Hey y’all, first time poster, and very new member!
I’m a young blacksmith in training and have received all of my knowledge from 1 book and this website! Haha
anyway, so I decided to make a knife. First project ever. Used a railroad spike (doesn’t have enough carbon to harden into a serious knife yadda yadda) but, when I finished my rough shape and hammered my bevel I went to go ahead and finish the bevel shape with an angle grinder and a 36 grit floppy disk. Turns out, when someone who has only ground metal enough times to count on one hand tries to make a perfectly symmetrical grind on two sides of a single edged knife, it’s basically impossible to make my lines nice and straight and even.
With allllll of that being said, here is my question.
There is a fella in town selling this sander on craigslist nice and cheap. Can I get by and learn with this thing? Or is it just going to be too slow of a process to learn on?
thanks y’all, any help is greatly appreciated!
