My On The Bench Today Thread

[Stuart Mitchell]

The only people incapable of making mistakes are dead.
It's a sign of life - and maybe the need of a whiteboard with stuff written on it.

I am more of a notebook man; it is all in there, and I carry it between work and home every day. I just got it into my head that the job called for a 120, so I cracked on, and I realised just as I tightened the second bolt. The adhesive you see there is a CA one, so those scales were not coming off without destroying something

I used to have a whiteboard; it is still there, in fact. I do get a few visitors to the workshop, though, and wasn't keen on all and sundry being able to read what I was on with.

90 blanks should be back from HT next week, and I'll make another knife.

This one was on the bench too, orange/black Suretouch over neon green GITD, this one is also a 120, but this one should be

 

[Dave Scott]

This today, P120 with blue/black Suretouch over amethyst TurboGlow liners…


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… followed by a quick call to the client, it should have been a P90

I’m sure someone will be keen to take it off you Stuart!

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

This today, P120 with blue/black Suretouch over amethyst TurboGlow liners…


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… followed by a quick call to the client, it should have been a P90

These amethyst liners are a bit nice...

 

[Dazb1967]

Stunning as usual

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

One of these days (if I remember, which I won’t), I’m going to weigh a batch of blades pre and post the grinding process.

Assorted blades from kitchen to filleting and gralloching, various thicknesses of 2, 3 and 4mm stock, all bevels ground and some tangs.

I do wonder how much steel has actually been ground away.


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I still haven't remembered to weigh any before and after.

But, I have a Secare for sale elsewhere on the forum that has a full flat grind.

The full flat on a Secare is quite the grind, perfectly flat, just hitting the spine at the plunge end and creating a distal taper all the way to the tip. At the tip, before being whet, the spine/back of the blade measures less than 1mm across, that is, from 5mm at the plunge end, a lot of steel is ground away.







The knife, finished, weighs 209g.

Then I thought, I wonder what a blank weighs? I get these lasered, purely so I can get some decent-sized weight-reducing cut-outs in the tang; at 5mm stock, they would be too heavy in hand otherwise.

To my absolute surprise, the blank weighs more than the finished knife, weighing in at 215g!





I dunno why, maybe just me, I was amazed though.