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nice tip! any pics?

nah man, sparks are good!

haha, well i was going to say something when you first posted that reply........ its all good, a creeper you aint :angel:

i have angle grinders, dont have metal cutting bandsaw at the moment.
i used to cut everything out with an angle grinder. i hate the sound and feel of it, but ill still use it a bit. drilling...

thanks man, plenty more progress pics to come.

hahaha! well that would be quite a set. these are 3 different designs, 3 of the mammoth choppers, 4 of my biggins and one odd ball that is supposed to turn into a french point somewhere along the way...

after marking center around the blade i rough ground the hollows and rough tapered the tang. for reference here is one of the blanks next to a 15/16 razor. :dropjaw: still a bit oversize so after...

i next focused on freeing the two mammoth choppers from one ed of the bar. i dont have a metal cutting bandsaw (at the moment) so i resorted to punching centers across the bar between groups of...

started with a big bar of 5/16" O1 Starrett Tool Steel. i ran over it real quick with 220 grit to knock off rust and then wiped down with denatured alcohol to give a clean surface for marking out. i...