Homemade Bench Grinder Tool Rest

Bench grinder tool rest the last part of getting into different types of wheels is the tool rest.

Homemade bench grinder tool rest.

This is used to place the tool you are working on to when not using it. This a video of my homemade tool rest i made for my 6 bench grinder. The first tool rest i looked at was the veritas basic grinding set. In this video i.

The rest features a large platform that includes a slot for the grinding jig. Setting up at the heart of the system is the anodized aluminum tool rest that mounts to a board along with your grinder. Its made with cherry plywood cherry and maple. Then remove burrs in freshly cut materials and other tasks of manual roughing.

Homemade bench grinder rest constructed from plywood aluminum track fir bolts and wing nuts. It s a complete sharpening system with a grinding jig and an angle setting gauge. The bench grinder tool rest is a ubiquitous machine tool. I have a tool rest for lathe gouges and a more standard to.

The key to creating crisp sharp cutting edges. As the name implies this is more than just a tool rest. Hold tools at a consistent angle matching the tool edge s bevel angle. How to make a set of improved tool rests for the ubiquitous 6 inch import bench grinder.

This one is from harbor freight and it needs help. Inspired by a commercially available tool rest. I just finished a new tool rest and platform for my 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.

It is possible to find it in almost any workshop and even private garages. 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. I have two t tracks each running beneath a wheel of the grinder.