escavader
Veteran Member
This is kind of a dumb looking thing,but it is how i do my knifes.I always would clamp my 9 inch grinder to the bench and hold them with a pair of vice grips,of course stopping after 10 seconds and dipping them in water.It worked pretty good,but i had trouble maintaining the original angle.So today i made a jig for my vise.I made sore the wheel was level,and i leveled the bar coming out of the vise.Ill tell ya, it worked slick.heres the funny part.I wore a thin pair of work gloves,and when i felt my finger tips getting warm,i would put the knife in my dish of water,and count to 5 /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gifI didnt overheat them,they actually came out pretty professional looking /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gifIt took a wee bit longer for this set i did today,one had a chunk missing,and i had to grind them both down to keep a balanced pair.Im thinking about changing my angle in the future.I dont like the angle that SALSCO,puts on their knifes,they chunk to easy.All i got to do is weld the right size shim in the part that goes in the vise.The knifes we use in the sawmills chippers are 30 degrees,im gonna try an old set and see if it feeds ok...thus more meat on the edge of the knife means less chunking out.
Well any way i thought some you chipper guys would bust your gut laughing at this primitive set up of mine /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif,what better to do on a cold saturday morning
ALAN
Well any way i thought some you chipper guys would bust your gut laughing at this primitive set up of mine /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif,what better to do on a cold saturday morning
ALAN
