redlight066
Here For The Long Haul!
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I wholeheartedly agree just throwing it out there. Prices have gotten silly for these grinders. I have a Silvey 510 I bought years ago for 150 bucks. I wish I had been smart enough to buy a square grinder then.........That one is in nice shape but not worth $4,000. A pro sharp isn't even worth that. That clapped out one he wants a starting bid of $2,000.
Maybe you should start making the whole grinder.This makes me think I should raise the prices of my slide kits.
Fork me! You're not wrong though:
take one of those "Gs" and pay shawn carr for consulting. he can draft/print you up a better grinder and might be able to show you "why"...If some one wants to send one to me to make drawings, or make drawings and send those to me, I can quote it through our shop, start making em.
I'm not paying two g's for a chain grinder, but I'll spend a couple g's to get our shop to where we can make them........
Maybe you should start making the whole grinder.
What are RSIIs going for these days?
Surprised that someone has not come out with a low cost square grinder. They must not think that the market is big enough to justify the costs. However, if they could produce something for, say $700 retail, the market would expand, IMO.
Philbert
Silvey's patents have likely all expired. Just speculating, but I think that their issue is the reversible, horizontal grinding wheel did not meet UL standards, so liability insurance could be impossible to get. You might come up with a totally different design on your own, starting with a 'clean sheet' approach.
Another issue is copy-cats: one thing to get a design patent, and another to defend it. If the market is small enough, or your design has some complicated parts, it might not be worth it to compete. But if you come up with a simple design, and the market grows, you can bet someone will mail one to Asia and ask someone there to counterfeit it until you run out of money for lawyers.
Philbert