don't know how to start my own new thread:)
 
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