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My conventional forge, I wanted to make portable... so what I am sorta doing is making 1/2 conventional forge 1/2 brake drum forge... it is almost complete, all I have left to do is finish cutting the plate that will bolt to the brake drum and attach my 2" piping to it... my greatest achievement so far has been my knife grinder.... it is really the first time I ever attempted to build something like this, and I am really happy in how it turned out.... I took some of the best design aspects that I could find in the market place and then made some additional changes to it that I think make it probably one of the best grinders around... One thing that I did that I have not seen on any other grinder either commercial or homemade, is that in addition to the tool arms being able to be taken off and installed with lightening speed, I also made my tool rest to be like my tool arms... I can take it on and off with ease and I can adjust the distance away from the belt with ease. This allows me to make myself several different sizes/shapes of tool rests, and I can take them on and off just like I would a tool arm. I made my own platen and I even built a tool arm tree for storing my tool arms... now all I need to do is fill it up with some goodies... I am currently building a small radius tool arm that I designed, Norm Coote, that manufactures the Coote grinder fabricated the items that I needed for the project, and once my bearings that I ordered come in I should be able to finish putting it together...