March 27, 201115 yr Author Gene, thanks for letting me know. I have the Picasa links fixed. I had to add one to each knife. take care, kc
March 27, 201115 yr hey kevin! havn't seen you here in a while. i like the knives you made . leaving a little scales worked out pretty well , i also like the peen in the scale on the first one as well as the copper fittings. i never have real good luck making full tang knives , just cant get the scales to fit nicely to the tang without a whole lot of work, did you use apoxy to seal it all up? evrything looks to fit quite well. oh and your facebook link isnt working.
March 27, 201115 yr Author I could never get full-tang knives to work, either. Until, I got the new variable speed grinder from Riverside Machine. One of the facebook links shows it. The grinder is essentially a Bader clone, but with a lot of unique features that Al (who owns the shop) came up with. It is a wonderful machine, and getting it opened up a number of doors in terms of fit and finish (and pleasure). There are things I can do with it that I could only do by hand before. Yeah - I beat the heck out of the blade with a little ball peen hammer to drive the scale in, and to also give a small secondary bevel so that I could be assured that I would not accidentally grind all of the scale away when grinding the main bevel. kc
March 29, 201115 yr nice, i think thats my main problem as well lol, lack of decent equipment.an open sander/ grinder would help alot. is that a 2"x72" or something along those lines?
March 29, 201115 yr Author oh yeah - Riverside Machine - 2x72 bader clone with modifications, variable speed, 1.5 hp, DELIVERED for less than 2K. This is a serious grinder. Totally Enclosed, Fan Cooled motor, NEMA whatever enclosed electronics.... You could hit this thing with a high pressure washer and not hurt the electrical components, and no dust can get to any of the workings. This is the same quality as a burr king or bader, and the only real difference between this and a kmg is that the supports for the tooling arm are cut from large billets of aluminum (3/4" thick aluminum, so don't even suggest that they might bend or work themselves apart over time). Its not like the grinder in a box kits, where everything is put together from square steel tubing. This thing is built very, very solidly. I can't directly compare to kmg's because I haven't used one. However, I am aware that they are quite good. This grinder is better than the Bader BIII and the Burr King knifemaker's grinders. And a LOT less expensive. as you can guess, I highly recommend Al's grinder (and his hydraulic press). kc
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