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A very neat jig Tim!

An axe… ? Or am i wrong ?

If I had a spare 800 I’d buy one. To own and use a hand made tool would be awesome.

Awesome. When you make the bushings, you have the reins of the tolerances.

The quality of your videos have increased 10 fold over the last 12 months. Well done.

I would say that the belt caving in as you push the axe's edge to it can introduce a lot of variability. There are two approaches that come to mind: 1. You're fine with a constant bevel profile and thus you create a specific platen behind the belt (flat or concave). 2. You want the belt flex for a flexible method of edge grinding but want finely controlled "feed", so you add an adjuster to the sliding rods (probably a nut or something) to limit how much the axe mount feeds into the belt.

Just thinking that some kind of screw stop to control the depth of grind will help keep the grind centered

Why not use the die grinder to to cut your slots? You used it to cut your arced slots on the lathe.

What happened to your mill? You had a Bridgeport at the old shop

Probably some sort of spark deflector would be good so it's not blowing all that abrasive grinding dust onto the shaft and those bushings. I could see the whole thing getting floppy over time otherwise.

Had me worried with the lathe for a minute. Glad you said "turn it manually".

Hey Tim, you may want to add something to deflect the sparks and grinding dust away from the pins and bushings. After a while of running your jig over it you will end up sanding down the pins and bushings and you'll lose the stability you were talking about. Thanks for the video! :)

Use a paint pen and mark the 3 joints. you can see if they slowlyl move over time. Use different colors as a quick guide if you have different setups.

You did not miss anything.

Your need another one of those home made TIM lights over that grinder!!!

Rotation stops on either side so you can stop grinding precisely. By over-rotating your ax head past the sides of the belt, you are rounding the points at the top and bottom of the cutting edge....

Yo this setup is sexy.

You should make a spark diverter so those sparks aren't landing on your guide rods. Those fine filings will chew through the bushing.

Anything that saves time and increases repeatability is always good. Always like the jigs and fixtures vids 👍

I've never even been close to forging anything in my life but I love your videos. Immaculate vibes with great pacing and beautiful results.

Awesome clever contraption 👍 I think you could possibly remove one segment of the articulated thingy (and possibly make one of the remain ones a touch lomger) and still keep the same level of adjustability with one bolt less to manage. Anyway, you probably won't fully retune this everydayn so might no be worth the time invested to change this 😅

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How about a mister for cooling?

Why aren't you using a CoolMist with that?? No need to take it off for cooling, won't damage the temper.

I think to help with keeping the blade cool, adding a set screw system to allow for the bottom hinge point to articulate between the point needed for grinding and a run of water hung off the side of the axe grinding arm?

Great to see you thinking outside the box and creating a new jig for the purpose 😁🥳

You should add a cooling line constantly dripping

Lets not talk about the price your getting an American made tool and we all should support Americans business

Alot of that old rail is from 1945 and before

hey tim. got a question. Why dont you have any windows in your workshop?

you should weld the nuts to the arm that holds the axe billet, so you can tighten the joint with hex key alone

Very interesting. Nice work

Was the bushings getting hit by the sparks? Looks like it and that can't be good. Awesome setup man.

Pretty cool only thing that would freak me out is having the blade pointing into the direction of cut incase it dug into the belt 😅 cool tho 👍🏻

Rad build timmer! No suggestions per se as thats a new thing to see.

i was hoping to find an easy way to set up a website for my small business... can anyone think of something i could use to do that?

If you make a stand for a slag bucket under the grinder, you can just rotate the ax/hatchet head around and dip it into the bucket. That way you don’t have to pull the jig off the rod! Great design!

Always improving the shop! Never too fancy or expensive but always better and more efficient than before. If you stop getting better you stop being good! That's why your channel is unique and that is why I watch! Keep it up Tim

I loved the fabrication process. We get to see your thought process as you go.

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For anyone wanting to build this.. just get a used treadmill for twenty or thirty dollen and fab up some wheel holders.

For cooling the axe down in water, could you do a bucket under the 2 pivot posts, and then when the axe is on the left pivot you could rotate it counter clockwise and dip it in, and then swing it back up clockwise. taking it off might just be faster 🤷‍♂️

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Timothy, great work as always. Hey! Do you know if any 'Alone' participants have ever used one of your hatchets or axes for their time on the show? Btw: I like this format of video you're doing now.

Nice fixture!

Great video and learn a lot. But can you add some light so we all can see better

Nice! Maybe use a drill to taper the outside edges of the hole in the bushings so it is easier to slide on to the pins? Might make things easier for cooling and you don't have to worry about losing index like you would with puling the axe head off the jig.

Nice Setup!! Should save a LOT of Time!!

I just checked your www, and saw there were no axes in stock. Do you have any plans currently to resume production? Because I couldn't afford one before, but I can now and would like to have a good axe.