Now THAT is cool. I'm building one. Thanks, Nick!
I like the idea of this gizmo. As I just though about making one I wonder why you couldn't just chuck a dremel cutoff wheel in a drill press and raise the table to the height you want?
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I like the idea of this gizmo. As I just though about making one I wonder why you couldn't just chuck a dremel cutoff wheel in a drill press and raise the table to the height you want?
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Nick is the only knifemaker I know that is man enough to make knives with a black bear in his shop.
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Thanks for the answers Nick. I always learnsomething from you. Great looking knife, by the way.
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OK Nick, I got to ask more about this part of your operation!
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Nick, explain exactly what I am looking at in this pic above. I understand what you are doing with it I think. This was used to put the smaller line on the guard and the spacer!
Is that correct?
But what am I looking at?
It looks like something like a dremel with a cut off wheel but yet I don't think it is. Also how are you managing this process to get the same depth on that cut line. I don't see anything to control the depth of that cut!
How did you do the black in that line?
Is it just painted in or is it done some other way?
Also how did you cut the center grove between the two black lines? I went back and looked for pic on that part of the operation but I don't see them!!
My wheels started turning as soon as I saw the router type table set up, yet I can't see how you controlled the depth of these cuts and that is bugging me. I have a router attachment that attaches to a dremel so I could duplicate the table set up but how to control the depth of those cuts is escaping me at the moment!
Sorry if I am asking too many questions here but I really like the work you have done on this piece!
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Nick, explain exactly what I am looking at in this pic above. I understand what you are doing with it I think. This was used to put the smaller line on the guard and the spacer!
Is that correct?
But what am I looking at?
It looks like something like a dremel with a cut off wheel but yet I don't think it is. Also how are you managing this process to get the same depth on that cut line. I don't see anything to control the depth of that cut!
How did you do the black in that line?
Is it just painted in or is it done some other way?
Also how did you cut the center grove between the two black lines? I went back and looked for pic on that part of the operation but I don't see them!!
My wheels started turning as soon as I saw the router type table set up, yet I can't see how you controlled the depth of these cuts and that is bugging me. I have a router attachment that attaches to a dremel so I could duplicate the table set up but how to control the depth of those cuts is escaping me at the moment!
Sorry if I am asking too many questions here but I really like the work you have done on this piece!
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Nick,
Just connected the dots that the guy who's YouTube videos on polishing, etching and file work gave me the confidence to try those techniques on my first knife is the SAME guy who gave such encouraging replies when I posted that knife here on blade forums. I discovered your videos before I fully discovered this forum and just realized that those videos were posted by you.
The "Bill's Integral" series is largely responsible for getting me hooked on this obsession. Don't worry, I won't mention your culpability to my wife. She get a little irritated with the time I spend.
Thanks for the tutorials/discussions. FYI - I think I have spent as much time building jigs and tools for knifemaking as I have actually making knives Many of them inspired by your posting/videos. I assume they will make things easier down the road... .??? anyway I enjoyed making them as much as the knives and the projects help to gain experience in working with steal.
That little "router table" just got added to the list. Gonna have to see if you posted more details on it earlier!?
Thanks for the postings, I can only hope to repay this community for your (and others) input at some point in the future.
Just connected the dots that the guy who's YouTube videos on polishing, etching and file work gave me the confidence to try those techniques on my first knife is the SAME guy who gave such encouraging replies when I posted that knife here on blade forums. I discovered your videos before I fully discovered this forum and just realized that those videos were posted by you.
The "Bill's Integral" series is largely responsible for getting me hooked on this obsession. Don't worry, I won't mention your culpability to my wife. She get a little irritated with the time I spend.
Thanks for the tutorials/discussions. FYI - I think I have spent as much time building jigs and tools for knifemaking as I have actually making knives Many of them inspired by your posting/videos. I assume they will make things easier down the road... .??? anyway I enjoyed making them as much as the knives and the projects help to gain experience in working with steal.
That little "router table" just got added to the list. Gonna have to see if you posted more details on it earlier!?
Thanks for the postings, I can only hope to repay this community for your (and others) input at some point in the future.
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Thanks guys.
Patrice- like you said, jigs and fixtures and doo-dads are cool.
To be brutally honest... a lot of the little gizmos that I make are a direct result of ADD. I will be in the middle of something, and my brain will drift away from THE task right in front of me, to ideas on how I could do the task a little easier/better... or often-times, more COMFORTABLY. That's why I have so many different sanding blocks/sticks. Sure, I could do everything with a couple different blocks... but having a stash of them makes thing easier, more comfortable, and most importantly for ME... easier to stay focused and on track. Sometimes a little diversion in my time helps keep me from TOTALLY derailing from what I'm doing.---- It's much akin to a person that's dieting allowing him/herself to have a candy bar once every two weeks and it being just enough to keep them from just going to Baskin Robbins and eating all 31 flavors and blowing their diet to hell... LMAO
As per my set-up for the line cuts. A drill press will work, that's how I originally started doing it. But this set-up, with the Foredom, V-block, and top-plate, is super easy to adjust to just the heights I want, has no run-out (which is extremely important when you're using a 0.009" thick separating disc!!!), and it is VERY easy to get close to it so that I can see what I'm doing. I also really like having the luxury of the foot pedal to start, stop, slow-down/speed-up the cutting disc.
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Wow!!! I think I'll have to have your paragraph on WHY you make the jigs printed and put on the wall of
my shop.
Just ask Greg. I think I make/buy/think up 14.7 jigs and tools per each knife I start. If I finish any of the thirty I have in progress I'll have to rent a storage shed for my extra tools.
Ultimately I need to be more productive BUT... building stuff for knife making is therapeutic when my minds racing too fast to do detail work.
For me it's enjoying the journey and not worrying about selling knives. ... I admit I would like to be more productive, though I'm happy with things as they are. I was at Chuck Richards' yesterday hanging out and being a nuisance while he heat treated 3 W2 blades yesterday. One of the things he and I talked about is his dremel/foredom jig. Almost identical to yours in principal. Too cool.
After seeing your pictures and spending the day at Chuck's I'm ready to make a new tools wanted list !
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Thanks guys
I haven't been online much at all lately... came back to answer the questions and this thread was already about 19 pages back, LOL.
The lines are made black when the damascus is etched. When I do stainless fittings, I heat blue the fittings which will make the lines look black. I just eyeball the depth. I had a "fence" I clamped on before, but it really isn't needed. You can cut them to a very uniform depth just by keeping a close eye on them.
The flute is cut with a file, then sanded smooth/clean. I have 1/8", 3/16", and 1/4" files I use, depending on the groove I want. I have posted photos of cutting that in on some other threads, sorry I don't have a link to them handy.
I have some ideas for making the little Foredom table better, but haven't bothered yet since it does what I want it to as-is.... for now anyway, LOL
Well, I think that covers everything for now.
Thanks guys
I haven't been online much at all lately... came back to answer the questions and this thread was already about 19 pages back, LOL.
The lines are made black when the damascus is etched. When I do stainless fittings, I heat blue the fittings which will make the lines look black. I just eyeball the depth. I had a "fence" I clamped on before, but it really isn't needed. You can cut them to a very uniform depth just by keeping a close eye on them.
The flute is cut with a file, then sanded smooth/clean. I have 1/8", 3/16", and 1/4" files I use, depending on the groove I want. I have posted photos of cutting that in on some other threads, sorry I don't have a link to them handy.
I have some ideas for making the little Foredom table better, but haven't bothered yet since it does what I want it to as-is.... for now anyway, LOL
Well, I think that covers everything for now.
Thanks guys
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Thanks Nick!:thumbup: