What's going on in your shop? Show us whats going on, and talk a bit about your work!

FredyCro said:
I will make sure to try out the wheel first on the next one. Its my first two blades on the new grinder so I started with a 60 instead with a 40 and was also conservative on my rpms. I am interested how the used 60g belt will do for hogging off material on the wheel. Thanks for the tips!
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I grind basically everything on the platen but take of the last 0.05 mm on a 250 mm wheel longitudinally, and also hide the plunge with the wheel.
 
Natlek said:
That s 29 m/s and with 2.2kw motor you grind half hour that knife .....:eek: Push that steel in belts harder:thumbsup:
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I was running on half speed mostly, it's more or less my first time on a real grinder and I was taking it slowly to not overheat. The bulk of the grind was done very fast, the last dialing in (tip was a bit off and I swear that it's AEBL that just went one way when I was already quite thin on the tip) and thinning behind the edge went slowly. Next one I will do 90 percent of the grind on 40g and try to use a wheel. :)
 
Also I was trying a new grinding technique for distal taper and went slowly to make sure everything is simmetrical. I am sure I will get much quicker now.
 
Not knife related, but part of it came out of my shop. Its a collaboration with Guillermo Scarilli, I made the inlaid Cuba map in ebony and he did the rest. Hope you guys like it.

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Storm W said:
I still love your work. Have you worked with 4V or CPM M4?
I have to ask, what part of France did you move to?
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No, I try to limit the number of steels I work with...
I haven’t found any need to go beyond z-wear and I don’t care for all that grinding. Much prefer forging

I haven't actually moved...but I’m here trying it out for three months and I am about 40 minutes north west of Paris
 
Grinding progress. Currently fine scotchbrite. I think I did that dip line in gyuto by thining the edge on a side of the wheel. I might go back to try to even it out. Steep learning curve with the new grinder. Also, I had two short incounters with the running belt (not pleasent :)
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I'm building myself one of these set-up style RFI's for building slip joint knives. I have a standard Ruple jig from Knifedogs but this one should make all the final adjustments a little easier to dial in. I have a few more things to do yet and waiting on my adjustment knobs to arrive but should be complete soon. So thankful for owning a mill. Makes making tools like this a breeze and saves me an insane amount of money!
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Signalprick said:
Hello,
Just finished up my 2nd slipjoint pocket knife build. A Tony Bose design barlow with a hand rubbed 01 blade and spring. I think I have the knife making bug! Next up for me is I'm going to build one of them elite set-up style RFI jigs like that one company sells for $950 o_O :confused:
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Awesome dude. Very nice
 
Finally got around to finishing my quench plates (or straightening plates as the case may be). Special thanks to @J. Keeton for his youtube video which finally motivated me to finish this. I modified his design a bit with springs to accommodate tapered spines and forged bevels.
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