Sharpening recurve on KMG???

[Erin Burke]

Hi all...

I typically sharpen my knives on the flat platen of my grinder. This has worked great for me. My current project is a small recurve, however, and I have to come up with another method for grinding the final edge. In the past, I have removed the platen from my KMG and slack-ground a convex edge. This does work, but I have had issues messing up the grind on the blade-tip as it comes off the slack belt. If all else fails though, I will likely try splitting a belt and slack-grinding the edge... but I was hoping somebody out there had a trick for grinding the final edge on a recurve.

Thanks in advance.

Erin

 

[Edro20]

Phillip Patton posted a convex platen attachment that looked pretty slick. You might try searching for that post. I'm lazy, I know.

 

[Ryan Minchew]

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=641965

 

[jsmithknives]

I like to take the platton off of my flat platton attachment, so it is a slack belt attachment, then I sharpen my recurves on a J-flex belts to get in the curves!!!
Just how I do it!!!