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Scott the knife

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Found this while looking for plans on Google. Looks pretty interesting. Here is the adress. members.aol.com/pavl5/myhomepage/buisness.html. I copied that off of the google page. hope it works. If not sorry. I am a trucker not a computer geek:D
 
I don't know if it would work or not, but i would not want to grind with a hollow with a 6 inch wheel. I use an 8 inch contact wheel right now, and I am thinking of getting a bigger one. I guess on smaller knives a 6 inch wheel would be ok.

What I would suggest is this. If you are learning how to hollow grind, then just goto your local scrap yard and pick up some junk steel to practice on. The yard in my area only charges $0.20 per pound, so I picked up 100 pounds to practice with. Others here have recommended using strips of wood to practice on (saves on belts).

Anyway, I think you will be happier with your knives if you don't use a jig or "machine" to do you hollows. Just learn (practice, practice, practice) how to do it free hand. Plus when people ask you how you ground that, and whether you used a jig or not, they are really impressed when you tell them that you do it free hand...:)
 
It looks like it would have a lot of play using drawer slides. doesn't make much sense to me you can get a decent x-y table for about $100 from grizzly or even the cheap $30 ones would prolly be better than that setup.

I always figured it was better to practice with a good steel just in case one comes out good at least then you can try to heat treat it. or heat treat all of em then when you start to get good at grinding you have the heat treat down good too.
1084 is really cheap from www.admiralsteel.com and shipping is pretty good too

If you don't plan on doing your own heat treat then wood or scrap steel is the way to go.
 
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