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03-24-2015, 08:56 PM
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More bowling ball rind scales! HUGE beast.
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03-24-2015, 09:39 PM
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Sort of a kopish looking sort of a beast. You did better on your bevels and your handle. Keep up the improvements. Try working the heck out of it and see how it works and feels.
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03-24-2015, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Doug Lester
Sort of a kopish looking sort of a beast. You did better on your bevels and your handle. Keep up the improvements. Try working the heck out of it and see how it works and feels.
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I already took it out for its inaugural run. The only complaint I could find was that it's a little hard to find the sweet spot on the blade that transfers the least shock to your forearm possible. But it WAS dark and I was swinging at an awkwardly placed branch, so could have been operator error. It DID cut insanely well, and peel thin sheets off like I've never really seen before, which is nice. I cut it short as I realized it was too easy to hit myself in the dark with it like that. That time I saw my wrist bone at a campout reminded me.
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03-25-2015, 08:23 AM
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Looks like one of my Long Fu carving knives only heavier. Keep testing ....
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03-25-2015, 09:34 AM
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The bevels keep improving man. keep it up.
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03-25-2015, 10:05 AM
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The bevels keep improving man. keep it up.
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Thanks! I tried C clamping it to a piece of angle steel and angling the tool rest. In some ways it was harder than freehand and in some ways easier. I set the angle too steep and almost ran the bevel off the spine before resetting it and basically re-grinding the whole thing. I need to learn to use the jig and get the angle right on the first try but it did make everything a lot more repeatable which I like and I think it should give me way more consistent results from here on out. If that were a piece of 1080 I would have been done with it in no time flat.
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03-25-2015, 04:49 PM
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Well if you're trying out using jigs, check out Trollsky on youtube and watch his video on how to grind a bevel. He has very simple but effective bevel grinding jig. O
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03-25-2015, 05:08 PM
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Will do.
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