Ken Cutt wrote:
Not exactly what you are asking and no where near as cool as CNC but ,
why not make up a reverse die and set that on the mag base , then just
use a regular surface grinder ? Luck

rashid111 wrote:
Ken -
do you mean use a pantograph style device to transfer dimension
of a die to the target ? Can you elaborate a bit here ?

I supposed he meant:
Cut out a cavity in a block, like a mold for the reed.
Put your stock in the cavity, hold both down via magnet,
and grind top surface flat (on ordinary surface grinder),
leaving proper cross-section.

With this approach, the hard parts are making the die
and getting the stock to hold down well enough. To see
if the process would work, I think you could make up a
quick-and-dirty die by a couple of cuts on a mill, with
a fairly arbitrary profile rather than an accurate one,
and take that die and some stock to a "shop or a friends'
grinder" (as Ken suggested in later post) to see if the
process would work, before going to the trouble of making
up an accurate die. If it worked ok, then you could make
an accurate die and a miniature SG with manual downfeed
and motorized X axis.
-jiw