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Apache Blade Works

Shop Tour

My shop tends to change as I purchase new tools or replace tools that I no longer use. I have taken new pictures but they have not been developed yet. Check back in a few weeks for the new pictures.

My shop is designed to utilize the space I have as well as provide enough area to work on large blades. I am still upgrading tools to replace the cheaper, lower quality tools with the more expensive, better quality tools as money allows.

This is my shop (as it was about a year ago...)

This is a view of my shop from the back. I converted a 24' by 28' bonus room in my house to use as a stock removal knife shop
This is the bench with most of my grinders. I was unable to afford a dust collection system so I installed a large box fan in the window and it sends most of the dust outside. I still use a mask when I am grinding, though
Me at the Jet 2" X 48" grinder. I still haven't replaced my big grinder (a victim of divorce) but soon.....
This little bench mount drill press I picked up at a garage sale for $30. It has lasted 3 years now and it suits most of my needs. Before I go full time, though, I want to pick up a much larger one.
This is one of the two little 1" X 30" grinders that I use. They are pretty nice for handle shaping and I pretty much use this one exclusively for sharpening blades.
This is my monster 1.5 horse 12" disk grinder. I use this one primarily for profiling blades and it removes metal VERY well. I had to mount it on a concrete impregnated tile because the sparks were burning my bench through three layers of 18 guage aluminum seperated by washers. The concrete tile has, so far worked very well protecting my bench.
This is the other little grinder.

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