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I did mind free hand. Wasn't really all that hard. Just start off light, making sure you get the grooves straight. But thinking about it, wouldn't be all that hard to clamp a square onto the blade so why not.

lmao!

I dropped my knives off for HT at Peters Heat Treat in Meadville, PA. Living about an hour out, I decided to drop them off instead of ship them, as Brad showed me around the shop and I got to check out various processes performed daily. Let me just say, that if I had any doubts as to whether...

once you post picture up! :)

Yes I meant .030 - Thanks for the help... I'm sending them to Peters HT...thanks for the reply though!

After you get your knives back from HT, what are your steps? FYI I'm using O1. Do you just give it a sanding down to final finish then put an edge on it. Currently my edges are at .30" - is that the final thickness of where you put an edge on or do you take it down further. If so, what do...

looks great for the first one...gives me hope for myself when I get to that stage!

Thanks, much appreciated! I got all of the knives taken down to their finished bevels, edges to .30" and have the tips all shaped to where I'm happy. Just hit them with 120 last night to get them ready for heat treat. I have like 10 left to get all of the knicks out of. No pictures as there...

progress 2-19 here is my knife with a semi - done handle. not final clear coat or buffed etc, but a general idea of what it will look like. this is leopardwood that i had left from that bow i posted earlier. I wanted to make it match the bow. also, a pic of the filework for the best man's...

got some serious work done tonight typical example of how much easier things are with proper tools lol. i got some of my stuff in, namely a norzon blue belt for grinding bevels. busted out the ruff cuts in all of them, and got them all to proper thickness. i'm going to go back this next week...

got that grinder up and running, ordering some more belts today so I can get to grinding some more bevels. I have 3 done on the grinder... What is a good progression of belts to run before hand sanding?

great post!

went this weekend and picked up a different motor for the grinder. we got this grinder from my grandpa, it was your typical 4 projects to get something that you want for your initial project. we had to shovel about a truck bed of snow to get the doors open, move a bunch of sh!t around to get the...

thanks so much for the info...that's what is so great about this forum!

few updates. got hand sanding done on the profiles, have to do filework on top/ drill holes and grind the bevels and we'll be ready for heat treat. i'm moving along pretty well i think. also another pic of started filework on another knife

Hello all, I'm currently making some knives for my groomsman. How do you estimate how much leather you'll need? Also what weights / thickness do I need. Where do you get your leather from? I'll probably have some other questions but that is a start. Thanks

filework did some filework on my knife to see how hard some different patterns would be and approx. how long it would take. this is an older picture, it needed touched up in some of the spots but i forgot to take a new picture.

Ok I will be doing O1 and sending them to Peters HT

I have a few questions concerning the "best" way to do this: What should I do for drilling holes before heat treating. Do you guys drill them one size bigger? Drill them and redrill after heat treat with carbide or some other bit? As for putting on a bevel / "finished" edge, how much...

so i got all my profiles done on the bench grinder...been working on getting them squared up and smoothed out with the hand file... today i wanted to hand file the bevel on my knife. half an hour yielded poor results ahaha. slow but sure, i'm in no rush