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Curves are sexy add some curves to the whole shape. They look like Olive Oyl when they should look like Sophia Vergara. The top one needs more of a tip, you can either drop the spine (drop point) -perfered- or remove some curve from the belly. The second one is a little better but I can see...

One other thing posting prices helps with is that every potential customer knows what you are getting for a particular knife. One of the worst things you can do is charge differently for the same knife. Lets say you made 5 identical knives and sold them all at different prices and the 2 folks...

I would grind then to the point of ready to roll the edge to sharpen then hand sand up to at least 400 grit. SS blades will be wrapped in foil so decarb will be all but non-existant and hand sanding out 220 and lower belt marks on SS will not be fun.

Unless you need one ASAP and can pick one of those up real cheap I would pass on all 3 of them. The only one I would even consider is 3. 1 looks like a Ferriers anvil that is very well used and the other 2 are beat all to crap. Ideally you want at least a section of top to be flat and a spot...

Come on Brad don't leave us hanging.....

I want to play!

Since there are no pin holes I assume this hasn't been heat treated!? I don't see anything wrong with it for this stage in the process. I would take it up to 220 and drill your pin holes before heat treat. Other than that the final grind should clean up the uneven line across the blade. I...

With a $4000 budget get a good grinder and if you are wanting to use anything other than 1080/1084 and do your own heat treating get a heat treating oven. That leaves you with around $1000 left for belts, steel, handle material, and other misc. things.

Hard to tell from that pic but it looks like it has a machine finish. Hiding the sharpening bevel will be a little harder on those. You should sharpen every knife you make and test it. I do this before putting a handle on them so if I have to reheat treat I don't sacrafice a set of scales or...

Nice knife! Looks like it ready to be put to use!

Slow is better for the finer grits. You will probably not like those swirls as a finish and it will be extremely hard to get them even if you do like it. I will use a 220 going fairly slow to flatten the blade after heat treating and before hand sanding. The disc is vertical but the motor...

Not sure why you want to use a pizza pan. To keep dust out of the motor? You should be using a TEFC motor and dust won't be a factor. I think the pizza pan will just get in your way. Use an air hose to clear off the shaft and motor every once in a while and you will be just fine.

Bummer! But it is an opportunity to install a 1 phase motor on it. I have no idea what brand other than "import" the vise is. I got it from Wholesale Tool the same time I bought the mill and a scad of things to go with it. If I had it to do over I might not do it differently. I can usually...

Awesome score! The tooling will cost almost as much as the machine. The only thing I can suggest is to get the best vise you can get. I bought a cheaper knock off vise for my small mill and it wants to raise the work piece a little when clamping it down unlike a Kurt.

I think you need to fix the bend before going any farther or you will have a hard time getting the grind lines to match. The best way is to heat up the blade to just when you start seeing a dark red color then it will straighten it up using 3 pieces of pipe or just clamping it in a vise until...

That right there is why I only use the belt grinder to roll the edge to 0 then go to bench stones. I doubt any of the folks I sell knives to will have a bench grinder and most will use a stone or something similar to sharpen it so I try to make it easy on them to get the hair popping edge back...

Great job Josh! Are you going to conver it to a belt system?

Nice job Ricky! The first time I saw the guard I was like what the? But now that its done I like it....a lot! Looks great!

That is an awesome second knife. If I had to pick one thing I didn't like it would be offset pins. To me they don't do the knife justice. You did a really nice job fitting them and avoiding halos. But if you want to do off set pins just make sure they are symetrical across the handle.

You are making handmade knives if you are taking raw materials and removing everything that isn't a knife. And is sounds like that is exactly what you are doing. You know how knife makers think...no pics it didn't happen. Post up some pics of your knives and fill out your profile and there...