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Major pain in the butt! Had to step away a few times and come back to it. I love the steel but it is a bear to hand sand.

Thanks! It is forged out of CruForge V steel. Brass guard, g10 spacer. Australian Ringed Gidgee handle. 600 grit hand finish on the blade, though the light is not right to see it.

Still working on handle and guard. Battery died in my respirator so taking a break while it charges back up. Forged out of cruforge v

Cool. Sounds good.

Dug up this picture of mine when I set it up. Not saying it’s a great design but you can see the contact wheel is free hanging.

Are you planning to change speeds with 1 step pulley and 1 fixed size pulley. If so, I’m not sure how well that would work since as you move down to the smaller rings, there will be less tension on the v-belt. Single speed is doable but it’s really nice to be able to change speeds. Like I...

Nice, That is a great deal. I have a coote that I got to set up as a dedicated slack belt grinder. Before I pulled the platen off, I did some flat grinding on it and it was a real smooth grind. Nice find. If it is the 10”, the contact wheel has to free hang over the edge of something as...

IMG also makes high quality stencils and they have really good customer service. I started off etching and didn’t like it and have since swapped over to hot stamping. If you’re still trying to decide, I’d say take a peek at Ed Caffrey’s page on the topic http://caffreyknives.net/marking_art.html

I use Inkscape. It's the open source (free) version of Adobe illustrator. Works really well for knife designs.

In my experience, sodium bisulfate works better and faster than vinegar. It can be picked up from a pool supply and is usually marketed and "ph down" or ph minus. As it is intended to lower the ph in pools and such. Usually sold in a powder form. Put some in some water and good to go. Lasts a...

Or just upload it to imgur and grab the link it gives you. Don't think YouTube does photos

I've also seen people mount the small wheel attachment on the opposite side from the flat platen, then simply pull out the tooling arm and rotate 180 degrees. Voila But depending on your grinder and clearances, etc.. it may or may not work. The only small wheel I use is 3/4"

Yeah, shoving pins into domestic lumber is one thing... shoving them into a very expensive knife block sized piece of burlwood is another. And, like I mentioned...can be a challenging thing. Burl eyes are much harder than the straight-grained wood is. It's sort of like a bunch of "knots"...

Yeah, I'd agree with the 50/50 thing with that cheap one. I always chalked it up to not being able to push the pins into the wood. But it may not be just that. I bent one of the pins on mine pretty bad trying to push it into an exotic wood. That's when I decided to use a pinless meter. Most of...

I have one of those. It does okay. I also have a more expensive pinless lignomat meter. There are advantages and disadvantages to the 2 styles. Obviously the ones with pins have to penetrate the wood and just give a reading at the depth the pins penetrate. This leaves little holes in your wood...

Another option is if you know someone with a 3d printer, it would be pretty easy to print a sanding block in whatever radius you want. They are getting really common nowadays!

I must say, I've done this same thing. Buy bigger chunks (or whole burls) and resaw them down. I would reiterate what was said earlier about moisture meter. A lot of turners who do bowls, prefer to rough out the bowl when the wood is still green (wet). Then they coat it in something like...

Sounds like I've been doing it the same way Ed has. What Ed is saying is that he doesn't drill any holes in anything (including the tang) until after the handle block is epoxied to the tang. So there's no way for it to shift since it is already epoxied. Once the tang is epoxied into the block of...

I have only done the dry ice myself. But it was always my understanding that AEB-L simply did not need the cryo treatment, only the sub-zero. It is unfortunate, in my mind, that so many people only want stainless. I gave in for a while and did a few stainless blades. I still have some AEB-L...

When you first turn it on, it's easy for the bubbles to climb all the way up the chamber and suck resin into your vacuum pump. That resin will harden inside your pump from the heat it generates and cause the pump to fail (unfortunately, I know from experience, lol). So if you can see inside the...