Self Made Knives
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My grinder is home made, and I made the platen out of angle iron. It works well for the most part, but I've been fighting the edges since day one. The angle iron had a slight radius on the corner and I've tried matching the radius on the outside edge by filing it down.
They look like a match, but it seems no matter what I try, the plunges have a slightly different look side to side. One side seems sharper and the other rounder. How do you guys have your platen edges? Should I just mill the whole thing down to sharp corners on both sides? I like the look of a slightly radiused platen on the grinds, but I'm sick of them not matching.
Or, I was thinking about adding the ceramic glass to my platen. Hopefully the edges of the glass would be the same. Or, do you have to radius the glass too when you buy it? Advice and opinions?
They look like a match, but it seems no matter what I try, the plunges have a slightly different look side to side. One side seems sharper and the other rounder. How do you guys have your platen edges? Should I just mill the whole thing down to sharp corners on both sides? I like the look of a slightly radiused platen on the grinds, but I'm sick of them not matching.
Or, I was thinking about adding the ceramic glass to my platen. Hopefully the edges of the glass would be the same. Or, do you have to radius the glass too when you buy it? Advice and opinions?
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