Hunter Copelin

Should have just posted his ad, but he only wants $50 and that’s a price I don’t think I would mind to put down for just some simple and small work! Thank you all for your input! You guys are great!

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!