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Making chip-carving knives
I'm just making a couple of chip-carving knives. Any advice on
grinding and sharpening them ? What sort of angle is good ? Any advice on what sort of temper for chip carving knives ? They're made from a couple of snippets of old chainsaw bar, roughed out with plasma and an angle grinder, then hardened and oil quenched. They're untempered at present, measured at about 70 Rc. -- Inbreeding - nature's way of always giving you enough fingers to count your cousins |
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I'm just making a couple of chip-carving knives. Any advice on
grinding and sharpening them ? What sort of angle is good ? Any advice on what sort of temper for chip carving knives ? Sorry, don't know nuthin about any of that. :/ Guessing tho I'd figure it to be a totally individual thing. The carver's strength, the wood and a whole list of other things that are easier to picture than type. Also guessing, too thin of a blade would be an easy catagory to run into. They're made from a couple of snippets of old chainsaw bar, roughed out with plasma and an angle grinder, then hardened and oil quenched. They're untempered at present, measured at about 70 Rc. ~70hrc? Along the work-hardened edge? Have you spark tested them? Are they simply carbon cased medium carbon steel? Alvin in AZ |
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Guessing tho I'd figure it to be a totally individual thing. The carver's strength, the wood and a whole list of other things that are easier to picture than type. I have a really good set of professional quality JAHenckles- either five or six shapes, I haven't used them in a while. The stock is thin; probably 1/16th or so- long, tapering grinds with very little bevel at all. They are distally tapered from the hilt, very hard, and are either stub-slab, or stub tang. I have both the 'maple' handles and the composition- prefer the maple. They're short enough in the blade that I haven't had any fear of getting enough leverage to snap one- they dull slowly and sharpen slowly g Chas |
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:34:02 -0700, "Chas"
wrote: wrote Guessing tho I'd figure it to be a totally individual thing. The carver's strength, the wood and a whole list of other things that are easier to picture than type. I have a really good set of professional quality JAHenckles- either five or six shapes, I haven't used them in a while. The stock is thin; probably 1/16th or so- long, tapering grinds with very little bevel at all. They are distally tapered from the hilt, very hard, and are either stub-slab, or stub tang. I have both the 'maple' handles and the composition- prefer the maple. They're short enough in the blade that I haven't had any fear of getting enough leverage to snap one- they dull slowly and sharpen slowly g Chas Henckels. ?? brianWE Learning. If I hadn't been proven wrong so often, I wouldn't be as smart as I am, now. |
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"brian w edginton" wrote
I have a really good set of professional quality JAHenckles- either five or six shapes, I haven't used them in a while. Henckels. ?? Yeah; so are all my small chisels- one time I had a serious institutional discount at an art supply store. I bought the whole set of everything they had available. That was just before I found out I was never going to carve wood worth a damn. Found out the same thing with engraving. But you don't know till you buy the tools and try. Chas |
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That was just before I found out I was never going to carve wood worth a
damn. What does that mean ? Steve Yorkshire |
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Put up the question on rec.knives for lots of help
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In rec.knives Paul W. Ross wrote:
Put up the question on rec.knives for lots of help Always wanted to make one from HSS, but need something to copy. The shape that gets used and resharpened the most is what I have in mind. No idea what that blade looks like tho. :/ Then there's the thickness measurements etc. Alvin in AZ |
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That was just before I found out I was never going to carve wood
worth a damn. What does that mean ? Steve Yorkshire Came over here to see what was going on and saw this question for Chas he don't read r.c.c so he won't see it... we can also talk bad about him and he won't see that either! What he was trying to say was he paid big bucks for a bunch of nice tools and carving knives and then found out he "wasn't a wood carver". Turns out he's a "leather carver" instead. Alvin in AZ |
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Can you give me the newsgroup for rec:knives? Thank you------George
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