checkering file

[Jim Coffee]

I'm looking to start doing thumb grooves on the spine of my knifes and was wondering where you guy's get your checkering files and is there a size or pattern that is best? Thanks for your help..

 

[DonL]

When I add jimping, I use the 20 lpi from Jantz.

20 lpi Checkering File

 

[Diamond G Knives]

I got mine from Brownells.
Thise things sure are easier to use than triangle files!!

God Bless
Mike

 

[Drew Riley]

When I add gimping, I use the 20 lpi from Jantz.

20 lpi Checkering File

Same here. One of the best investments I ever made!

 

[curtisk]

Jim, I too use a 20 lpi file, but sometimes that just ain't enough. I also use a cut of wheel to nothc the spine and then finish them off with a chainsaw file. ATTACH=CONFIG]33103[/ATTACH]

 

[Sampson knifeworks]

For me the checkering files leave a very sharp cut at the bottom of the groove, I stopped using them when I had stress cracks forming at the bottom of these grooves when I heat treated and actually had a few blades snap in half. This is why we round off inside corners on hidden tang knives? Maybe it's just me and I was doing something wrong ??
Just my two cents,
Clint

 

[Ausbrooks]

Jim I recently got a 20LPI checkering file and it does what I want. Here is a pic of a D2 tactical recently HT'd.

 

[rhinoknives]

I use a 1/8" or 1/4" Carbide burr, in my Foredom Flex Shaft hand drill.
I do all of it after HT. Works great!

Next to my Hardcore Products 2 x 72" Belt Grinder.
The Flex shaft is the best machine I ever purchased!

Laurence

www.rhinoknives.com/