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Black Fox 4th Generation Release

We are proud to announce our 4th generation grinder is ready to go on sale! Stock will be loaded on the site to order by January 27th.

We touched just about every part of the grinder to improve the design to make it better while reducing cost! The improvements include:

  1. Cast tooling arm slots

    1. We are investing in tooling to get a main component cast at a foundry in Spokane, Washington.

  2. Lower profile

  3. Compact rotation profile

    1. Less of a height difference between horizontal and vertical positions

  4. Increased drive plate quality to get perfect tracking without needing complex tracking features

  5. Easier upgrade path from ONE to PRO.

Our biggest accomplishment is providing all these improvements while lowering the cost by $200 and only charging a flat rate of $100 for shipping!

Visually the generation 4 grinder will look similar to the 3rd generation. Below is a side by side comparison. The photos below are 3D renders and are only a visual representation of the final product. The 4th generation design has the control panel label.

Pre-orders in February will be discounted 10% and 5% in March. First 20 orders will ship in April with the remaining orders shipping, as soon as, possible.


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Surface grinder product release

You asked and we listened! We are excited to announce the release of our new surface grinding attachment!

This idea has been in development for quite awhile. I wanted to bring something new and exciting to the market that didn’t necessarily follow what was already out there. We considered may different ideas from a stand-alone unit to an integrated stand with a surface grinder build in. We settled on developing an attachment. Once we decided on the attachment style unit we worked hard to develop a great unit that was innovative while keeping the cost manageable. What we developed is an amazing attachment with a bearing-less slide, magnets that can be switch on/off without power, 15” surface, tilting surface, and a easy to use digital counter.

We are happy to open up preordering at a great deal!

The image below is of our prototype unit. We will be starting our production parts soon and shipping the first units in late March.

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