More nail nick issues

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SlyOne

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I made a little jig and cut a nail nick- it's okay but I'm not happy. I want to build reproductions of historical pocket knives and the nicks are different. Today a lot of folks use thumb bobs or grind a straight slot. If a fly cutter is used the nick is straight across the top and curved on the bottom and slanted. I believe the traditional way was to forge the blade and during the forging use a stamp to impress the nail nick into the blade. This nick was not straight across the top but curved on both top and bottom. So....I think I'll need some sort of a stamp and maybe a large or small stamp.
Does anyone know anything on this one???:eek:
 
I have a chain saw sharpening device that has a fibrous cut off type wheel that would make a good angled nail nick.

P.M. if you are interested? Its new in box. Or you could built a jig to hold an angle grinder with a fibrous cut off disc on it?
 
The old one were hot stamped and I did it this way years ago. Kind of difficult to get it just right, but doable. Some did have a very slight curve to the top line, but have seen some straight. A nice clean nick is what we look for in custom repros of the old knives.

I use a fly cutter now. This is much more precise and easier to get it right where ya want it. I just recently made a tool that holds the cutter at a right angle to the blade, as the angled fly cutter is a pain to use.

 
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