Two things: One, I have been listening to Velvet Moon today and I love it! Cody Francis also popped up in the playlist and I'm digging him also! Two, I'll be damned if you have not inspired me to get my ass in gear. Watching you do all that you do has lit a fire under my ass to stop existing and start living. Thanks for that, and all the great info you have given on this channel.

OK .. Last night I went to bed with an idea for a grinding setup but went to sleep too soon. Today, when you mentioned your idea , the entire design popped into my head. Now, you do the same and I'll try to point out what I came up with to help ....🤣😉😉👍You're gonna need a couple of 4 pillow block bearings and two smooth shafts, a couple of pulleys, a few bolts of various sizes, and some scrap lumber.... Oh well, you know ...

Don’t get me wrong, flap discs work great but for bulk stock removal I’ve used the round pieces of sand paper backed up on a flexible plate. Available at Harbor Freight although I don’t like their Warrior brand consumables. Regardless, it’s very satisfying watching the anvil restoration progress.

Dearly love to putter. Haven’t heard that art spoken of for a while. Thanks, Jim. Putter on.

This fellow putterer understands completely! It is pure joy to get out in the shop, scrounge through old salvaged parts and make something useful. I knew where you were going with this as soon as you started talking about the project. Happy rabbit trail! BTW - the guts of an old trash compactor might provide a good start for a screw drive mechanism to move the grinding wheel across the surface.

My friends always think i have crackhead ideas until they see the results.. Great job bro. Stay creative!

Good morning Jim. 👍👍👍

Surface grinders are very nice. Even a home made cobble job is better than endlessly standing there with an angle grinder. A frame to limit how much up and down travel the grinder has gives you a better chance of having a flat surface when you are done. Just a thought. I have seen several rigs for flattening large surfaces with a router. They involve a level frame and a cross rail that lets the router slide back and forth at a set height. The frame is moved the width of the router bit and another pass is made. A simple rig like that could be made inexpensively and would let you use your existing grinder. The wheel will make a huge difference. Ian mentioned CBN. That would be a big improvement in your ability to remove metal efficiently.

Morning Jim.... I enjoy tinkering, lots of fun and yes, sometimes it doesn't work and you wind up spending hours of time and it turns up wasted, but if you don't try, you won't know. Like I said before, there isn't enough time in a day. Snow for us tomorrow, yuck!

Hi Jim, I do come back to catch up on things peridically... Have you tried ceramic grit sanding belts? They run 2-3x the cost of regular, but last 5-6x as long. Bloew's carries them, as do some Ace Hardware stores. Of course, I haven't watched the most recent anvil vids, so you've likely solved this particular headache one way or another; still, I like them for heavy-duty belt sanding and grinding. Good luck, and keep on chuggin'! Puttering and tinkering are important creative learning skills! They eat up time, though, and have cost me a lot in the time I can't charge my customers for. Still, the skillsaw track I spent a day building and tweaking made it possible for me to finish a customer project I couldn't have done any other way, so it was worth it in the long run.

I love it when a plan comes together!

You can make some jig to hold your grinder at the proper angle and make it on the principle of a board leveling jig like they use for routers. You will get a level surface in the range of .005 to.025 but then how level do you need to make good tools? You could make it out of angle iron too.

Awesome

The ringing still sounds true and your welds have connected just fine. So far, so good.

Maybe you can build kind of a sled to keep the grinder at a certain level. Just like you did when making the big scarf joints using the router. The whet grinding wheel won't remove enough material in an acceptable time

Next thing you know he'll be cannibalizing the drip system off the ol' Hudson Sawmill....Look out! -Will

The powered surface grinder will be interesting, and useful. I’m betting on a success!

If you can build a sled table that can move back and forth and then side to side, with the motor attached straight to the wet stone. Then again if you know someone with a machine mill that could do it.

Puttering around campus looking for a quiet study spot. When did libraries get so damned noisy? But yeah, puttering around projects at home combined with ADHD and brain damage, I've got so many started, but not finished, projects that my evenings and weekends are claimed for at least two years after graduation and finding a job. It's always fun to start a project, and fulfilling to finish one, it's that dull part in the middle, like Jim's between the ears, that eats so much time. Hope you create a new grinding tool out of those old parts of machines. Yeah, if nothing else, HF tools make okay building blocks.

Only at the start of the video, does the grinding not affect the heat treat of the surface?

Prof puttering is essential to life, that surface grinder will be a great bit of kit when you get into production of tools ie: chisels, draw knives and slicks, you will be able to flatten them with ease so keep going .

Jim I am bummed out. I can't watch any videos on KZfaq do to some construction down the street (Well that is who I blame). They have caused some issues with the local lines that carry the DSL on them. They were digging around the phone lines so I really think they messed something up Anyway because that I had the choice of downloading your videos or trying to watch then in 144 quality. Looked like the lens had grease smeared on it it was so fuzzy. So how are your ears after that much grinding? Mine are already ringing from just watching a tiny bit.

I love just pottering Jim, I seem to get more done just pottering than when I have got an actual job to do! If you don’t try sometimes you don’t know if your idea would have worked or not. I just like to give it a go and if my idea works then so much the better. It does not always work out but hey I have it my best shot. I look forward to your videos Jim, it’s like going on a journey with you. All the best, hope it works out. Graham🇬🇧🇬🇧

You never know until you try something💚💜

It’s always the same thing for any creative mind. Give me a reason and I can figure a way of doing it.. but never been one to just set around thinking shit up. As Bruce Willis said in Armageddon you guys just set around thinking shit up and you got people thinking shit up backing them up. 👍👍👍

Jim, its not just puttering, these days they call it "thinking outside the box" lol, but putter along, nothing wrong with a good session of puttering

Cant help ya buddy, but dont think wet grinding is the way to go

Got to love where your mind takes you Jim look forward to your contraption and about watching anything I’d probably draw the line if you put paint on your timber😂🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

I can envision what you’re talking about.

Once again Jim, a 9” grinder 2-3 hp will do that stuff a lot quicker I like a soft backing pad and industrial flexible discs.

G'morning Jim. Kind of a grinding Bridgeport machine. That could be very handy for so much other work too. Great idea. Let us know how many hours of grinding you do on that surface.

Dear Jim, Another busy day in the office I see; one more idea that occurs in mid flight so to speak & the detour begins. I hope your cunning plan works out for you. A surface grinder ought to be rather interesting project that could potentially see more than renewing the surface of your anvil. Best of luck my old fruit. Kind regards.

Jim, good morning. I watch your videos religiously regardless of the job at hand. Blacksmithing is not my thing, but what the hell. You are interesting to watch

DieHard!! As always God bless take care!!

I've been noticing that I am not seeing your vids show up in my 'recommended' list until at least an hour or two, after you post them. Sometimes not till the next day. Then realized I "rang the bell" right after I subscribed, and in the settings, I asked for notices of every post you make. Yet I have not been getting any notices at all. Just went in and checked the bell settings, and it had been changed to 'occasional' notices. I did NOT do that, myself. I set it all back to what I originally set it to. Lets see how long that lasts. And lastly... Just what the heck have you been saying or doing while I haven't been watching to make youtube decide to throttle you? LOL Oh, I know... It's probably all that dang cussing! ROFLOL =0)

Grin your package should arive by Friday...... Grin.

Planned to fail is the reason plastic parts are on everything these days. This means profit for the companies making the junk. Profit in the low cost to manufacture and customers buying over and over the same JUNK! What consumers need to do is STOP buying JUNK. Forgo the desire to fabricate a surface grinder for the reconditioning of the anvil. Focus on the anvil end goal. Avoid the temptation to stray in sake of the anvil. Buy you own proper grinding wheel or hire a willing machine shop to do the work.

Given "Crackheads" a bad name. ;)

i had one of those cheap ass worthless piece of garbage belt sanders. i might have had 10 hours on it when the roller tracking adjustments no longer functioned. i stood on my second story deck swung it by the cord and launched it as high up as i could. i had wet spots in my shorts when that piece of junk hit the concrete. just saying.