![]() ![]() If keeping a constant angle is difficult for you, use a sharpening jig. You can make knives sharper by using a smaller angle, but that makes the edge more vulnerable. ![]() Grind the knife at an approximately 20 degree angle on both sides (lay it flat on the stone and tilt it up by 20 degrees), that should be fine for most kitchen knives. A piece of wet factory glass ( float glass) with a piece of fine waterproof sandpaper on it also works very well. An artificial stone (bonded abrasive) is the cheapest and works fine. Only if the knives are really blunt (say, once a year) you need to get a dual coarse/fine sharpening stone. Since these are almost always stainless steel, they respond very well to a honing steel treatment. Japanese style blades, and filet knives for processing game. Specific items like a lightweight hatchet/tomahawk with a hammer head, Immediately if he charged the friends who have put in orders for I suspect the setup would have paid for itself nearly Note: I asked David how much his startup costs were and he estimates itĬost him $20 to make the forge, $13 for tools he didn't already have,Īnd $38 to build the anvil everything else was supplies he already had The next goal is to forge weld someĬables into billets to make knives, and maybe even a sword out of. I've made knives, tomahawks and hatchets, chisels,įlint strikers, and other items out of the scrap steel found along the You're worried about that you can use a hand bellows just like in theġ800s. Use my forge is the little electricity to run the dryer/blower, and if The only thing I'm actually paying for now Oven, it's usually set in a handle, I make a leather sheath,Īnd it's done. That item (higher polish for knife blades, less for tomahawks, tools,Īnd other items) and temper it in an oven for around an hour. Start to shape, draw out, and work the metal to my desiredĭoes take many heatings and repeated sessions on the anvil, but in theĮnd the product is then quenched in used motor oil to coolĬlean all of the oil off the item, polish it to the smoothness I want On the anvil, then using my 3# Cross Peen or my 2# ball peen hammers, I Regular spikes and the high carbon spikes (you can tell by the HC on Most of the time it's railroad spikes but every so oftenĪre other random pieces of steel. They can be obtained pretty cheap from a flea market or garageĪlso use alot of old railroad steel found near local tracks by my Hand files that are now dull and have little value to most people, so Going, I simply turn my hair dryer on, get the fire and coals nice and Used for driving holes through red hot metal. The track, I was able to get a smooth flat surface with a hole to be By welding the plate steel and the tubing Track, but a 1" thick 6x15" piece of plate steel and a 2" square tubing Visited our local scrapyard and bought not only a 24" piece of railroad My charcoal made, the next step was to make an anvil. ![]()
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