All About Pocket Knives

I wish I had a good picture of this but I don't. It is a 6" aluminum wheel that goes on a bench grinder. When you loosen the bolt on the center hub the wheel actually opens up and a wedge shape opening appears. You can take a strip of 1" wide sandpaper and put into the wedge. There are prongs on the wheel that the sandpaper attach to. Then wrap the sandpaper around the wheel and there also prongs on the other side to hold it. Tighten the bolt back up, the wedge shape closes, and you have a round wheel again ready to use. You can change the sandpaper in minutes and you can go from 80 to 400 grit with your paper in minutes. If you look closely at the pic you can see how the paper butts together. The guy told me this was from the 1970's. He had looked for another one for years and had never seen another one like it. The name on it may have been Schroeder or something close to that. Anyone ever seen one? Probably discontinued because they were unsafe for one reason or another?

Interesting.

No, I have not ever seen one. It's cool, though.

I've never seen one of those, but I've used a floor sander a few times that works on that same principle, and when the sandpaper slips out of the grips that are ment to hold it, I wouldn't want my nose near it.My guess is the reason we haven't seen those around would definately be liability issues. ____Dave

i'd pay good money for something like that in a rubber contact wheel configuration especially if you could get them in various diameters

muskrat man wrote:i'd pay good money for something like that in a rubber contact wheel configuration especially if you could get them in various diameters

X2!

I know I have seen similar tools before. I can't paste the url but search "Cone Loc Drum Sander" and you should find it. They aren't cheap.

Wayne

http://romanoff.com/store/index.php?pag ... Itemid=102

http://www.pammatools.com/estore/cone-l ... 1-2x1.html

Miller Bro`s wrote:http://romanoff.com/store/index.php?pag ... Itemid=102

http://www.pammatools.com/estore/cone-l ... 1-2x1.html

Thanks Dimitri. I have my URL paste ability back now. Computers!

One of these with a leather wrap for sharpening! Hmmmmm.

Colonel26 wrote:One of these with a leather wrap for sharpening! Hmmmmm.

I use a Powr Strop leather wheel, they are a lot cheaper than the Cone Loc and they really put an outstanding polished edge on a blade!

http://www.amazon.com/Flexcut-Knives-PW ... B000ZRW9SO

well, I didn't expect them to be that much! I'll still probably get at least one once I find a good grinder to bolt them onto this spring