Split down a piece of Randy Haas HHH Knives Ladder Damascus and am making 4 1 piece fixies, no handle scales. They will get ground, all edges rounded off spine and handle wise and then coated with some of Matt Zyla's clear ceramic coating. I learned my oven gets to 1500 in about 35 minutes, but needs to soak longer to get the whole oven up to temp. First attempt coated in ATP641 didn't harden fully, 2nd coat without the ATP didn't harden, but I had the blades closer to the door. 3rd time was the charm, thinner atp641 coat, longer soak before adding blades and I pushed the blades further into the oven and they came out nice! Cleaned them up on the contact wheel like a surface grinder up to a ceramic Trizact A30 and a quick acid etch!
Finally played with the 12" contact wheel I got last summer! Bigger wider blade in .200" 80crv2 to see how far the grind would go up the thicker blade and playing with swedges. Then a Nitro V 1/8" thick blade, made it into a clip point and did a swedge, too. Brought them up to 400 felt backed finishing belts. So much easier to hollow grind vs flat grinding! LOL. Got into the groove pretty quickly.
Finally played with the 12" contact wheel I got last summer! Bigger wider blade in .200" 80crv2 to see how far the grind would go up the thicker blade and playing with swedges. Then a Nitro V 1/8" thick blade, made it into a clip point and did a swedge, too. Brought them up to 400 felt backed finishing belts. So much easier to hollow grind vs flat grinding! LOL. Got into the groove pretty quickly.
