RC hardness of rodent Waki?

[BryFry]

Anyone know what the estimated RC hardness is at the edge and spine of the Waki?

I'm currious since I just finished convexing the edge on mine, and it was a pain in the butt!

I started with a 12" file to knock off the shoulder and get the basic angle I wanted down, but I quickly found out that my file had little effect on this blade. I clamped my waki down and worked that file for over an hour per side, and it hardly removed any stock steel!

So I switched to an XX course DMT stone for a while, then 120 grit sandpaper for maybe 5 hours or more... very slow going, but finally did get about what I was going for.

Anyway, just wondering what this is supossed to be rated at? I know its differentially heat treated form edge to spine, but I also noticed that my Waki's edge seemed to be harder along the last 5-6 inches towards the tip of the blade.

Awsome peice of steel in any case!

 

[Tripton]

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7368752&postcount=13

 

[resinguy]

You might consider investing $40 in the Harbor Freight 1x30 belt grinder, another $20 in belts from Lee Valley, and save yourself a lot of time and trouble.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=663363

Mine is kinda fugly but other folk here have done beautiful reprofiling jobs on their knives ans swords.

 

[BryFry]

True, I have been wanting a belt sander. I was thinking about getting serious and buy a nice $1000+ sander that I can use for knife making... but haven't gotten around to it yet. -Maybe I SHOULD just give in and get a cheap one..

...I know it would make my life easier since I have been slowly converting most of my knives to convex. The file and sandpaper methode works but damn if it isn't a pain in the booty!!!