How To Make A Knife Grinding Jig
And the blades end up devilishly sharp.
How to make a knife grinding jig. Knife Bevel Grinding Jig by mr95gst - This is a knife bevel grinding jig that I made for my 2x72 belt grinder. Most say to hold your elbows in tight against your body support the blade edge up so you can visualize the railroad track scribed center lines. I then started sea.
Angle grinder or hack saw. I cut a slot in the middle of a piece of 50x50x5mm aluminium angle corresponding to the size of the bar knife holder and drilled and tapped a M8 hole for the angle grind adjustment. 38 - 16 x 716 T-Nuts - 2pk.
I was recently looking for a knife grinding jig so that I didnt have to free hand it if I didnt want to but they were all in the 70 to 150 range and there was no way I was going to pay that when I knew I could make one myself. Or knife making in general Ive seen a lot of guys using jigs like the pic I posted. - BRILLIANT DIY A sharp knife is a safe knife and sometimes its as important as figuring out a safe way to sharpen.
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Once you have the design and in particular the grind geometric cross section on paper - start to work your way down and draw straight lines how you want to get there with the grinding jig. Currently in the traditional shop craft community making spoons and knives seems to be all the rage. These are the parts I bought for the project.
In this video Graz of Graz Makes shows you how how he fashioned a bevel grinder for knife making using basic hardware store hardware and some aluminum stock. Everbilt 45 adjustable spring hinge - 1x. This jig could also work for with a bench grinder with a hard wheel.
