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Norton is the old stand by and what I use now. The King you can get at almost any wood working store and they are inexpensive, smaller ,but do a fine job. The Chosera is the champ for the guy that is...

WOW. Disaster and all you still got it done. And then um wow again...you set the bevel on 325 DMT? You might want to slurry that 4k and slowly dilute to clear water. I would look into getting a 1k...

I won't be messing around. As I understand it the faster it goes in the better. I have a fire extinguisher handy when I light a cigarette :<0)


"not much more will get done" ?? It's your...

I kind of fell off the map/got busy...How is it going ? I just resolved to use peanut oil but 4 bucks is tempting. As long as I don't have discharge a 35 dollar fire extinguisher.

It's got some character now :<0) Like you say you can always grind later. You'll know when you put it to the hones. I may be totally wrong but I feel it's safer to grind as much as you can before...

Looking good ! I would do some thinking on the stabilizer. Looks like it's pretty thick and after you grind the blade face down it's going to look thicker. Your not going to have much room in the...

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I am just guessing from my experience of making scales and watching how they work. Glen got me to thinking more about that in one of his posts about wedges. On the other end is the tang and I believe...

You don't have any razors to measure ? ? ?

7/8 Goldedge Duck spine .235 --- behind stab, .210--half way to pivot .182 near pivot --.172 tip of tail .090

7/6 W&B spine .210 -- behind stab.,...

1/8 is too thin. There is a formula around here for thickness to width. As I recall it is somewhere around 15 to 19 degrees angle on the bevel. You can do the math or search out the formula. ( In...

Looks like the right place to me :<0) Welcome and good luck. There are lots of threads to read on the processes used and my eyes are still bleeding from reading myself.