In most fabrication shops an 80 grit is a finishing belt!! But we have the capacity to supply much finer belts than that when the need arises.

The arbor on the Grizzly G1015 adds so many more uses to a simple belt grinder. The arm is designed to fit different wheel attachments like flap wheels, buffing wheels, and sanding drums. This variety can fit accessories on the machine for every step of the knife-making process, up to the final touches. We supply a wide range of sanding belts for metals. The Cibo Ceramic belts are particularly suited to aggressive sanding & grinding. Also Available at: Walmart 10. Best Inexpensive Belt Grinder—Central Machinery 1-Inch x 30-Inch Belt Sander Also Available at: The Home Depot, Acme Tools , and Global Industrial 6. Best Belt Grinder with an Auxiliary Arbor—Grizzly G1015 Knife Grinder, Sander, and Buffer There is no centralized source of truth for these terms. Manufacturers of these machines will often refer to them as sanders. People in the abrasives industry will often refer to grinders as machines that use wheels, rather than belts. Knife makers will refer to these tools as belt grinders – I have heard some knife makers say that belt sanders refer to tools designed for woodworking. Who’s right? What terminology should you use? Hell if I know, I just know knife makers generally call these machines belt grinders. Belt Grinder AccessoriesThe Rikon 50-112 sander features a wide belt that can really sand and grind down a good portion of material at once. The typical knife-making belt size is two inches, as they have the most accurate grinding ability, but this is one of those more wood-oriented grinders that are great for handle sanding. One user wrote, “With the 80 grit paper, it removes wood from pine like butter.” TJ7 and JF4top or 2 of our more technical and flexible aluminium oxide sanding belt materials. They are both available from 60 to 400 grit. JF4top is an excellent material for fine grit sanding of aluminium tubes. FX87 36 grit ceramic 75 x 2000mm grinding belts. More expensive than the 36 grit zirconia belts the 36 grit ceramics earn their keep being much longer lasting and fast cutting making them the most cost effective high aggression grinding belt option.

Variable speed can be a wonderful addition to a grinder, allowing you to do the heaviest of steel hogging at full speeds and the finest of handle sanding and low speeds. The speed is controlled through a Variable Frequency Drive (vfd) hooked up to a three phase motor on the machine. It can add a good bit of expense, but we find them incredibly useful in our shop. Also Available at: Walmart , Lowe’s 8. Best Wider Belt Grinder—Rikon 50-112 4-Inch x 36-Inch Belt 6-Inch Disc SanderWhether you are working on stainless steel, steel or aluminium it is really helpful to know how to get the best from your belt grinder. Equipped with the right products, 2000mm x 75mm belt grinders and 2000 x 150mm belt grinders can be highly versatile machines. Seen mostly in the metal fabrication industry, the following are the products we recommend for some of the key grinder applications. Zirconia or Cibo Ceramics? But this tool is quite a bit more expensive than most of the similar tools we tested, and a good warranty doesn’t warrant a price hike like that in our eyes. Especially since there are several other problems with this sander.