Thread: Wedge pic and scales

I started doing that on knives back in 1982 when I was a full time knife maker. I took some to a knife show in Canton Ohio and sold out. Until then my knives were not selling that fast. I have been a knife maker for many years but did not, and still do not own a proper belt grinder. Cant afford one, so my blade grind was always a flat grind. I was not able to do a hollow grind. The jeweling made the blades look great. It is a little harder to do on a hollow grind since the end brush does not want to seat flat on the blade. I love the look. It serves the purpose on rifle bolts of keeping oil on the surface of the round bolt. The oil holds on to the almost microscopic swirls. Mack

Can't wait to see how the blade turn out, should be very nice.
Can you post a pic of the Dremel end brush you use to make those high speed turning circles please.

Do you start near the edge or the spine?

Here is one of my knife done that way (not by be).

Thanks

Where you start is up to you, but I do not want to go all the way to the edge, so I start near the edge to control the line. Here is a pic of the end brushes. They have to be the wire brushes. I use the steel ones. Haven't tried the brass ones but I tried the bristle ones and they don't work.
I simply scrape some of my polishing compound into a small container and add oil for the slury.

Neat, I had a '78 Trans Am with the fish eye dashboard that looked like that.

Jeweling is a lot of fun but the hard part is getting the circles to overlap all the same and the next row overlaping the previous and keeping the line straight. It helps if you have one of those cross slide vises to keep the lines straight. Myself, I just hold it by hand because I don't have one.

You still make it up to Canton? Here's the Eastwood engine turning kit...sorta like a 'metallic chalk' that goes into a drill to be used. I used it once to do a custom aluminum dash cluster cutout for a full sized Cherokee Chief, (Jeep). Some people make jigs for their drill presses to use them ...I didn't.. The smallest diameter at eastwood is only 1/2 inch, so I like your idea more and more.
Engine Turning Kit 1/2" Diameter

Thanks for showing this. Personally, i like the look restricted to the tang, but i agree that in this case it's done a great job disguising the pitting.
I have a feeling that if i were to try, mine would look a little, ummm.....freehand!

Thanks for all the complments.
Wedge,
I used to live in Ohio and so a trip to Canton was easy, but now I live in
Florida.

Very neat looking! Have you tried to restrict the swirl by rubber banding the end of the bristles of the brush? Brownell's sells a kit like that. I have also heard of folks doing this with polishing compound and a pencil held in a drill. The eraser is what does it.

Originally Posted by EMC45

Very neat looking! Have you tried to restrict the swirl by rubber banding the end of the bristles of the brush? Brownell's sells a kit like that. I have also heard of folks doing this with polishing compound and a pencil held in a drill. The eraser is what does it.

Actually that is the way I did the first one. Went through three pencils with it. The eraser wears down fast. That is why I went looking for another way.
The bristles do spread out but that is what I like about it.