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I'm really liking the file work on the liners! And the makers mark on the choil is super cool!

Really nice, Steve. That's about the perfect size for my taste, and nice an slim as well.

One must sacrifice knuckle meat to the grinder or doom will rain down upon thee!

That’s a great upgrade. I use my Z-axis dro more than anything.

I’m with Bob on the gas pistons. The interwebs are filled with stories of woe and swapping to a spring is the common solution. The problem isn’t that they die, it’s that they die slowly over time, which for a knifemaker means a lot of “why the heck won’t this belt track properly?” because that...

Flipping the grinder onto it's side is the easy button for 90 degree angles, and particularly on an inside radius. Being able to lay your blade flat on a work rest and bump it up against a contact wheel running left/right makes it much easier to grind an inside radius and keep the grinds square...

So true that it hurts. And if you start out on a shoestring like most of us, the secret to getting profitable is to only steal operating cash from the joint bank account a little at a time. Don't buy belts and steel in the same pay period. Make a big deal to your wife every time you make a sale.

Brent, these guys here will never steer you wrong. Grinding is 80% finesse. If you have a picture of a specific problem / result you're getting then I promise you that somebody here has already climbed that mountain and can save you a whole lot of suffering.

Larrin talks about variations of AEB-L from different mills. The recipe is nearly identical, the difference being that the stuff you get from NJ Steel baron is apparently the "other" version and you need to raise your oven temp about 50 degrees when you harden it. This came up on a different...

KMG was the gold standard until about 10 years ago when Travis Wuertz revolutionized the game with the TW90 grinder. (I'm getting older, so don't quote me... when somebody says 20 years ago I think 1988). The only holdup on that grinder was that it was very expensive, even for a 2x72 which...

I'm guessing that you want that swoopy curve at the top of your plunge lines? Hanging the belt off is the way to go but it takes a steady hand to get both sides the same. And as Ken mentioned, it's the j-flex belts that really give you want you want, but you still want to hang your lower grit...

I'd like to have one of these for resawing blocks and making handle scales

the legs are sheet metal, but the frame and the saw body are cast. Unless you're talking about the cheap little sheet metal table, which is just a cheap little sheet metal table. I always planned to upgrade the table and then realized it didn't bother me in the slightest. All I'm doing is...

Look here, there are plenty of documentaries where astronauts end up in really bad situations, and they go from bad to worse because they didn't bring a knife. Forget Apollo 13- that was a walk in the park. Imagine landing in a world run by damn, dirty apes who tie you up and put you in a...

I wonder if the astronauts were given machetes in case the Russians picked them up on return... Of course they could have just beaten their attackers to death with that enormous Hasselblad camera they took to the moon.

That knife was inspired by Starship Troopers. NASA wasn't about to let Buzz get taken by the bugs!!

If you were hopelessly lost and needed to survive for a longer amount of time than simply waiting for rescue, there is no single item which would be more valuable than a knife. A knife gives you the ability to make tools, which is exactly why primitive archeological sites are littered with...

beautiful work!

Just realize that bushcrafters take great pride in beating the snot out of their knives. It's the whole point for many of them- to have a knife that they can go out in the woods with and pretend that saws and hatchets don't exist. I'm not hating on them, they're good customers. They like...

sure thing. let me see if i can dig it up. i can’t even remember how big a block i have left, but whatever it is, it’s yours. PM me your address and I’ll get it out on Monday.