Thread: ELB grinder

video of surface/dovetail grinder

YouTube - 20" x 100" Elb Combination Dove Tail and Surface Grinding Machine

Thanks for the post.

I have never seen one of these before.

Never seen anything likr that before.... I wonder how useful it would be for dovetails... To me it does not have enough reach across the table to do wide dovetails, by the time you angle the head inwards..

Elbs are notorious for poor lubrication on the saddle ways resulting in serious scoring. I have rescraped many of them over the years.

Originally Posted by .RC.

I wonder how useful it would be for dovetails...

I wouldn’t mind betting that was more intended for blade grinding, as in Guillotine and folder blade work & paper slitters etc.. Elb’s were kind of famous for that. Lots of their latter CNC stuff was for grinding Turbine blades.

That’s a Wigglesworth Video. (Been discussed in General before). It won’t be the first time they didn’t have a clue what it was they were selling.

Cheers Phil.

As a maker of all the blades mentioned above this would only be of use for some very specific applications.

With being only 80" of magnet or whatever kind of short for blades.

I can see guys who make small dovetail slides and such using this kind of machine.

We have a newer elb grinder and knock on wood no mechanical issues. But it has their brand of CNC control, I guess modeled after a simple siemens control, not very user friendly.

The rest of our grinders have fanuc controls so it is easy for the guys to go to different machines and pick the control up pretty fast.