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[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Eric, When using mosaic pins, Always try and "clock" the pins so they are all the same orientation.

A good trick for doing this is to saw a shallow slot in the end at the orientation you want to be the 12:00-6:00 o'clock line ( thus, "clocked"). This will assure that the pins are all oriented the same when ground flush after assembly. The slot also makes it easy to turn the pins during glue-up.

 

[Natlek]

My first frame handle with steel. Steel frame is half the thickness of spine of knife .I think it would look cool that way

 

[REK Knives]

Bunka

Love your knives man, so elegant and rustic at the same time!

 

[HSC ///]

Love your knives man, so elegant and rustic at the same time!

Thx. Another one going out to same customer. Laminated hitachi white steel core and stainless cladding. Same ebony and wenge handle combo

 

[Lorien]

I'm swedging swedges

 

[Scaniaman]

2 mm stock on 500 mm wheel. It will slice your pants off

 

[Natlek]

2 mm stock on 500 mm wheel. It will slice your pants off

Welcome in the world of hollow my friend , you would like it more and more ....
Chisel hollow next one Best of all three world if you ask me..
You grind free hand , right ? Like it !

Chisel/ hollow ground blade

I wanted to try 11 inch wheel on my new grinder for the first time so i grind this .....3mm on spine , hollow grind only on one side and it is 0.3mm now on edge .Now it is thinner then full flat grind , thicker then double hollow grind .So what do you think , why I don t see knives grind like...

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[DeadboxHero]

Handmade knife Maxamet

 

[Scaniaman]

Welcome in the world of hollow my friend , you would like it more and more ....
Chisel hollow next one Best of all three world if you ask me..
You grind free hand , right ? Like it !

Chisel/ hollow ground blade

I wanted to try 11 inch wheel on my new grinder for the first time so i grind this .....3mm on spine , hollow grind only on one side and it is 0.3mm now on edge .Now it is thinner then full flat grind , thicker then double hollow grind .So what do you think , why I don t see knives grind like...

bladeforums.com

Yes I am reamly liking the big wheel hollow grind, Excellent geometry! And belts work better + longer on wheels.
Yes I only do free hand grinding so far. Thanks, it's getting there!

 

[Scaniaman]

Handmade knife Maxamet

This makes me think I should look into buying some stock in the abrasives industry. What brand are you using again

Hot knife too!

 

[HSC ///]

Smaller gyuto
Forged in arizona, completed in France

Blade of Suminagashi clad mild steel over Takefu white core
190x49
3.5 spine at heel and tapering
Wenge and Banksia

 

[eric brinkerhoff]

Eric, When using mosaic pins, Always try and "clock" the pins so they are all the same orientation.

A good trick for doing this is to saw a shallow slot in the end at the orientation you want to be the 12:00-6:00 o'clock line ( thus, "clocked"). This will assure that the pins are all oriented the same when ground flush after assembly. The slot also makes it easy to turn the pins during glue-up.

Yes I was trying to clock the pins but things were getting so messy and the solvent I was using wasn't cleaning up the epoxy very well, so I started panicking and forgot to rotate the pins!

 

[Lorien]

Yes I was trying to clock the pins but things were getting so messy and the solvent I was using wasn't cleaning up the epoxy very well, so I started panicking and forgot to rotate the pins!

what works best for epoxy, denatured alcohol, acetone?

 

[eric brinkerhoff]

Acetone usually works great,brake cleaner is good,Hoppes#9 gun cleaner has been great,even WD-40 works sometimes . But I was out of everything and reached for a can of starting fluid which didn't work too good! I probably shouldn't have started working on the knife until I got some more acetone...

 

[Natlek]

Yes I was trying to clock the pins but things were getting so messy and the solvent I was using wasn't cleaning up the epoxy very well, so I started panicking and forgot to rotate the pins!

Personally i like them more if maker don t clock them ................look so uniform that way .They are not timing belts and that they should be tuned so to be aligned perfectly......they are just nice looking pins , upside downside at seven clock .....no mater

 

[eric brinkerhoff]

Yeah, I don't even use mosaic pins much anymore, but when I do I look for ones that don't have so much of a geometric pattern so they don't need clocking.

 

[eric brinkerhoff]

Got er done!

 

[Lorien]

^that's cool as hell

today I dug this motor out of purgatory- it ran the previous grinder- and think it will make for a good disc grinder. Might be able to squeeze it into that tiny space but only just. I think I'll build a sliding shelf for it, but only just started thinking about it. It's 1.5hp and runs at 1750rpm. I wonder if it's possible to run it through the vfd my grinder uses?

did some hand sanding

 

[A.McPherson]

I wonder if it's possible to run it through the vfd my grinder uses?

If it's a 3 phase, and is a smaller hp than your vfd is rated for, then yes it'll probably work just fine!

 

[Hubert S.]

I wonder if it's possible to run it through the vfd my grinder uses?

It looks like a regular single phase motor with start/run capacitors, not a 3-phase.