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B . Buxton

B . Buxton

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OK guys educate me, I know there's got to be a better way then how I do these things.

How do you guys evenly square up and make perpendictular the ends of your stock, like stag and ivory cut offs that are round and odd shapped.

Second question, How do you find, hold and drill a perfectly centered hole perpendicular with the sides and end your drilling from with odd shaped metal stock for things like guards and pommels, especially pommels.

Thanks,

Bill
 
Bill, I use the flat platen and my eyeball for squaring up the ends of stag. Once I get it as close as I can with the grinder I'll put sand paper on a flat surface. Hold the stag in one had and pull across the paper. With all the iron I use for fittings none of it comes perfectly flat or square. Drill press and eyeball again are used. I always start with a slightly over sized piece of material so being dead center isn't an issue. You need to have caveman qualities to build knives like I do.
 
I hear what your saying Ray, but time to time you need a piece of stag or ivory thats exactly square with each end, like on a dagger. Any tips on making both ends perfectly square with one another.

I've got 4 knives that need sheaths, when do you want me to send them? :D:D

Bill
 
Though I normally just eyeball it here is what I would do if I had to. This is assuming you have a milling machine with a dialed in vise. I would make a fixture that would hold the piece horizontal above the vise. The fixture would be held in the vise. Each end of the material would extend beyond the fixture. I would then set the material in the fixture, line it up as to were the centerline should fall. Clamp it in the fixture then skim each end without removing it from the fixture. Hope it came through in the description. Good luck
 
B . Buxton said:
I hear what your saying Ray, but time to time you need a piece of stag or ivory thats exactly square with each end, like on a dagger. Any tips on making both ends perfectly square with one another.

I've got 4 knives that need sheaths, when do you want me to send them? :D:D

Bill
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Bill, I could use the extra cash. Did I tell you a charge $75.00 per inch for the sheath work?
 
Nope, NO mill, just a grinder and a drill press.

Geez, Thanks Nick your a big help, dickhead :D, if I could afford to come to Washington I could buy a mill that would solve this problem with the gas money alone. :D

Bill
 
If you have no mill then how about a shoulder jig. If you can find one with a v groove you could hold odd shape material and also use it for integrals. Then it is just a matter if cutting to a scribe line. Not as easy as a mill but it can be done.
 
i have a rectangular piece of plastic 2" square 3" long that is super tough and slides across 60 grit easily without getting cut hardly and its square. i use it to square up one end by lining up the edges then clamping it to the block leaving enough excess hanging over to square it up when i sand it. i repeat this to do the other side. you need one straight edge to start with though.
 
richardj, yep thats the problem when dealing with ivory,stag and other round somewhat banana shaped materials. Geting a good starting point that you can keep lined up with while you try to square up the ends.
A.C has given me the idea I needed and the next time I get to grizzly I'm going to look for a small wide jawed pipe vise, if its mounted on a 2 sided square piece of wood or steel then materials placed in it can have both ends cut exactly square with one another and evenly by using my miter saw and just sliding the vise along the fence, that will keep the piece in perfect alinement.

Thanks guys,

Bill
 
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