How do you grind nail dents?

[cotdt]

I want to make a lockback folder. How do you make nail dents?

For those who don't know, this is a nail dent:

 

[Brad Richardson]

chainsaw file works for me.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I think he means a "nail-nick".
They are usually cut on a mill with a end mill ( at an angle) or a 45 degree cutter. They can be cut by hand with a flex shaft or a Dremel tool, but it takes a steady hand.
Stacy

 

[David Wesner]

A large Dovetail cutter or a fly cutter with the correct geometry ground on the tool blank is how many makers do it.


:thumbup:

 

[John L]

Called a nail nick. I cut them with a fly cutter. Others cut them with an abrasive disc on a Dremel tool, or abrasive disc on a shaft in a drill press, or with a cup grinding wheel on a surface grinder, or a dovetail cutter in a mill, or a milling cutter with either head or table set on angle, or.....many ways to skin this cat....just depencds upon machinery you have or lack thereof.

 

[the possum]

Low tech way is to just stamp them in with an appropriately shaped chisel/punch. This is how many factories do it.

 

[Sam Salvati]

Cut it in with a hot chisel

 

[Bruce Bump]

I use my surface grinder with a 5" stone cut at about 35 deg angle. You can do the same thing on a milling machine or even a drill press.

 

[jim moyer]

Called a nail nick. I cut them with a fly cutter. Others cut them with an abrasive disc on a Dremel tool, or abrasive disc on a shaft in a drill press, or with a cup grinding wheel on a surface grinder, or a dovetail cutter in a mill, or a milling cutter with either head or table set on angle, or.....many ways to skin this cat....just depencds upon machinery you have or lack thereof.

Don't forget the chainsaw????

 

[Don Hanson III]

I gots to know how the chain file work

 

[cotdt]

Thanks for all the responses guys. I think I can do it now.