backtines
Well-Known Member
Have you ever had one thing go wrong after another ?
I only get to work on my knives after a 12 hour day at work.
I started making a knife a week ago , ground out my profile and began grinding in bevels without a jig. I'm starting to grind my knives freehand now , just because I feel like its my next step in my knife making.
Anyway now that I'm grinding freehand I'm coming across problems that I didn't have before while grinding with my grinding jig. I over shot my plunges and after trying to correct them , I brought them back to far. I just didn't like the way it was coming out. I scrapped , threw it in the corner with the rest of my mistakes.
Started again, ground out another profile ,but this time I used my file guide ,again grinding freehand. (My grinding jig that I used to use had its own plunge guide built in)
After I finished grinding this blade , I noticed that my belts were grinding under my plunges. Cutting grooves under the plunges. It was a lot easier to control that problem before with my jig. Threw that one in the pile as well.
Third profile, came out ok . Back to the grinding . Grinding came out ok . Drilled pin holes. Two 1/8 holes for bolsters and three 3/32 holes for scales. While drilling my last spin hole ,I felt my bit was getting dull, I didn't stop to sharpen bit (laziness ) the darn bit breaks.
Time for HT. I heat treated the blade, came out good. Time for tempering. I took the bread out of the toaster ( we keep the bread in the toaster because if we leave it on the counter Baylee and Codie might grab a snack) for tempering , I took a nap and when I went to remove blade from toaster , there was bread crumbs all over the place. Yup my two dogs got to the bread.
While making the bolsters , I don't know what happened but I may have moved the table on the milling machine and the holes didn't line up right. So I had to make another set. After making another set I cut the dovetails on the backside of bolsters and cut the dovetails on my scales . I peened in the bolsters , but when I went to put the scales up against them there was a slight belly in the bolster from me peening the pins in too hard . It bellied the bolster a bit and I didn't have a nice fit against my scales. Now I had to drill those pins out and ruin another thing. I had to make another set of bolsters.
I made another set of bolsters , but while shinning up the fronts I took a little too much off bottom and didn't line up straight so I figured I'd drill out the lower hole in my tang and move the bolster a little forward. ( of course the blade is hard and didn't have a 1/8 carbide bit ) anyway , I was able straighten the bolster a bit. Bolsters mounted. Scales glued and pinned in place.
Grinding scales and bolsters went fine until my finishing points.
While shinning up bolsters , I started seeing my darn pin holes in bolsters showing up and to my knowledge there is nothing you can do but replace them. No way did I want to try and fix that . So I figured I'd try and get my little all pean and stipple the heck out of the bolster and give a stippled look? Looked terrible. I couldn't hide the pins. So I continued sanding the bolsters down even lower and leave a satin finish to hide the pin holes a bit. That looked good , but when I was ball peening (stippling) I hit too close to front of bolster and screwed up the face of bolster.
I've had it ! This knife is done ! Not for sale ! Goes into the pile With the other junks. I just lost about 25 hours on this one .
Sincerely yours,
Frustrated!
I only get to work on my knives after a 12 hour day at work.
I started making a knife a week ago , ground out my profile and began grinding in bevels without a jig. I'm starting to grind my knives freehand now , just because I feel like its my next step in my knife making.
Anyway now that I'm grinding freehand I'm coming across problems that I didn't have before while grinding with my grinding jig. I over shot my plunges and after trying to correct them , I brought them back to far. I just didn't like the way it was coming out. I scrapped , threw it in the corner with the rest of my mistakes.
Started again, ground out another profile ,but this time I used my file guide ,again grinding freehand. (My grinding jig that I used to use had its own plunge guide built in)
After I finished grinding this blade , I noticed that my belts were grinding under my plunges. Cutting grooves under the plunges. It was a lot easier to control that problem before with my jig. Threw that one in the pile as well.
Third profile, came out ok . Back to the grinding . Grinding came out ok . Drilled pin holes. Two 1/8 holes for bolsters and three 3/32 holes for scales. While drilling my last spin hole ,I felt my bit was getting dull, I didn't stop to sharpen bit (laziness ) the darn bit breaks.
Time for HT. I heat treated the blade, came out good. Time for tempering. I took the bread out of the toaster ( we keep the bread in the toaster because if we leave it on the counter Baylee and Codie might grab a snack) for tempering , I took a nap and when I went to remove blade from toaster , there was bread crumbs all over the place. Yup my two dogs got to the bread.
While making the bolsters , I don't know what happened but I may have moved the table on the milling machine and the holes didn't line up right. So I had to make another set. After making another set I cut the dovetails on the backside of bolsters and cut the dovetails on my scales . I peened in the bolsters , but when I went to put the scales up against them there was a slight belly in the bolster from me peening the pins in too hard . It bellied the bolster a bit and I didn't have a nice fit against my scales. Now I had to drill those pins out and ruin another thing. I had to make another set of bolsters.
I made another set of bolsters , but while shinning up the fronts I took a little too much off bottom and didn't line up straight so I figured I'd drill out the lower hole in my tang and move the bolster a little forward. ( of course the blade is hard and didn't have a 1/8 carbide bit ) anyway , I was able straighten the bolster a bit. Bolsters mounted. Scales glued and pinned in place.
Grinding scales and bolsters went fine until my finishing points.
While shinning up bolsters , I started seeing my darn pin holes in bolsters showing up and to my knowledge there is nothing you can do but replace them. No way did I want to try and fix that . So I figured I'd try and get my little all pean and stipple the heck out of the bolster and give a stippled look? Looked terrible. I couldn't hide the pins. So I continued sanding the bolsters down even lower and leave a satin finish to hide the pin holes a bit. That looked good , but when I was ball peening (stippling) I hit too close to front of bolster and screwed up the face of bolster.
I've had it ! This knife is done ! Not for sale ! Goes into the pile With the other junks. I just lost about 25 hours on this one .
Sincerely yours,
Frustrated!