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a nakiri is simply a vegetable knife. like a chef knife, the height of the blade is to give you knuckle clearance when cutting on a board and to give you the ability to cut stacks of veggies easily. There’s no right or wrong height or length. A traditional nakiri is super thin which doesn’t...

That slope is a natural result of grinding a tapered blade with a round nose at the front of the cutting edge. It does not have to be there, but if you don’t you’ll end up with some funky shape.

that loud noise is called “ringing”. On industrial grade VFDs, you can eliminate that sound by changing the carrier frequency setting. As far as motors that are designed for VFD use, they are called “inverter duty” and the difference is in the insulation used. Class “I“ insulation is made...

You can do an A/B switch, or more cost effectively, use Dryer plugs if the disc grinder is close to your belt grinder so that you can reach the VFD. Wire a pigtail with a male dryer plug on each of your grinders. Wire a pigtail on the VFD output with a female dryer plug. Then all you have...

Most VFDs can run on single phase, but it has to be two phases like 220V or 480V (two hots). The KB drive is the only one that I know of that will take single phase 110V and a neutral and put out 220V three phase and they can only pull it off because the biggest they can run is a 2HP if I'm...

that may be. I have had a number of knives in VG10 and they do all sharpen a bit differently, but once sharpened I don’t see any blatant differences in how well they hold that edge. The Tojiro VG10 honestly reminds me of AEBL in that it forms a persistent burr that can take a good deal of...

I can only guess, but I’d expect that granite to last years.

Those are great looking knives. Very similar to the Shun Elite series. For production knives, I have been very happy with VG10 steel.

Interesting. I have not had an issue with a knife becoming magnetic. I have a watch demagnetizer here. I wonder it if would be strong enough for a knife.

I have heard of a number of guys using ceramic tile. 1/4" pyroceramic (fireplace glass) is the norm. I think Boss sells common sized ones here on the site (USA Knifemaker). I took dimensions off my platen and went down to the local glass shop and told them I wanted a piece of 1/4"...

Same. 8 inch chef, 6 inch chef, 4 inch petty / paring knife, long slicer, fillet knife, and a long serrated el-cheapo beater knife for bread and pineapples. I have knives galore and those are the ones that get used. (The long slicer cuts watermelons that are too long for my fillet knife...

Titanium knives became trendy ten or fifteen years ago. Titanium is not great for knives. For a dive knife, or any salt water knife, it will be hard to beat 440C. A dive knife is usually a prybar and a tank knocker more than anything else. I stopped carrying a knife after 300 or so dives...

People who don't understand the value of handmade is why I raised my prices. When I was cheap, that's who wanted knives from me. When I started raising prices to actually cover my costs, most of those people went away but I still got inquiries from tire kickers. It wasn't until I raised my...

Walmart is down the street. You can get a perfectly usable knife for less than a hundred dollars. Handmade is for people who appreciate the difference, and it costs money.

shields for slipjoints comes to mind. I'm sure a youtube search will uncover an entire subset of humans who have CNC'd these and are manufacturing a tiny robot army

Calvin Robinson made all of his slipjoints with washers if I’m not mistaken.

that’s the Nail Nick mack daddy right there! (straight pulls made with a cutoff wheel) I have no idea what i would use it for, BUT I WANT ONE!

If you don’t have a milling machine, then washers are the solution. If you do have a milling machine then relieving the liners (leaving a contact pad) is the route to go on a slipjoint. On a liner lock or fancier design, some makers opt for bearings and will mill a recess pocket to hide the...

this. Abandon any notions of a “set” and you will end up with a far better collection based on how / what you actually prepare. If you want all of the handles to match then it makes sense to buy one brand, but that’s the only reason to buy one brand. Still, your money will go farther buying...

Sometimes those resurrected projects are the best ones.