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Any ideas on how to clean surface conditioning belts? The debris leaves smearing on steel and the belt is real new. Air blast doesn't remove the material and I'm apprehensive to use a piece of steel to rough it up. Scott

Oh for the love of sanding. Crank up the tunes and zone out. It is looking great.

Some Olivewood. I sure like this wood! .125 AEB-L @ 60HRC Copper Corby's and natural Micarta liners.

Drill everything, grind the edge centerline( 45degrees), chamfer holes, sand well and clean prior to HT. In my experience, AEB-L gets hot very quickly, so, dip, dip, and dip some more while grinding.

Appropriate. It is going to make someone a nice present.

Nice weather today. Had to choose what to do, so I did some open door shop time.

Thanks Ted! I figured out that if I enter the wood relatively slowly with the bit, I'll get a cleaner outcome.

Crap.

Thanks Greg. Plagiarize away. <<< What a compliment! Didn't have to do the removable scales, but the challenge was there...

Knocked out a small Damascus knife today with removable Osage Orange scales and Green liners.

Hey Greg. (Just had nothing to do with big blocks.) Thanks for the encouraging words. It’s my cleanest blade to date and I am still working out ergonomics. Got lucky with the colors though.

Another out of the shop today. Stabilized Burl with Black, Orange and Green liners. Copper Corbies. .125 AEB-L @ 60HRC

I take my chef knives to .010 at the edge and then use a made jig on my belt grinder to set the edge with a 400 grit belt running against the platen. Takes 2 minutes. I find it easier to follow a flat edge on final sharpening using a KME set up, if I want to refine the edge further.

If all else fails you could purchase a "cheapo" sword and re-purpose the hardware. Such as https://www.budk.com/Sword-Canes-2893 Me, I would make a collar and then use a wood handle that had a slight interference taper.

I think that falls into the Worn Out classification.;) Sorry, I couldn't help that. Can you make out the manufacturer/maker?

Camostripes AEB-L

Today's project.

Hey Ted, thank you. That handle really looks good outside. The picture fails a bit. Years ago I used to turn pens and other things. I had two of these pen blanks that I epoxied together, ripped and flattened. I've not been able to find more of this unfortunately. It is not thermoinfused like...

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