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Originally Posted by PoolQs
The hardest part was trying to incorporate a wheel to fit my 30". It didn't happen.
Now ... NO LAUGHING... I took my 36" and turned it upside down and backwards and mounted it so that
the top 3" wheel was facing me and running downwards. Built a spark catcher into a water bucket and
made my hollow grind.
My 30" is NOT optimal for this hobby but I got one of the baddest and most functional
variable speed 1x30's out there with over 50 knives off the bench.
Troy
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Look, you use what tools you have and learn to master them. I built on a 1 x 30, probably my first 25-30 knives. Sold them for enough to buy a 2 x 72 KMG. (Well, those knives and a S7W .38 spl.!) Some people in Africa forge sitting on the ground with a rock for an anvil and old inner tube for a bellows.
James McClendon blows my mind with his 4 x 36. He has mastered it and does what I would think impossible. (See his forged cable damascus KITH on page 6 of this thread.) Here is the YouTube of him grinding and even more amazing, doing a hollow grind with that 4 x 36.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqhays5vEc&t=33s