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Didn’t run calculations as far as strength no. I know there is a way to do it but I’m not sure the formula.

Yes. I went with 3x3x3/8” angle and I’m going for 16 tons. Coal irons was not built quite beefy enough for me to feel comfortable building it even at 12 tons.

That’s ridiculous I have never done the math on their system. That would make me very hesitant to ever buy anything from them with that kind of false advertising.

Their presses aren’t actually 12 ton even though they advertise them as such?

Do you have wear plates you’re going to bolt to the side to keep it from moving around? Would’ve been a little bit easier to do that if you had done your angle iron like this a lot more contact for the wear plates to hit.

Thank you for the advice. I debated doing that and couldn’t decide if it would help or hurt me. I’ll add a little bit in

Got this sketched up this morning. Most boring thing I’ve ever designed but I think it will do the job.

Cool!

Max OAL 15” and a lanyard hole.

Great info! Thank you!

Best thing you can do to help with hand sanding is get really good at grinding. I’m not there yet but it is definitely the key to make hand sanding quick. Just got a disk grinder hopefully that will improve speed even more.

Look what came today.

Don’t know the exact challenges some would be pretty classic cutting competition stations and some they’re leaving as a bit of a surprise so I’m just trying to do something well rounded. I appreciate the advice!

The Texas knife makers Guild has a hammer in next month and there will be a cutting competition and I think I will take a competition chopper. Has anybody made one that can give any kind of tips on the geometry? Looks like most of them are flat ground with a convex edge. It looks like in some of...

I used to have one like that it would absolutely murder an edge. Unless they have drastically change something then I wouldn’t consider it a good option at all

That V Sharpe looks very interesting my only concern is the limited angles and having rods would result in a slightly different edge than having a regular flat I believe?

I can only afford so much underwear in a month.