Tip "Sanding Flats"

Rene E. Roy

Rene E. Roy

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Some of you might already know this but I discovered it all by myself tonight. When I sand the flats of a knife, I use a Metal Surface plate. Every once in a while I will slip and my fingers hit the sandpaper and eventually the tips of my fingers bleed.. By accident tonight, while sanding some blades I happened to put a magnetic strip, from Sheffields Knife Supply...on my work bench next to the surface plate, and it hit me..If I put the blade on the magnetic strip and lay the blade on the sandpaper, it act like a suction, keeping the blade flat to the table and I have a nice big handle to push down on. No Bloody finger tips.. As James Brown said "I FEEL GOOD":!:D :D :D
 
Good one Rene. I use a piece of masking tape rolled backwards sticky side out and a wooden block which you'll see in the video. There's always more tricks! :)
 
Rene after doing it this way
when your blade gets magnetized you can make a
_demagnetizer with and old electric motor.
_ it's a real pain if the metal grit sticks to the blade.:(
 
Dan, how are you making the demagnetizer out of an old motor? I think most of the hand tools in my shop need to be demagnetized.
 
Dan,
My brother made me a demagnetizer, it's a low voltage one, the cool thing about it is that I can leave it on and it doesn't overheat, like a regular demagnetizer. I hate my brother because he thinks like Indian George,they take sh*t and make something out of it. I hate people like that...they make me feel stupid.:confused:
 
Yes take the amature out of a AC brushless motor
with out the compasitor..aaahh :confused: I can't spell it.
build a wooden frame in side to keep your blade or tool
from being drawn to the windings, plug her in and run the part though. :cool:
 
Bob warner used the magnetic clutches from old car air conditioner compressers for a mag chuck, he said they have something like 400 lbs. of hold down power. Wach your fingers:eek:
 
Dan,
I am not good with this stuff, but I believe it is a 110v to 12volt transformer. He then built a coil of wires wraped in a circle and we used that plastic dip stuff (like on a pair of pliers) to conceal the circle of wires...if this makes any sense to you. When I see him I'll find out what he did. It works really sweet, thats all I know.:D
 
I just CS'd out, and got one from MSC. Been using it for 20 years. It's the type that you can just pull the stuff across the top and thats is.
I thought all knifemakers had demagnatizers?;)
 
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