Wanna know why I continue to do chisel grind?

I really hate using the terms "right-handed" and "left-handed" for chisel grinds because both styles have some cuts that they do better with one hand vs. the other. For instance, you want to use a "right-handed" chisel grind with your right hand for carving a hollow where you have to break from the cut? Good luck. Cut a strip from the left side of a piece of cardboard or whatever? Also not gonna' be fun without re-orienting the workpiece. Making a pulling cut with the edge towards yourself? Cut the underside of something held in the left hand? All of those would be easier to do with a "left-handed" chisel grind in the right hand. :)
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
I really hate using the terms "right-handed" and "left-handed" for chisel grinds because both styles have some cuts that they do better with one hand vs. the other. For instance, you want to use a "right-handed" chisel grind with your right hand for carving a hollow where you have to break from the cut? Good luck. Cut a strip from the left side of a piece of cardboard or whatever? Also not gonna' be fun without re-orienting the workpiece. Making a pulling cut with the edge towards yourself? Cut the underside of something held in the left hand? All of those would be easier to do with a "left-handed" chisel grind in the right hand. :)
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Absolutely, but you need some terminology to describe them. :) Left flat? Right flat? At the end of the day I think most righties like me prefer "left flat" chisel grinds. :P
 
Chisel grind cuts great and is no problem for resharpening.Jackknife,those serrated victorinox paring knives are excellent ,I have few of them,plain and serrated and serrated ones cut meat and soft materials like butter.
 
That looks like a cool little CNC there CM! You'll have lots of fun with that!
Just don't crash it on your first program!:eek:
 
danbot said:
That looks like a cool little CNC there CM! You'll have lots of fun with that!
Just don't crash it on your first program!:eek:
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I still need to figure out what classes I need to take ... YouTube University ;)
 
Cool! It looks like Tormach has good customer support anyway, so they will help you set all that stuff up to work properly with the machine.
 
Charlie Mike said:
If you ever owned a production Emerson that isn't a tanto... That's what you described.
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You're talking to a noob. I've only ever owned one knife, and it wasn't a non - tanto Emerson.

But I'm guessing from context, people don't like Emerson... so v-grinds with chisel bevels suck?

Good to know. I'm in experiment with everything mode. Guess I'll skip trying that out when my V blade edge needs a rework.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
I really hate using the terms "right-handed" and "left-handed" for chisel grinds because both styles have some cuts that they do better with one hand vs. the other. For instance, you want to use a "right-handed" chisel grind with your right hand for carving a hollow where you have to break from the cut? Good luck. Cut a strip from the left side of a piece of cardboard or whatever? Also not gonna' be fun without re-orienting the workpiece. Making a pulling cut with the edge towards yourself? Cut the underside of something held in the left hand? All of those would be easier to do with a "left-handed" chisel grind in the right hand. :)
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I've been telling these people for years that Emersons were built to only do pull cuts.
 
Lapedog said:
You are aware that F the Reality is bad grammar right? If you did know and decided F the grammar that's badass though too.
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F the reality is proper, think 'Reality of the situation,' not reality as in 'this reality'

'Disregard the impossible odds' or something to that efffect

Though F the odds sounds better.
 
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