Help for a Newbie

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Haplo

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I am new to the Knife making business. I have asked a couple frends who make knives and they said I sould have no problem mking knives on just my 6" bench Grinder. Which for the most part has been easy except on my hollow grinds. Is there an attachment for a bench grinder to help with this or do I just need more practice I might just be doing it wrong. Maybe I should look into getting some sort of Belt Grinder? Any advice would be great.

Thanks
Haplo
 
If you can aford it, go with a good belt grinder, the more expensive the better. :D

I am still useing a Craftsman 2x42" but would realy not recomend it. I keep saying I'm going to get a Coote grinder, but have not yet. For not much more than the Craftsman cost me I could have, But I didn't know anybetter at the time.

If all you want to do is try knifemakeing, or have a very limited buget, you can start out with very few tools, I would recomend Wayne Goddards book, the 50$ knife shop.

As for ease of grinding, A belt is realy the easyist way I have found, but I'm by no means any thing but anouther newbee.

As for grinding bevels, hollow or flat, just destroy a bunch of steel and your body will eventualy train itself to grind good bevels.

Good luck,

William
 
If you just want to see if you like it, try no grinder. It's not that hard. I just posted a picture of a dirk I am working on. No grinder on this one, just a freon can forge and files. It's not beautiful but it is fun to make them that way.
 
All you have to have is the heart and time to try making one,I don't think anybody has made a perfect knife ever and I really don't think anybody was really happy with there first attempts.Just do the best you can with what you have and then try another and another and you will get the hang of it..
Bruce
 
Workin with a 6in bench grinder
ain`t easy but it can be done.
I made this many moons ago on a 6in.
hard wheel. I don`t even want
to think about the hours I have
in it. Oh! I made it from a file.
benchgrinder.jpg
 
Wow, Sylvester, that's great. I made my first knives out of files on a hard grider too, but they were nothing like that...whoo-ee!

Haplo, what Bruce said is right, it's very hard to be totally satisfied with your work regardless how good it is. That being said, go for it. I'm assuming since you've made some on a hard wheel and are still thinking about making more you've been biten. :D

There's a belt grinder attachment you can hook up to your grinder, and I seem to recall a couple of posts about it. Otherwise, if you buy a belt grinder be sure to get 2X72 as an absolute minimum. Search the archive and current posts to learn more than you can imagine about grinders.

Good luck, best wishes, happy grinding!
Dave
 
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