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I've always wanted to start making knives and though that it would be a good retirement hobbie. I got to thinking that I will be wasting a lot of years waiting to start so I made a file jig based on a video by Aaron Gough. I started out with a small kiridashi styled knife.



I couldn't see myself doing that forever so I borrower a 1x30 grinder from a buddy of mine.



After watching some videos I made a forge.





I did some file work on the knives prior to heat treating them and they didn't turn out too bad.





I was going for a kind of industrial look to them and it's OK.



I think I got bitten by some kind of bug so I made a little work bench, bought a 2x72 grinder, drill and variable speed grinder to use for buffing.



My VFD isn't dust proof so I put it in a box.



My first knife. It turned out OK. My second one didn't. No pics of the second one.



I'm kind of stalled at the moment because I'm in the process of cobbling together a dust filtration system.
 
welcome to KD.
You said the second knife didn't get a picture taken. There will be lot's of those but that is part of the learning curve.

Good setup so far.
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Thanks. I got my dust collector up and running today. I'm no carpenter so it's not very square but it seems to work.

How I ran the inlet and outlet.



The open part is towards the wall of the pail.



How it looks.

 
dust collectors in knife shops tend to explode from metal sparks mixing with wood (or other) dust.
You might consider using it only for metal or only for non-metal (plastic,micarta, wood, etc) but not both.
 
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