Pictures.....????? Well yes, as a matter of fact here are a few 170 gr. Kodiaks we ground this morning.
I know everyone’s chomping at the bit for these but please bear with us. You may know that I’ve been sharpening Grizzlies for people privately for a few years now but, there’s a heck of a difference between sharpening half a dozen BHDs for someone and putting the original factory grind on thousands of them.
I needed to build a totally new grinder and tooling configuration for this job from scratch. Actually two… Someone mentioned the original run we did for Bill and Tracy for Kzoo. When I think of the rig we used for that, I can hardly believe we pulled it off at all… and I wasn’t too thrilled with the grind on those either.
So immediately after K-zoo, we started building a new set-up. The new machine is much tighter, far more precise, and super-duty. As with any new system there has been quite a bit of tweaking of various components and a whole lot of trouble shooting and diagnosing. I’ll spare you the details but we’ve got all the major bugs worked out and as you can see, the beefed-up grinder is putting out some really nice consistent grinds now. I anticipate that there will be some more minor adjustments to be made as we go along (isn’t there always)? In fact, what appeared to be a fairly minor modification yesterday resulted in an important piece of the puzzle falling very nicely into place. I’m planning on shipping the first batch of RH 160 gr. Grizzlies, 170gr. Kodiaks, and 200 gr. Kodiaks by the end of next week. The LH versions should be done shortly after that.
So please be patient with us.
Thanks!
Ron