My first attempt at making a knife

If you are talking about my instruction, I mean the edge straight into the platen, so you hold it with your hands. Shouldn't take much since you are only evening up the edge. If you are talking about grinding the flats, No, a magnet shouldn't make it stay magnetic to any degree. If it does, lay the blade flat on an anvil or other block of steel and strike it with a hammer. this will demagnetize it. And yes, do this to take the scale off the tang. lowest grit you got.
 
Lots of hand sanding to do. Has been a lot of fun learning on it though. I had been ready to throw it away.

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Hell Yeah....There ya go now put an edge on that bad boy and go cut something. That is how you learn and the next one will be better and you move forward. :thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
Geoff Flato said:
Softer than a file still doesn't mean you can file it. You can scrape up something at rc60 with a file, but you'll ruin the file before being able to remove a noticable amount of metal
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My Pferd Corinox file can all day grind 60Hrc steel ;) I use them to put initial edge on finished knife . . .
 
Natlek said:
My Pferd Corinox file can all day grind 60Hrc steel ;) I use them to put initial edge on finished knife . . .
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As with all rules there are exceptions.
But that's still not a good reason to do all the filework after hardening, and most people asking about this probably wouldn't have those or other specialty files.
 
Feezle said:
Lots of hand sanding to do. Has been a lot of fun learning on it though. I had been ready to throw it away.

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Judging by the picture , you have big scratches on blade .You can save lot of work if you start sanding with stone . One like for scythe sharpenenig . . .
 
Natlek said:
Judging by the picture , you have big scratches on blade .You can save lot of work if you start sanding with stone . One like for scythe sharpenenig . . .
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Yeah, lots of scratches. The warp in the blade has played hell with my sanding attempts. I know I'm not going to get them all out. Ill look into those sanding stones. Thanks!
 
A product of too mich messing with it I burned the edge this morning when I nicked it on a belt. I ended up having to grind the edge down. I'm done with it. I did hand sand the handle and love how it feels. Put an edge on it with diamond stone (which I'm not good at but I'm working on it).

Decided to test the edge on a 2x4 and I really thought it was going to trash it but it didn't and it still cuts paper after. It may be ugly but I'm damn proud of it. On to the next one.

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On to the next one . . . . . . :D I can bet that next one will be worse then this one :) Why do not you finish this one as it should ? How you think that you will learn all that different skill and make progress if you don t go till the end on any knife you make ?
 
Natlek said:
On to the next one . . . . . . :D I can bet that next one will be worse then this one :) Why do not you finish this one as it should ? How you think that you will learn all that different skill and make progress if you don t go till the end on any knife you make ?
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He understands what he did wrong and what he could improve in the next one. Try not being so negative.
 
keep it. you will cherish it years from now. i still have my first knife from 2004, and your is nicer :) i use it for things i would not use my nice knives on almost everyday. opening boxes, scraping etc.
 
Natlek said:
On to the next one . . . . . . :D I can bet that next one will be worse then this one :) Why do not you finish this one as it should ? How you think that you will learn all that different skill and make progress if you don t go till the end on any knife you make ?
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Were it not for the warp in the blade I would. I would rather have something to keep as my first knife than grind it down to nothing trying to make this one something it is not.
 
Kevin McGovern said:
He understands what he did wrong and what he could improve in the next one. Try not being so negative.
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I'm sorry if it sounds negative , most likely because English is not my first language . I'm kidding, I know she's young :) But to understands what you did wrong and to fix that ......there is a one big difference . How he will know how dificult is to remove last scratches to do say 800 grit finish ? Point is if he try that on this one , he will be more careful on next one . .. . .. :thumbsup:
 
Alright, trying one from the start with my grinder (last one was beveled with a file and touched up after I got the grinder). It isn't perfect but I think I'm figuring out bevel grinding. I'm attempting to learn freehand instead of using a jig. I do end up with multiple bevels that I have to correct but I'm getting the hang of it. This one is going to be a chopper.

I do find that the area right next to my ricasso gets too thin and I end up having to take down the edge and even it up. I'm sure it is from finding the bevel at the beginning of each grind stroke.

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looking better. You may try filing in your plunge lines first then grinding the bevels. It not only can help keep the plunges in line from one side to the other, but it may help you to not concentrate on that area and thinning the edge there too much. I have to consciously avoid overgrinding there as well.
 
That has to be one of the biggest mistakes that a new maker will encounter because of focusing on getting the plunges lined up.You have a tendency to try and even those plunges up and with the most amount of leverage right in the area where you hold the tang you are applying additional pressure and time at that particular area. You just need to barely KISS the blade to the belt back it away so you know where you are then approach again with less pressure/leverage.
 
Do you guys do your bevel with low grit belts? I'm shaping with 36 grit and then I did most of the bevel work thus far with the same. I guess I'm just confused at what point you would change grits in the beveling process.
 
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