Hip to be "Square"

Hankins

Hankins

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Dun Dun Dadunna Hummed to Hewie Lewis and The News song
"Hip to be Square"
Transformation has come over my approach to knife making since getting my surface grinder dialed in. More and more I am thinking in thoughts of square and parallel for everything in the shop.

Suddenly the File guide I've used for the past ten years will no longer do.
Going to change out my bench vise and true up the platen and on and on and on...
PG ground steel now looks cheaper (Never used it before) after spending the time to surface grind my blades. My guards now sit perfectly flat against a flat 90deg shoulder and flat against the flat side of the blade and flat against the handle as well. :D
Life is good in squaresville :thumbup:
 
Wow, my thoughts exactly.
I'm just starting and have done my guards without a file guide.( optivisor was a big leap)
Hair line fit on one side, gap on the other, oops out of square! Etc. Etc.

So, I just got a file guide, but I have been looking at PG steel more and more. A surface grinder and a mill:eek:

Big learning curve, but eight hours filing a guide that doesn't fit.

Plumb, square and level as they say in the building trades.

There is a Bridgeport model 815 surface grinder coming up at auction in a couple of weeks but don't know anything about them.
 
Had never used a Surface grinder before getting mine...
Go slow... Ask many questions from the experts here...
Practice Practice Practice :D
Still finding new little quirks on mine, but stuff is flat and parrallel
 
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