Fellhoelter / Willumsen Collaboration

Brian Fellhoelter Knives said:
Yes, a mill.
And no, I have them mounted on a tilting table...
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Yikes man ! Brian, you made this post at 2:30 AM :eek:
You guys are given'er :thumbup: ;)

Hey Mikkel :thumbup: I'm still limping from the a** whipping you gave me over at CK&G ;) :D

Great looking WIP guys !! Lookin real good !!


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Brian Fellhoelter Knives said:
My Bridgeport.
We decided it was a quick, effective method to rough in the bevels...
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Lucky Bob said:
I wanted to ask this, but didn't want to seem like a know-it-all: wouldn't that give you perfectly planar bevels, even on the belly/tip? Isn't the goal to have the bevel follow the curve of the edge?
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Don't mean to be redundant with your "I don't want to seem like a know-it-all" statement and I certainly don't speak for Brian & Mikkel but....... I think your answer is in Brians statement that I quoted above. Key words : roughed in the bevels ;)

Your thinking is right on Lucky Bob, in regards to bevel's being on a single plane when milled like that :thumbup: I would guess that Brian & Mikkel moved to a flat platen grinder to blend in the forward area bevels on the knives they're making .............. Good eye ;)


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Cool to see production in a small shop. You have your operation together, that's for sure!
 
David is spot on.

Knives go from the mill to the platen I made on my KMG.
There's a short spot in clip showing me do just that, it's the part Andy was asking about earlier.

In an Ideal World, the bevel angle would be the same angle, perpendicular to the edge from plunge to tip.
I don't think many people do this though, as it would require lowering the hilt end of the knife as you get to the belly and through to the tip to keep the abrasives running perpendicular to the edge.
I think most of us pull the handle towards us when we get there, making the angle no longer perpendicular to the edge...
Now we are only talking minutes of a degree different if we were to measure the angle perpendicular to the edge, but different.
In my case, using the horizontal platen, I lift the hilt.
 
Great video and hope you much success at blade, thanks for wearing proper safety equipment, its great to show how professionals work.
 
Thanks for the responses, Messrs Wesner and Fellhoeter. I had figured that was just polishing, not a forming operation. Thanks for the clarification!

(I really want to build a knife using CNC, even if it might not have the same flow as one with hand-built eccentricities, just for the awesomeness factor.)

As for the difference between dropping the butt of the knife and pulling it towards you, I'm fairly sure that, as long as we're talking about flat grinding, there's no reason they can't be the same. If we're talking about hollow grinding, it changes the effective radius of the hollow, but that's an entirely separate discussion.
 
Its not really an entirely seperate discussion, though it is a topic for a different thread.
It's the same principle.
 
Killer video and knives !


Everyone should spend at least 1 day with Mr. LeBlanc, (maker of the horizontal grinder) that guy makes most look like amateurs, he is something else.
 
Cool video! It was interesting to see your shop and all the stuff you guys got finished.
 
And this was just the fixed blade WIP.

We have 3 folder models too....

This project is hammering me.
 
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