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I have recently set-up a milling machine in my shop to be used in the knife making process.
This will make guard slotting much quicker.
My question is why not machine in the guard shoulder also. I found this fixture http://www.riversidemachine.net/item78682.ctlg so I guess there are some makes that use this method, but I never see it discussed here. Am I missing something and this does not work very well?
I used my filling jig as the fixture this weekend and milled the guard shoulders in on 4 knives in about 2 hours (taking my time and going really slow). I have not fit the guards yet, but as far as I can tell the shoulder are perfectly square and inline with each other.
I would like to hear what other makers think about this and/or why this method is not more common.
Thanks,
James

This will make guard slotting much quicker.
My question is why not machine in the guard shoulder also. I found this fixture http://www.riversidemachine.net/item78682.ctlg so I guess there are some makes that use this method, but I never see it discussed here. Am I missing something and this does not work very well?
I used my filling jig as the fixture this weekend and milled the guard shoulders in on 4 knives in about 2 hours (taking my time and going really slow). I have not fit the guards yet, but as far as I can tell the shoulder are perfectly square and inline with each other.
I would like to hear what other makers think about this and/or why this method is not more common.
Thanks,
James