First off, I'm just a hobby type person, so I know that I don't need great tools, etc.
I know that most knifemaking tasks can be accomplished by fairly primitive means with enough elbow grease and ingenuity.
I'm also dealing with a fairly limited budget, largely self-imposed, but none the less, limited, and, I'll admit it, I have a cheepskate streak too...
My question is this. In "typical" knifemaking tasks, how useful/necessary is a hardy hole?
I'm working on finding a proper anvil, but in the meantime, I have a legit source to get a decent piece of rr track, and a dragster sander with which to face it. Is it worth my time to try to make myself a hardy hole in this? I'm not really concerned with a horn, as I do have a tinsmith stake, I just need to build a fixture for it.
Thanks
I know that most knifemaking tasks can be accomplished by fairly primitive means with enough elbow grease and ingenuity.
I'm also dealing with a fairly limited budget, largely self-imposed, but none the less, limited, and, I'll admit it, I have a cheepskate streak too...
My question is this. In "typical" knifemaking tasks, how useful/necessary is a hardy hole?
I'm working on finding a proper anvil, but in the meantime, I have a legit source to get a decent piece of rr track, and a dragster sander with which to face it. Is it worth my time to try to make myself a hardy hole in this? I'm not really concerned with a horn, as I do have a tinsmith stake, I just need to build a fixture for it.
Thanks