I finally got time to finish the beef splitter i was working on for a customer/friend. The previous owner must have used it for a wall hanging since it was painted black and silver. i stripped all of the paint off with paint stripper and a wire brush on an angle grinder, then re-profiled the blade edge to straight; it had been sharpened so much that there was about 1/4" of recurve to the blade. I fitted handle slabs of Peruvian Walnut and brass mosaic pins, and also made a scabbar for the edge out of the same walnut. on to the picks:
You can see the temper line in the photos. Joe asked earlier about my thoughts on the temper. This thing is HARD. I almost wrecked a new Norton Blaze 60 grit belt getting the blade edge straight and extending the grinds to the new profile. The original grind was a flat grind to zero about 1 1/2 inches up from the edge and i just held the same grind angle after straightening the edge. Blade is now ground to about 0.010" with a secondary bevel.
thanks for looking
randy
You can see the temper line in the photos. Joe asked earlier about my thoughts on the temper. This thing is HARD. I almost wrecked a new Norton Blaze 60 grit belt getting the blade edge straight and extending the grinds to the new profile. The original grind was a flat grind to zero about 1 1/2 inches up from the edge and i just held the same grind angle after straightening the edge. Blade is now ground to about 0.010" with a secondary bevel.
thanks for looking
randy
