Should I buy a real anvil or a belt grinder first for knife making? I am using a railroad track right now.
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Should I buy a real anvil or a belt grinder first for knife making? I am using a railroad track right now.
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Depends if you are more focused on stock removal or smiting. If smiting and you have a decent forge get a good anvil. And there are so many different types and feauture I’m not going to recommend one specifically. But good used anvils are fairly affordable. Craigslist and Ebay are going to be your friends in this.
If you are more into Stock removal I’d save up and get a good belt sander. I’d recommend getting a new one. But I got my Bader used from my friend for $400.00 and I rebuilt it. But I enjoy restoring old machines for the fun of it. If you…
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You should get the best tools you can afford for all your hobbies/ businesses, better tools make it easier to do better work. You can make a knife with nothing but some scrap steel and a grindstone. That said, a harbor freight angle grinder and bench sander can be had for $100 total and will do a fine job for the first few years. Getting proper grit belts will actually be more of a problem, but the internet is your friend.
I recommend doing stock removal for a few moths to a year first so you can get used to things like attaching handles, grinding edges and heat treating before you start worrying about pounding bevels, smoothing surfaces, and internal stress risers. Also, good anvils are fantastically expensive and vital to doing really good forging.
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For a knifemaker, a grinder will be far more useful. You can easily make a knife without any forging; it’s impossible to make one without some sort of grinding.
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I would say, out of the two, the more important for you, for making knives, would be a proper belt grinder.
For the majority of the work done on knives, you could get by using a piece of railroad track as an anvil.
Grinding a flat section on the track would make finishing-work easier by reducing the amount of material to be removed to achieve a flat, clean surface once you get to the cleanup.
A proper anvil would be a more important investment if you were to decide to get into more general forging, as the different parts of the anvil make it vastly easier to practice different forging operations.
I would suggest opting against a $100 belt sander in favor of more specialized grinders just for the ease of stock removal, but if you are getting serious about making knives, and wish to avoid hours upon hours of cleanup moving through grits hand-sanding, any belt sander is better than nothing.
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You can manage some great work with the railroad track you’re using now, so if it was me I’d go with belt grinder first. Can be used for plenty of other stuff too.
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I’m with the others. Tools don’t ‘make the product’ but they can enhance it or make making it much easier.
It sounds like you’ve got the pounding part under control. You can beat on almost anything. So I’d go with the grinder first.
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