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Will do, just finished up earlier and was too wiped out and ready for a beer to even clean the shop, but i'll snap one tomorrow after I square up the new spine area.
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Will do, just finished up earlier and was too wiped out and ready for a beer to even clean the shop, but i'll snap one tomorrow after I square up the new spine area.
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Oh it's made in china for sure, says so right on the box, pretty sure it said so on the blade too before I sanded it.
Any hoo, here's a pic post-cut, haven't started to sand the cut area yet, it's close enough I think to just use a piece of sandpaper flat on the bench rather than use the belt-sander and risk a sander-spasm, morning coffee gets me going but makes me a lil shaky-handed early in the day, lol.
Cut made with a Skil angle grinder and a cut wheel with a flat 1/8 wide edge. Multiple layers of blue tape for a guide and protection. Screwed and clamped piece to a 1x4 then clamped whole thing in a B&D benchtop workmate, eyepro and gloves mandatory of course. LOTS of water.
ETA: the 20 degree angle I had intended didn't happen, reason being when I taped the line, I left myself plenty of room to adjust post cut as I figured it would be extremely rough and I would sand down to that angle, so it's currently about 26 degrees, but since the cut turned out pretty well, I think i'll leave well enough alone, probably be about 25 when I finish and that's probably stabby enough.
Well, wasn't going to post again until I had scales done, but wife suggested I update on progress of this project, I noted that it's a forum full of people who know WAY more than I do about this stuff and are probably a bit aghast at my butchery, lol, but she said it still may be useful info to those lurking and interested in doing a project themselves and may be hampered as I am by a lack of knowledge and legitimate knife-modding tools. But I don't want to repeatedly post and bump, so am just adding to this post.
Day 2 : Worked on making the spine even all afternoon, was WAY harder than I thought it would be, there was really only a little bevel from side to side looking straight down the new spine area and that didn't even go all the way down as I got super straight on the cut towards the tip. And I figured that despite my precautions I probably had pulled at least a little hardness out of the back part as I allowed myself to linger a tad longer with the grinder there (towards the tip I was super hard-core, literally just kissing the steel for a split second before dousing with water). The cut BTW took me almost 6 hours with some breaks I took through the process to let steel cool completely to ambient temp of the shop (about 55 degrees).
Apparently though, I did a dang fine job on that cut, as the steel is insanely tough to grind, sandpaper did nothing. I do have some excellent quality files though I bought for other projects years ago. Pretty much trashed one trying to do this job and we're only talking maybe a 64th that needed to go down, file wouldn't get all of it , just started burnishing the steel finally and didn't do squat on the tip end.
I didn't want to take it to the bench grinder and I figured belt sander would heat it too much as well, luckily I remembered a diamond-infused field sharpener steel I bought a million years ago that I kept in my backpack. Pulled that out and with another 1.5 hours of working that steadily I got my result and bonus it made a nice clean edge that I don't have to sand or polish any further. Total time yesterday about 4 hours or a little better. Will post a pic of the edge here shortly, turned out nice and super-duper straight as I kept a straight-edge close and checked it constantly. Today I need to rip a 2x2 of some insanely hard wood to make scales. so that should be a hoot with no table saw, lol.
Any hoo, here's a pic post-cut, haven't started to sand the cut area yet, it's close enough I think to just use a piece of sandpaper flat on the bench rather than use the belt-sander and risk a sander-spasm, morning coffee gets me going but makes me a lil shaky-handed early in the day, lol.
Cut made with a Skil angle grinder and a cut wheel with a flat 1/8 wide edge. Multiple layers of blue tape for a guide and protection. Screwed and clamped piece to a 1x4 then clamped whole thing in a B&D benchtop workmate, eyepro and gloves mandatory of course. LOTS of water.
ETA: the 20 degree angle I had intended didn't happen, reason being when I taped the line, I left myself plenty of room to adjust post cut as I figured it would be extremely rough and I would sand down to that angle, so it's currently about 26 degrees, but since the cut turned out pretty well, I think i'll leave well enough alone, probably be about 25 when I finish and that's probably stabby enough.
Well, wasn't going to post again until I had scales done, but wife suggested I update on progress of this project, I noted that it's a forum full of people who know WAY more than I do about this stuff and are probably a bit aghast at my butchery, lol, but she said it still may be useful info to those lurking and interested in doing a project themselves and may be hampered as I am by a lack of knowledge and legitimate knife-modding tools. But I don't want to repeatedly post and bump, so am just adding to this post.
Day 2 : Worked on making the spine even all afternoon, was WAY harder than I thought it would be, there was really only a little bevel from side to side looking straight down the new spine area and that didn't even go all the way down as I got super straight on the cut towards the tip. And I figured that despite my precautions I probably had pulled at least a little hardness out of the back part as I allowed myself to linger a tad longer with the grinder there (towards the tip I was super hard-core, literally just kissing the steel for a split second before dousing with water). The cut BTW took me almost 6 hours with some breaks I took through the process to let steel cool completely to ambient temp of the shop (about 55 degrees).
Apparently though, I did a dang fine job on that cut, as the steel is insanely tough to grind, sandpaper did nothing. I do have some excellent quality files though I bought for other projects years ago. Pretty much trashed one trying to do this job and we're only talking maybe a 64th that needed to go down, file wouldn't get all of it , just started burnishing the steel finally and didn't do squat on the tip end.
I didn't want to take it to the bench grinder and I figured belt sander would heat it too much as well, luckily I remembered a diamond-infused field sharpener steel I bought a million years ago that I kept in my backpack. Pulled that out and with another 1.5 hours of working that steadily I got my result and bonus it made a nice clean edge that I don't have to sand or polish any further. Total time yesterday about 4 hours or a little better. Will post a pic of the edge here shortly, turned out nice and super-duper straight as I kept a straight-edge close and checked it constantly. Today I need to rip a 2x2 of some insanely hard wood to make scales. so that should be a hoot with no table saw, lol.
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Got some wood cut to start work on new scales, possibly the first of several until I get it right, lol. Snapped a pic of the cut area now that it's cleaned up, still could use work but it will do, also put the factory scales back on for the heck of it to see how it feels now, and I gotta say it's great, so much lighter and better balanced in the hand.
