C Craft
Well-Known Member
So I had bought a file guide when I first got into this knife making and here a while back I went to use and tightened it and snap! Of course I was told by the maker I must have over-tightened it. Ah, Nope, wasn't tight enough to stop movement yet.
So disillusioned with hardened file guides I began searching. I soon realized the guide didn't have to be hardened at all. All I needed was some carbide strips for the belt to run against!! So I have made a couple of file guides similar to this.
The first one I made I used JB Weld and it held until one night I finished using it, took it off the knife and lightly tossed it up on the work bench!! The impact caused the JB Weld to fail. The epoxy had been fairly thin.
So I thought about doing something like this one in the photo I got off the net. Grooves for the epoxy but that still doesn't allow for the fact the epoxy will not perpetrate the carbide strips!
So After doing some reading about the subject I found out that carbide can be soldered with silver solder to steel. It can also be brazed to steel.
So the million dollar question has anyone tried soldering or brazing carbide to steel and which is the easiest to do! From my reading I think the soldering w/silver solder might be the best!
Anyone got any advice on the subject?????
So disillusioned with hardened file guides I began searching. I soon realized the guide didn't have to be hardened at all. All I needed was some carbide strips for the belt to run against!! So I have made a couple of file guides similar to this.
The first one I made I used JB Weld and it held until one night I finished using it, took it off the knife and lightly tossed it up on the work bench!! The impact caused the JB Weld to fail. The epoxy had been fairly thin.
So I thought about doing something like this one in the photo I got off the net. Grooves for the epoxy but that still doesn't allow for the fact the epoxy will not perpetrate the carbide strips!
So After doing some reading about the subject I found out that carbide can be soldered with silver solder to steel. It can also be brazed to steel.
So the million dollar question has anyone tried soldering or brazing carbide to steel and which is the easiest to do! From my reading I think the soldering w/silver solder might be the best!
Anyone got any advice on the subject?????