Planer blade knife

From another newbie to Rusty-Gunn- I was given a series of planer blades to make little carvers from- personal suggestions for you if I might- go to Aaron Gough's site (he's on the forums and his site is searchable) and look at the flat grinding jig- it may save you a lot of effort to have a jig that applies a lot of your work to the task at hand.

You are going to use a lot of belts- and the hardened planer blades will flick off the grit from coarse belts pretty quick unless you bevel the edge you are grinding first... If you have a scrapyard or recycle station for metals near you- go visit and ask about getting them to ID the metal with an XRF gun (if they have it)... It will open a WORLD of data to know the steel you are working with. I visited a yard local to me when I started (and then re-started, and re-started again...) and have built a fairly decent relationship with them for identifying metals (Hint- take coffee and go on a day they are not so busy).

If you can anneal it- it will be much more forgiving and easier to work (Problem is hardening it again if youre on budget).
Kerri
 
Frank... I wasn't aware there were many types of D2. The ones I am using are from
Infinity Cutting Tools, HHS-025 item.
Anyhoo... It ought to do for a first time. Thanks for the continued help.
 
silverforgestudio said:
From another newbie to Rusty-Gunn- I was given a series of planer blades to make little carvers from- personal suggestions for you if I might- go to Aaron Gough's site (he's on the forums and his site is searchable) and look at the flat grinding jig- it may save you a lot of effort to have a jig that applies a lot of your work to the task at hand.

You are going to use a lot of belts- and the hardened planer blades will flick off the grit from coarse belts pretty quick unless you bevel the edge you are grinding first... If you have a scrapyard or recycle station for metals near you- go visit and ask about getting them to ID the metal with an XRF gun (if they have it)... It will open a WORLD of data to know the steel you are working with. I visited a yard local to me when I started (and then re-started, and re-started again...) and have built a fairly decent relationship with them for identifying metals (Hint- take coffee and go on a day they are not so busy).

If you can anneal it- it will be much more forgiving and easier to work (Problem is hardening it again if youre on budget).
Kerri
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Thank you. I've seen one video from him making a knife for a soldier. Well, same last name anyway.
I enjoyed that video. And many others the past week.
I did use more then a few belts on this blade, but the belt sander is all I have. It will be slow, but it will get the job done. Thank you for the help.

Thank you for responding.
 
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