Lerch
Well-Known Member
Hi everybody
Well after the holiday break i was getting ready to start some more knives and after doing a little bit of reading on some Ed Fowler books i have a question. In his books if i am reading everything right he advises to initially grind your knife to just shy of 1/16" of where it will finish at. Heat treat the blade and then after grind away the excess 1"16th of steel. He said that grinding away the original excess 1/16" of steel would allow more carbon to be stored in the deeper steel that you expose. Just to state i am not 100% sure have read all of this right
My question is should i leave my grinds thick until i heat treat (grind them to 320 grit for clay quenching) and then after treatment grind away excess steel?? Or should i grind them most of the way down (keeping in mind i will have some decarb and scale to remove) take them down to about 400grit and just a few thousandaths from finished, then clay quench/heat treat??
I hope i worded all of that correctly,
thanks
steve
Well after the holiday break i was getting ready to start some more knives and after doing a little bit of reading on some Ed Fowler books i have a question. In his books if i am reading everything right he advises to initially grind your knife to just shy of 1/16" of where it will finish at. Heat treat the blade and then after grind away the excess 1"16th of steel. He said that grinding away the original excess 1/16" of steel would allow more carbon to be stored in the deeper steel that you expose. Just to state i am not 100% sure have read all of this right
My question is should i leave my grinds thick until i heat treat (grind them to 320 grit for clay quenching) and then after treatment grind away excess steel?? Or should i grind them most of the way down (keeping in mind i will have some decarb and scale to remove) take them down to about 400grit and just a few thousandaths from finished, then clay quench/heat treat??
I hope i worded all of that correctly,
thanks
steve