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03-08-2015, 04:07 PM
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Utility blade, 1080 steel, IMPROVEMENTS.
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03-08-2015, 04:14 PM
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What was it you were using to do your grinding?
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03-08-2015, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by jmccustomknives
What was it you were using to do your grinding?
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Grizzly 2x72 belt grinder and a bench grinder.
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03-08-2015, 05:15 PM
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I think what James was about to suggest was that you do more grinding on your blades. The grind on that blade is much too shallow to work well for anything but light chopping. Keep that grind going all the way across the blade, turn the entire blade width into a V. This is yet another reason why we emphasize that a new makers first blades should be small blades: simply put, new makers find grinding difficult and time consuming and they are in a hurry to finish and consequently end up with those 'axe' grinds. That resembles my first knife to a scary degree, exact same edge. I call mine a sharpened club. On the plus side, it sounds like you are making good progress with your heat treatment.....
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03-08-2015, 05:40 PM
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Ray covered the problems with the edge. Bringing the point up above the mid-line of the blade and taking the clip a little farther back might make it look a bit better. The handle looks great but I don't know how well Western Cedar is going to hold up without stabilization. At least it showed you paying attention to detail with it. Test the heck out of that knife and start your next one.
Doug
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03-08-2015, 08:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug Lester
Ray covered the problems with the edge. Bringing the point up above the mid-line of the blade and taking the clip a little farther back might make it look a bit better. The handle looks great but I don't know how well Western Cedar is going to hold up without stabilization. At least it showed you paying attention to detail with it. Test the heck out of that knife and start your next one.
Doug
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It acted as if stabilized, but I didn't fully trust that it was. I SOAKED it with thin Super Glue to toughen it up. I know exactly how well that works. I can't see any reason for this cedar to NOT be very durable. I gotta figure out a smaller knife to run, I'm leery of ending up with one that's TOO small. An idea is to dig through my box of knives from years of collecting and try to emulate one.
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