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Alden Cole
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Wow! That is beautiful.
Bruce McLeish
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outstanding job !
REK Knives
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Thanks guys
Sean Jones
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Nice! Very nice!
Got some shop time in to finish off a bunch of stuff!!!
Where do I begin? 8 piece order, 5 steak knives from premade blanks with BubbleGum TJ Lam handles, chisel pry knife in 3/16" 80CRV 2, Acid etched with Halloween TJ Lam handles, 240 and 200mm chef knives in 3/32" Alabama Damascus and Halloween TJ Lam handles. Guy and his wife like colorful handles!
Also did a 3" EDC blade in Alabama Damascus and Desert Ironwood, kydex sheath.
Last up is a 210mm Nitro V 3/32" blade, 62 rockwell, convex grind with red G10 bolster and liner, black G10 frame and Carbon Fiber burl that I made for the handle.
I played with 3 different firmness of felt (S2-32 from McMaster, F3 and F5 from Amazon. F3 seems to work the best for kitchen knives. The S2-32 from McMaster is very firm and I use it to help blend the full flat grind before I go to the F3 felt. It doesn't give much of a convex to the side of the blade, but works nice to blend and clean up the finish. The F3 gives a nice convex grind for a kitchen knife and I can thin behind the edge with it. The F5 is a bit soft and the area behind the edge stays thick.
One thing I played with it how the platen and belt interact. I have top of the F3 platen slightly back from the belt under tension below the top roller. This created a slight gap between the platen and belt, so when I push into that area, it gives a little more convex, but the belt is still very tight. Works very close to the Rotary Platen I used to have and worked great to thin out just behind the edge. It lets me grind and finish the whole blade on the belt and have a progressive convex grind.
Where do I begin? 8 piece order, 5 steak knives from premade blanks with BubbleGum TJ Lam handles, chisel pry knife in 3/16" 80CRV 2, Acid etched with Halloween TJ Lam handles, 240 and 200mm chef knives in 3/32" Alabama Damascus and Halloween TJ Lam handles. Guy and his wife like colorful handles!
Also did a 3" EDC blade in Alabama Damascus and Desert Ironwood, kydex sheath.
Last up is a 210mm Nitro V 3/32" blade, 62 rockwell, convex grind with red G10 bolster and liner, black G10 frame and Carbon Fiber burl that I made for the handle.
I played with 3 different firmness of felt (S2-32 from McMaster, F3 and F5 from Amazon. F3 seems to work the best for kitchen knives. The S2-32 from McMaster is very firm and I use it to help blend the full flat grind before I go to the F3 felt. It doesn't give much of a convex to the side of the blade, but works nice to blend and clean up the finish. The F3 gives a nice convex grind for a kitchen knife and I can thin behind the edge with it. The F5 is a bit soft and the area behind the edge stays thick.
One thing I played with it how the platen and belt interact. I have top of the F3 platen slightly back from the belt under tension below the top roller. This created a slight gap between the platen and belt, so when I push into that area, it gives a little more convex, but the belt is still very tight. Works very close to the Rotary Platen I used to have and worked great to thin out just behind the edge. It lets me grind and finish the whole blade on the belt and have a progressive convex grind.
the Midwest Knifemakers Guild hosted a Hammer In at USAknifemaker this weekend.
2 things to consider if you haven’t.
1. Join a knifemakers group. You make friends that actually listen when you talk about knives as opposed to your wife and normal friends.
2. Go to Hammer In’s. You will gain 1 to 2 years knowledge. I made that up but I’m not far off.
Jason Krause shows how to enhance a hamon.
Peter Martin and I made some Ti-zirc canister Damascus. 2 billets, both turned out pretty good.
Carlin A managed the forging tent and ran several people thru making their first knife shaped object.
ABS MS Howard Clark gave a heat treating demo using both water and Parks 50
Tyler Turner gave a couple sessions on making a slippy.
2 things to consider if you haven’t.
1. Join a knifemakers group. You make friends that actually listen when you talk about knives as opposed to your wife and normal friends.
2. Go to Hammer In’s. You will gain 1 to 2 years knowledge. I made that up but I’m not far off.
Jason Krause shows how to enhance a hamon.
Peter Martin and I made some Ti-zirc canister Damascus. 2 billets, both turned out pretty good.
Carlin A managed the forging tent and ran several people thru making their first knife shaped object.
ABS MS Howard Clark gave a heat treating demo using both water and Parks 50
Tyler Turner gave a couple sessions on making a slippy.
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REK Knives
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Wow looks like a ton of fun!
Nick Riggi
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Just Flamed Anodized this Ti Framelock- just need to grind the blade. This is the 5th Ti Framelock I have built now- getting the hang of it!
Smallshop
KNIFE MAKER
...I just thought I was boring....lol.
Smallshop
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Awesome OP! pics along the way?
opaul
KNIFE MAKER
Sure! I’m hoping to start framing by this weekend.
Gene Kimmi
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Working on another batch. One of these is out of the new MagnaCut steel that Larrin Thomas created. I'm anxious to test it out.
Alden Cole
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Nice! Please tell us how you like it when you have tried it out.Working on another batch. One of these is out of the new MagnaCut steel that Larrin Thomas created. I'm anxious to test it out.
REK Knives
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I can testify that magnacut rough grinds (pre-ht) well! I got about 45 small blades on one belt
