Easy way to Sharpen a knife within a minute, bench grinder hack required
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- This how to video shows my favourite homemade method to make most dull knives almost razor sharp it uses a bench grinder with a ply wood wheel on one side and a leather strop wheel on the other side it is a great idea for custom knife making and maintenance, it is a excellent all round blade sharpening systems
Items used and interweb links
Einhell TH-BG 150 Bench Grinder goo.gl/O9cCiP
Silverline Polishing Compound goo.gl/ulA5KW
3.5MM Leather Hide off ebay goo.gl/0pYa84
Silicon Carbide 180 grit off ebay goo.gl/h6KnTA
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Music used
"Tech Live"
Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)
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I’ve watched countless videos on DIY knife sharpener grinders. This is the first one that explained how to apply and use the silicon carbide powder. thanks
I’ve watched a lot of the bench-grinder type videos on how to sharpen knives. This is by far the best. Great ideas (e.g., simply spinning the base around; inverting a jig saw where one doesn’t have a band saw, placing a layer of wood over the leather to prevent fraying while cutting), and adding a strop to the second wheel location just took it over the top. Great work. This will be my build model. Much appreciated. 🤙
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Very good video. This is what my family and i have been doing for 20+ years. You showed everything very well. Great job. The one difference between your build and ours is we normally use mdf, all of the little nooks and cranies in the mdf help the abrasive have a place to stick and stay, but ive used ply as well. I just personally like the mdf better. Anyway again great vid. Wish this would have been around 30 years ago when i was just starting to learn about carpentry, and making things.
This’s the best diy making of a honing wheel I’ve seen. Thank you for making and posting to TH-cam.
You made it look so easy. Great workmanship using minimal tools. Super sharp knives.Thanks for sharing Sean Beardon.
The grinder not being secure to the table is asking for trouble. Roll up those sleeves, better yet...NO sleeves. In an instant, an avoidable accident can be a life changer. I'm saying this with 34 years of Operating Room Trauma experience. Great video and idea. Thanks. Love and Peace.
If your grinder is walking the wheel needs to be dressed or replaced, shouldn’t he sharpening on a walking grinder period
Another customer for the Trauma Center! 😂
I don't need to change the stone instead..just use body soap on one side to make the stone less grits 😂 the blade sharp and shining
First one showed missing parts. Second one was complete. It's a working bench grinder th-cam.com/users/postUgkxxC8HPnl24fu0XhMU_nbmWNEUoK1RMHXk . One thing I like alot is that it's surprisingly quiet. I don't feel like I'm sacrificing any rpms or power for the quietness either. All in all it's a very nice machine. No vibration whatsoever.
You're brilliant! This is by far the best vid on the subject. At about the 6th minute I already opened my browser and looked for 3.5mm leather on eBay. This is how inspiring you are! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I'm about to make my own wheels for knife sharpening, this video was extremely helpful. Thank you!
Followed this step by step and my knives are razor sharp now. I used a router to cut the disc along with a circle cutting jig. Cutting it with a jigsaw failed because the chisels just exacerbated the minor irregularities of the disc edge. That led to a whole lot of vibration. After I cut a proper disc the vibration was gone. I also just bought a six inch leather stropping wheel because the cost was similar compared with buying the leather and doing it myself. The bench grinder I used was a $41 Wen model from Amazon. Great setup. Thanks
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At first I thought “what?!” But a closer view shows the wheels spinning away from you and you later point that out. Great vid, thanks for sharing.
Anyone notice he had a grinding wheel on one side, as he turns it over to change the base round it’s a polishing mop wheel, nice trick if you can do it, and before anyone comments yes I know he changed it an edited his video. Having said that ,very clever idea and tips on how to 👍
Amazing. This stuff costs a fortune to buy... Nice to see how easy it is to make for a fraction of the cost. Thanks!
Maybe one of the coolest videos I’ve ever watched ...... now I feel like a complete failure for not knowing how to do this. Nice job ..... I’m now a subscriber!!
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repurposed my cheap bench grinder today based on this video and it worked a treat... Many Thanks
I really liked this video. Thank you young man. You taught an old dog a new trick. You keep your mind open and you never get to old to learn something new .
An old bear a new trick isn’t it?
I have almost the same setup. But I picked up a set of paper wheels from some guy on eBay. Same grit on one side with wax and just fine polish on the other side.
Without saying a bunch of wordiness, this is a great vlog. You have shown how to do this in a great simple way. Gotta make me one. Thanks for your vlog, posting and sharing with us. I’m gonna subscribe and give a great big high 5.
Hey, that's a brilliant idea..! I thought about a wet grinder, buffing wheel and what not to do the job. Even had an SCR in mind so it would turn slow enough. Now I see it can be done much easier.
Thanks for sharing.
Excellent video! And thank you for providing in the video description all the tools and equipment you used, along with the link to the music. First class job, friend! Bravo.
I absolutely love that project! I just need to get a hold of some leather and I am doing it as soon as I can. Keep it up! Great work!
He has literally reinvented the wheel!
That is a good way to drastically reduce the life of a knife or just outright ruin it. For one using a grinder removes steel at a very fast rate. But besides that the heat from friction will ruin the temper and soften the steel.
total codswallop if its so bad why can you buy wheels like this on amazon, it does not remove steel at a very fast rate even if you press on hard, also doesn't generate enough heat burn bog roll never mind ruining the temper have you ever used a setup like this, now go away before I loose my temper
Why? So they can sell more knives? Why can you buy all the other crap and junk you can anywhere? Miserable logic fail there. Anyhow it is easily demonstrated. Buy two of the same knife. Keep one the way it is, sharpen the other your way a few times. See what happens. Maybe OK for cheap knives but if you care about fine cutlery then listening to a clown like you is foolish. I'm sure you are more of a keyboard warrior than any thing else so my expectations are about as high as you forming better than a half ass syllogism.
Minimizing overheating is about technique. This in the same way that one can burn out a drill bit if they don’t know what their doing with it.
I have been thinking about buying/making a power knife sharpening system. While I want to get a beld sander it is more expensive to buy and much harder for me to make. Your system seems inexpensive and rather easy to make. Thanks for such a nice video.
The A&E are awaiting your arrival mate. OMG, just how many basic shop safety rules has been broken !
Absolutely captivating watching those skills.
A plywood wheel with simply polish works good if the knife isn't dull behind use I made one and it works great after only a few minutes of using
That is a really awsome idea .
Very nice work with some bonus hacks on other tools thrown in - love the inverted jigsaw.
Great job. I have some MDF and a spare grinder laying around just for this kind of project. I like the carbide and glue idea. Of course, it's a good example of why we should wear safety glasses, again.
I saw this ideea first at Izzy Swan's woodworking channel. But I also like this approach too.
Man you're an artist
So professional
This is great! I love that you reversed the spin direction too to make is safer.
Brilliant...ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. THANK YOU. X
I like how you impervious and use the equipment that is already used very smart keep it up good job
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Best tutorial i have seen yet on this. Youre a rockstar dude !
I just subcribed because of your Salad Fingers shirt! Priceless! ❤️ And a great hack of course!
Dude, you're absolutely brilliant! Way too cool. I loved the idea of mounting your jig saw under plywood through a hole - that's got me thinking of other uses. Very cool.
nicely done by the way! i like it when your holding down the grinder while your trueing up the that wheel! nice!
Thanks for your great video. lots of information.......for a novice or the experienced hobbyist.
Great, I'just found an old, cheap grinder in the cellar. I will change it with your conception to an usefull tool. Thanks.
Ouch, this is totally brilliant! By far the best vid on the matter. Now even I can do it. And I will! One question, though. Isn’t 180 grit to coarse? I saw chefs sharpening their kives with 1,000 grit first.
this was my thought, too...i think i will try the green chrome oxid cr3o2 with PG17 "grade" ( dont know the english word. sry )german ama-zone says "Cr³O² Chromoxidgrün stumpf 0,3 µm". this is used for finishing razors and should be smooth enough to the material
Excellent. I have a bench grinder in the shed that rarely gets used and a draw full of blunt knives.
Great idea I have been doing my knives for years that way. You went to a lot of trouble for nothing. Take the covers off the wheels and turn the grinder around. Make your wheel the way you did out of good plywood, make it round with a file and sand paper and then just use rouge instead of the grit. Never used the leather strough but I will give it a try. I just use a steel.
Health and safety gone out the window 🤗 brilliant.
Very good idea
This works great. I setup like you did but now waiting for my compound. It works even with green buffing compound.
Excellent, beautifully explained in a very simple way
Nice work! You've inspired me to make these wheels and repurpose one of my bench grinders.
Thanks Sean, did the plywood wheel today. Wish I'd wet it a bit before the glue (so it would soak into the wood better), but will try that next time I charge it.
Who are you and HOW DID YOU BECOME SO AMAZING!!!
On a serious note, I've been watching videos from all over the world, usually America, and yet here you are on this side of the great pond. Good for you friend.
Love this video! Going to try this out, I think.
Very creative. I like to try one. Thanks for sharing.
Just out of curiositiy, why don't you use a 180 grit grinding stone? Is this plywood method better?
Very Nice. I Like your project..
Very good job indeed. Well done.
A great project. Congratulations, very good.
Super interesting video, you are using your tools very ingeniously
Very meticulous, I like your style. Thanks.
Rather than change the continuity, you could simply turn the bench grinder around so it rotates away from you.🙆♂️🤔
But then you have the on/off button on the back, making it harder to stop it safely...
@@DCogny Then walk 2 steps around the front and turn it off. Before I go through all of this, I'd much rather take it to someone that sharpens knifes or throw it away and buy a new one, damn, that's a whole lot to go through for a knife sharpening. I must say, you're well skilled in this area.
@@markengland5799 I can't tell if you are joking or not. Are you really saying you'd rather throw out a knife, or pay someone else to sharpen? I can promise it's very easy if you try to learn. You can sharpen a knife with a few piece of sandpaper and piece of leather.
@@Danielson1818 No I'm not joking, to sharpen a knife the way you show, first off go to Lowes, buy 3/4 plywood, get saw to cut circles, and on and on you go, a sharp knife isn't worth all that trouble, time and money, at least not to me, I'll run it through my electric knife sharpener as I've always done.
@@markengland5799 I didn't tell you to use the method in this video. I'm not the person that made this video, so you are conflating me with others.
I only responded that you said sharpening is too hard, and you'd rather get a new one, or pay someone (which costs more than you'd think.) My response was that you could learn with sandpaper and a piece of leather. That's how I started, and it was free scraps.
I'll send you a link to make this more clear. You don't need a bench grinder, or any power tools. This video is for people who already know the basics and moved up. The way I'm talking about is by hand, and the bench grinder is just automating the process at a faster speed.
If you have some scrap sandpaper at home, grab some pieces and flatten them on a table. You grind them manually on the sandpaper, and go up higher and higher in grit for a finer edge. The leather is for a strop. This polishes the edge, and leaves the knife shaving sharp. It's very easy if you put in the effort. An electric sharpener isn't "wrong", but just not nearly as good as the results you can get for yourself. Also, all knives have different edge geometry/angles. Does your electric sharpener change sharpening angles for different knives? Some do, but not many.... So basically, the idea is very simple and cheap if you just look into it. Watch this video instead th-cam.com/video/TFGs_JAwJ2w/w-d-xo.html
They sell MDF wheels for sharpening on Amazon too. I would like to see that grinder turn slower to prevent overheating blade
It will not overheat the blade. Not making contact long enough and too with just a small surface. You have not worked with metal very much have you?
skill and innovative level - top notch
Like how you produced your set up found it interesting to watch, you might find it better to use Aluminium Oxide instead of Silicon carbide which is generally used for non ferrous materials also cheaper, alternatively use a standard GC120 JV1A grinding wheel which will last a lifetime just grinding knives.
Bad ass my friend! I'm going to do this.The old way with a sharpening stone and or rods is gone as with the buggy..THANKS :)
super tare DJ Adi!!!!!!!
A 1x30 belt sander with different grits of belts as well as a leather belt is much easier.
MDF works really good.
I use the fine grinding wheel then finish with a couple of passes across an oilstone.
Good Work, looks like fun. Especially like your jigsaw conversion, simple and effective!
Pretty sure you can just swap the positive and negative on the motor and that will change the direction of the motor, rather than changing the base around. Probably only save a few min but that’s my 2 cents lol
Hi thank you for the very valuable demonstration indeed
I have two questions
1) Is plywood the best wood to use in your opinion?
2) how long does the carbide layer usually last? However very clever idea Never seen before Usually carbide disks are quite heavy and very expensive Great idea
Kind regards Gino
A really good idea!
Well done!
The best one yet
Very nice video, well explained, but i am curios if is not alittle bit dagerous the piece who is made from wood, it can brake in parts or something like this. But with some metal sheet in the exterior I think you can solve it. Anyway, gj Sean
This is great, I will do it too if I find the materials.
But a question = why did you have to "hack" the ggrinder ?
Why not just stand from the other side ? Or place the whole grinder the other way around ?
I think so he could have the switch on the front. Only reason I could guess.
@@johnvgig, Yes, much safer that having to reach over and/or around an unshielded grinding/polishing wheel spinning at 3,400 RPM. (Or why long sleeves around machinery with spinning blades or bits is a big no-no.)
Wow very cool, nice Inspiration
Baszod okos ember vagy, szeretem az ilyen embereket.
Thanks you for you constribution
This is going to be my bank holiday weekend project👍
don't forget to post your results, I am glade to inspire you
Hello there.. that is a real great way to customize a bench grinder to sharpen knives. Would you be able to make me the same 2 wheels (6 inches diameter)? If you would, let me know what it will cost me, including shipping to Toronto. Thanks.
If you want to sharpen an axe, hop in your car and drive at about 60mph. Open the door and lean out with the axe handle gripped firmly. Drag the axe along the road. For the other side of the axe blade, place a brick on the accelerator, lean over and open the passenger door. Steer the car with your foot while you sharpen the other side. If you do this at night the sparks are really cool, plus you see the glow from the headlights of approaching cars.
I think I saw your name on a tombstone last week....
Reminded me of show Family Guy as you took the joke too far until it made it even funnier. Bravo from Arkansas, USA home of Jesus loving, gun carrying and fun loving folks.
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Oh yeah. That's safety first. While you are at it you may answer your cellphone too.
Very nice great tip and great video thanks for sharing
Does the heat from contact with high speed grinding wheel reduce the knife edge metal hardness ? Effectively turning an expensive knife (HRC 62) into a cheap one (HRC 50).
At the very apex of the knife, yes, it probably does. Good for sharpening cheap knives, but I would never take a quality knife to that sharpening system.
EXACTLY. This is going WAY too fast, you will heat the edge up enough to lose temper. Real sharpeners of this style go much slower, this is likely around 5K RPM, you want under 1.5K. You might be able to use one of those router speed controls you can get at Harbour Freight to slow it down enough, but might lose too much torque. Or for about the same amount of money you can buy a low-speed grinder/buffer. Great idea for the tools, but the wrong motor...
Very nice. Thank you.
Works, I've done this too.
The removal power would be pretty crazy, 180 grit at that speed will get the job done damn quick.
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Great video, lots of good ideas.
But watched another video, where the guy just used the buffer wax,instead of gluing the grit to the plywood wheel, simple and quick, but I also like your leather wheel for final finish. 👍🇨🇦
What a cool instruction!!!
Fantastic god bless
Nice work, man, but one question. You dip the wheel in 180 grit silicon carbide. But most small grinders come with around 200 grit silicon carbide(?) stones already, so why change it for something very similiar?
I'm "elderly" and easily confused...... just curious, is there any reason or significance how or why the 2nd grinding wheel suddenly changes to a polishing wheel at 3:28?
Just tried a polishing wheel out before fitting the leather wheel
You are a genius !!😉
That was really, really well done!! Thanks for sharing, one of the best videos I have ever watched. Thanks for sharing!
I do same thing, just added a guide to make accurate repeatable angle. great job
Definitely cool. U have watched a few videos of thus type of project, and you definitely win for simplicity and creativity. I will be building this project. I have several "cat skinning" tools, but not this one. Have you ever tried making a knife?
Wonderful. For those of us not possessed of such man skills - does anyone have a link to 2 x Pre-made wheels in UK?? Can’t seem to find one. Cheers.
Really great thanks
Great job bro...cong.