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New shop is done so it is time to really become a knife maker.
A while back I picked up 11 12"x 39" of 3/16" D2 from a Canadian who's venture into production knife making didn't pan out. I send one off to GLWJ and had him cut it into blanks of a design I had drawn up and made a couple of prototypes of. I got back 36 blanks and had finished 10 before my wife got sick and then I had the fire. Time to make them into knives and get my grinding polished up. I have 25 blanks left and by the time I am done I should be getting it down
First I scribe a center line, then grind the edges at hard angle, then grind the flats using the gap between the edge and the belt created by the hard angle. Then over to the mill to drill some 1/2" holes in the handle area for weight reduction. Then, grind the flats to get rid of the scale and true everything up. This part I am doing with 60 grit belts. Next I will go up in grit and clamp on a guide to true up the plunges and smooth things out.
A while back I picked up 11 12"x 39" of 3/16" D2 from a Canadian who's venture into production knife making didn't pan out. I send one off to GLWJ and had him cut it into blanks of a design I had drawn up and made a couple of prototypes of. I got back 36 blanks and had finished 10 before my wife got sick and then I had the fire. Time to make them into knives and get my grinding polished up. I have 25 blanks left and by the time I am done I should be getting it down
First I scribe a center line, then grind the edges at hard angle, then grind the flats using the gap between the edge and the belt created by the hard angle. Then over to the mill to drill some 1/2" holes in the handle area for weight reduction. Then, grind the flats to get rid of the scale and true everything up. This part I am doing with 60 grit belts. Next I will go up in grit and clamp on a guide to true up the plunges and smooth things out.