Automatic blade holder

A method for profiling blades with a belt grinding profiling machine, comprising:

• providing a belt grinding profiling machine having an electric for driving a grinding wheel with a grinding belt in operative engagement with the motor and grinding wheel, a guide wheel and the grinding wheel mounted on a common axle, the machine having a tiltable vise, that is shiftable in a horizontal direction along a rail attached to the machine, and a rotatable knob in operative engagement with a template having an underside profile, the blade having an underside;
• mounting the blades into the vise;
• adjusting a vertical position of the template by rotating the rotatable knob;
• turning on the motor to rotate the grinding belt over the grinding wheel;
• the guide wheel engaging the underside profile of the template,
• the guide wheel of the template guiding movement of the grinding wheel mounted on the common axle by moving the guide wheel along the underside profile of the template;
• and
• the grinding belt grinding material off the underside of the blade until a portion of the underside profile of the template is copied to the underside of the blade.