Satisfying one-day grinder prettify

[McDesign]

Son was roughing out some knife blanks in the shop Sunday, so I just wanted to hang around in the A/C. Took the opportunity to go through and lube and paint Grandad's old grinder. It was like this -


Now it's purty -


Made new side covers from some 3003 full-soft aluminum; carefully peened into the end of a scrap of 3" pipe -



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