Recent content by setlab

Ya I suppose your right on actually cutting the thing up into blanks, that would be a chore. Thanks,

Before I go out and make a impulse buy I thought I would run this one past you guys. I found someone selling a really big and old lumber mill saw blade that stands 71" tall and he says it is 1/4" thick. Does $100 for something like that sound like a pretty good deal? I have plenty of knife steel...

Well I found my problem...I was using your die backwards lol. I knew there was a reason there was always a lip left sticking up. Thanks for the die swap offer but I'm eventually going to buy both sets, that is if I ever start making more stuff from kydex.

Ok I'll give that a shot. Is there a good rule of thumb for how much eyelet must be sticking out past the end of the kydex to form a good rolled over eye? Looks like I'll have to make a jig or something to trim these 1/4" eyelets down, I saw you have a smaller s60 eyelet but they're only .031"...

This was my first attempt at setting eyelets, I was using .068" kydex, .321" long eyelets, and a set of dies I all bought from USA Knifemaker. I've think that I'm either using eyelets that are too long for the kydex being used or either my dies or my eyelets are a mismatch or not made within...

With my 6" platen I would constantly grind little dents into the blade where the end of my platen was if I stopped moving the blade for any amount of time. Having a long platen I don't think I'll ever have to deal with an issue like that. Plus I think it might add some versatility to the...

Well that saved me a little bit of time, I just held my platen glass up to my grinder frame Looks like I'll have to raise it up an inch or two for belt clearance. Luckily when I designed my grinder a long time ago I didn't know where I wanted to have my tracking wheel so I made a somewhat...

I think I understand, keep the top platten roller below the tracking wheel to give it more surface area to track on? I wanted to be sure before I cut into my aluminum plate, that stuff is like kriptonite to find locally in small pieces. thanks

I'mI in the process of beefing up my grinder and am making a new flat platten for it. My old flat platen was only 6" long and caused more headaches than I care to say trying to grind a longer blade flat. To solve that I bought one of those 15" glass platen backers on usaknifemaker and plan to...

If you haven't already ask on Iforgeiron, there is a power hammer section over there.

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