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- Thread starter jdm61
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grinders, scrapers, and dremel/die grinders and flex shafts.
Careful with the flex shafts, they can't take too much torque.
The viking sword I posted earlier was ground with an 8" contact wheel.
The kindjal I did was ground with the side of a grinding wheel on a 4.5" angle grinder and then enlarged with stone points on a die grinder and then files, stones, and paper wrapped around wood shaped to fit the fuller.
For those straight and relatively small type with straight or mostly straight sides (not too rounded), clamp a guid piece of stock to what you are fullering, and then put the groove in with whatever grinder is appropriate for the size of stock and groove (angle or die/dremel or flex shaft).
You can use a scraper instead of the grinder, and if you make your scraper with a guide finger, you don't have to clamp stock to your piece as a guid. Look at video # 1 or 2 of Alan Longmire forging a Bell Dirk on youtube, and he shows the scraper he used for fullering the dirk. Those little ones work well for small fullers near the spine.
For big stuff, use a contact wheel or roller, or start the groove as above and then get round points and put them in an angle drill or die grinder and enlarge and shape the groove.
those are the ways I do it, there are others. These are the tools I know how to use...
Kevin
Careful with the flex shafts, they can't take too much torque.
The viking sword I posted earlier was ground with an 8" contact wheel.
The kindjal I did was ground with the side of a grinding wheel on a 4.5" angle grinder and then enlarged with stone points on a die grinder and then files, stones, and paper wrapped around wood shaped to fit the fuller.
For those straight and relatively small type with straight or mostly straight sides (not too rounded), clamp a guid piece of stock to what you are fullering, and then put the groove in with whatever grinder is appropriate for the size of stock and groove (angle or die/dremel or flex shaft).
You can use a scraper instead of the grinder, and if you make your scraper with a guide finger, you don't have to clamp stock to your piece as a guid. Look at video # 1 or 2 of Alan Longmire forging a Bell Dirk on youtube, and he shows the scraper he used for fullering the dirk. Those little ones work well for small fullers near the spine.
For big stuff, use a contact wheel or roller, or start the groove as above and then get round points and put them in an angle drill or die grinder and enlarge and shape the groove.
those are the ways I do it, there are others. These are the tools I know how to use...
Kevin