Fullering Inserts
Fullering Inserts
Slide these small billet aluminum pieces into the bearing pockets of your AmeriBrade small wheel holder. This will allow it to hold Bader-Style small wheels (3/4” diameter and smaller) with small bearings inside the wheel instead of our standard small wheels which have larger bearings on the ends. Although this limits how small the wheel can be, it places the cutting surface out in front of the bearings so there is nothing in the way of creating smaller fullers. These inserts can also be used with the W.I.P. attachment to create an uninteruppted plane while grinding integral bolsters on larger blades. Small spring steel clips hold the ends of the small wheels in place while changing belts.
Small Wheel Holder, Small Wheels, and W.I.P. attachment purchased separately
The image below shows the cross section of a blade with a fuller on each side. The circle represents a wheel used to grind the fullers. The chart lists various fuller height dimensions that can be achieved with different wheel sizes at varying depths. The way we recommend using the chart is to start with how deep you want to go based on how thick your blade is. Find that depth in the green column, then go across from left to right in the row corresponding to that depth until you find a height dimension you like, then go straight up from that height to the blue row to see what wheel size would give you those fuller dimensions.
