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I have recently been drilling my thong holes to 5/16 or on larger knives 3/8........and not using any tube at all.......puma knives from germany used to do this and would have a leather thong attached to the sheath that they would push thru the hole and loop over the top of the handle for added...

sawblade steel will harden and temper great.......it is not hard enough on its own to grind a knife from without hardening and tempering......you can heat the edge with an oxy/acet torch to non magnetic and quench in oil and a file will skate great....temper at 375.....will actually show a good...

how do you finish the flats on your blades........i usually finish the flats to a polish before i grind the bevels.....i find it is much easier

just grind the edge back to the bottom of the chip and see what it looks like......looks to me like you may be able to save it....you have nothing to lose..........i see at least a filet or a boning knife there.......post a pic of the result

like john said.....less round.....the lines on your handle are not crisp

jesse......up here in canada we do this all the time,......you get 2 great bark handle slabs of very dense antler material and a block of "moose ivory" out of the centre........great durable handle material

was this all about murray carter bashing? if it wasn't about stock removal vs forged to shape what the hell was it?

I have 2 ameribrade grinders with the rotary platen.......they work great.....must run at fairly slow speed for best results

I have used #30 for 1/8.......#10 for 3/16.......and letter F for 1/4 for many years and like randy says no fit issues what so ever.......on some of the exotic woods the pins are still a little tight.......i would check out your drill press cause you shouldn't be having fit issues......also use...

I shared a booth at the blade show with chris and some of the other louisana blade smiths in the mid 80,s and it was such a wonderful time......as a canadian i loved their cajun accent......he made me a damascus bowie knife with an oosic handle on a trade and it is a treasured part of my...

I agree......norax and trizacts are the way to go........they last way longer......i always use norton blaze orange up to 120 grit......when they start to get dull grindng bevels i use them to grind profiles using pressure to refracture the ceramic and get a lot more use out of them

don,t hide jig in attic.......get rid of it alltogether......you need to freehand asap.......period

I find when rough grinding with ceramic belts the plunge is pretty sharp.......as the grit gets finer use a lighter backed finishing belt and they flex quite well and produce a great radius...as ed says don't be shy about how much you track it over.....on thicker blades as much as 1/4 inch is...

I do a lot of polished blades and handles and i agree the buffer deserves a lot of respect but if when using the buffer you have the same focus as finish grinding a hollow ground blade you should not be nervous using it.....buffing just has a different set of rules

Chris.......there is a video on youtube of Tom Mcginnis grindning a knife on the burr king BBA20 grinder at the Blade Show........check it out

a few years ago i went to the las vegas show n janurary........there were a few south african makers there with these gorgeous hollow ground chef style knives with wide blades full hollow.......when i asked about it they told me they used large diameter contact wheels......now burr king and...

sean by the looks of that anvil $900 is not a very good buy .......it looks to me in the picture that besides the edges being bad that the surface appears to be a thin plate of steel on top of a cast body......also the raised letters on the name are a cast giveaway.......i dont think i have...

I use stainless pins a lot .......the larger the pin the hotter they get......1/8 pins are not so bad.....1/4 pins like to get hot.......just go slow with a new sharp belt and keep switching from one pin to the next so as not to get them too hot.....the first rough grind is the worst but as soon...

thanks for the input guys........i havent up to this point had a problem with scale so i never had to soak in anything........It is too bad that these saw blades are scaling so bad cause a friend of mine gave me 2 full skids of brand new saw blades wrapped in cardboard .......approx 3000# of...

Hey guys......I just finished forging 3 billets of layer damascus from 24 in circular saw blade material <L6?> and 15n20.......everything welded up fine but I ended up with extremely hard forge scale on the surface of the billets.......I am wondering what is causing this as I was fluxing entire...