Stipacomata
New Member
Hi, I was taught by my shop teacher in school on making knives. He showed my by taking old files and grinding them down on a bench grinder. My current setup is a 10" bench grinder and then using a regular 4" bench belt sander. I do like grinding by hand and I am at the point of having to buy a new wheel. Anyone have any ideas on where to look and which to buy for the grinder? Also I have been reading a lot of posts on this site and they are all talking about heat treating a file in an oven first before grinding and working on it. My question to that is can I use a regular kitchen oven for the 400 at two hours? What does the heating of the file accomplish? Thanks for taking time to help
Pete
Pete