Homemade Bench Grinder Tool Rest

This is used to place the tool you are working on to when not using it.

Homemade bench grinder tool rest.

Its main use there is to sharpen cutting tools. The bench grinder tool rest is a ubiquitous machine tool. I have two t tracks each running beneath a wheel of the grinder. Inspired by a commercially available tool rest.

The rest features a large platform that includes a slot for the grinding jig. It s a complete sharpening system with a grinding jig and an angle setting gauge. This a video of my homemade tool rest i made for my 6 bench grinder. This comes in handy if you are needing to sit the tool down to adjust the speed of the grinder or if you need to change out a wheel.

As the name implies this is more than just a tool rest. Then remove burrs in freshly cut materials and other tasks of manual roughing. This one is from harbor freight and it needs help. Homemade bench grinder rest constructed from plywood aluminum track fir bolts and wing nuts.

The first tool rest i looked at was the veritas basic grinding set. How to make a set of improved tool rests for the ubiquitous 6 inch import bench grinder. It is possible to find it in almost any workshop and even private garages. Hold tools at a consistent angle matching the tool edge s bevel angle.

Setting up at the heart of the system is the anodized aluminum tool rest that mounts to a board along with your grinder. I have a tool rest for lathe gouges and a more standard to. Feb 2 2014 hello. The key to creating crisp sharp cutting edges.

I just finished a new tool rest and platform for my bench grinder. In this video i. If your grinder lacks an adjustable tool rest make angled wood blocks to replicate the angle build a tool holding jig from our plans see more resources below or replace the factory supplied tool rest with an aftermarket model.