MEMBER ITEMS FOR SALE
Custom Knives | Other Knives | General Items
-------------------------------------------
New Posts | New PhotosAll Photos



Go Back   The Knife Network Forums : Knife Making Discussions > Custom Knife Discussion Boards > Knife Making Discussions > The Newbies Arena

The Newbies Arena Are you new to knife making? Here is all the help you will need.

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #1  
Old 09-04-2007, 12:15 AM
Smitty Smitty is offline
Enthusiast
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: SoCal
Posts: 52
hollow grind

I want to share my very first hollow grind with you guys. I have been a member for several years and still consider myself a novice. I can flat grind well enough to get by and people seem to like my knives. But I could never do a hollow grind. About a year ago I got an 8" Jet from John at True Grit. Still couldn't learn to hollow grind. So I sort of accepted the fact that I might have to be satisfied with flat grind blades.
This evening I was out in my shop and had profiled and drilled a piece of Brad Vice's Alabama damascus. As I ground the flats I realized that the billet was too thick to get a satisfactorily thin flat grind on - at least in my mind. I will never know what possesed me but after I had the flat ground I moved to the 8" jet wheel which had a 60 grit belt on it and laid the knife billet against the wheel just as I had been reading about for so long and started a hollow grind. I went slow and took light passes and here is the result. It's not a show stopper but it is the first piece of steel I tried to hollow grind. Didn't know where to post this. And since I am still a newbie after all these years decided it should go here. I want to thank everyone who has written tutorials and discussed hollow grinding. All your tutorial and discussion sort of came together in my head and I had a halfassed succeeded. Thanks again. I am going to try to post pics. You can see where I took some 220 grit paper and started removing the belt marks and my version of hollow grind isn't as deep as I would like but maybe that will improve with time. Thanks again.
Reply With Quote
 

Tags
blade, knife, knives


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 12:11 AM.




KNIFENETWORK.COM
Copyright © 2000
? CKK Industries, Inc. ? All Rights Reserved
Powered by ...

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
The Knife Network : All Rights Reserved