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Steve,
I checked and my sharpeners vise will grab onto a .032 thick blade, but not the .025 ones. Another problem is that the indexing stop is on the wrong side for BS blades. I bought my grinder from Baileys and it's a Speed Sharp Automatic, which sells for $349.95 right now, but I would buy either the Speed Sharp with the manual vise @ $319.95 or the Speed Master @ 169.95 and go from there. It looks as though the indexing part on the Speed Master might be bolted on, where mine is part of a casting plus the Hyd. cyl. is in the way of a full depth cut. A way around this would be to modify the thickness spacers on the vise, or make a new guide system from 3 pieces of sheetmetal that would clamp in the original vise. If you use only 1 thickness blade, I dont think a clamp would be needed if everything was snug. Copy, or mount the indexing lever on the other side and you are ready. BTW, my 3/16" thick grinding wheel fits into the gullet of my 1/2"-4 tpi blade just fine and IMO, would work. I would pursue this, but my blades are 118"-3 tpi which means about 354 teeth, and my time is worth more than that. Besides, I sell bandsaw blades.
Aloha, Doug