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can table top milling machines do the job well or should i look at finding a good old knee mill basicaly i need it for slotting gaurds tapering full tang handles 440 c is the steel i will use most
bench top will do just fine for that.....
Metalmole, how would you (personally) use a benchtop mill for tapering full tang knives? I've never figured out how to do it better than on my grinder...
Thanks David,
Was that with a face mill?
I have a setup for face milling stock (with a magnetic chuck), but found it caused stress bending in the thin stuff I was hoping to do it on.
Metalmole, how would you (personally) use a benchtop mill for tapering full tang knives? I've never figured out how to do it better than on my grinder...
sherline mini mills pop up on ebay frequently.
It's just double... If it's 2 degrees on one side, then you fixture off of that newly cut surface it would be 4 degrees.If you have a big enough mill its not hard....ive tapered tangs on my bridgeport. I did the math and just figured out how much i needed to raise the tang to get the right angle then used a tilting table attachment to hold the blade. The harder part was doing the math over so that when i flipped it over the angle got re-adjusted correctly.
Probably not worth the effort but its certainly do-able with a fullsize mill. I hogged 1/8" of steel at a time.