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    Making knives

    Followed by a Dremel tool.
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    Making knives

    I continued the shaping of the bevels using an ordinary bench grinder, taking care not to overheat the metal and cooling frequently in water.
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    Making knives

    Then I tempered in the domestic oven at 200 deg. C four one hour.
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    Making knives

    I cleaned off the scale with a wire brush wheel and abrasive paper.
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    Making knives

    They emerged covered with black scale.
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    Making knives

    When they were so hot that a magnet would not stick to them (i.e. the Curie point had been reached), I quenched them in cooking oil, lowering vertically to reduce the risk of distortion occurring.
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    Making knives

    The story continues. I hardened the knives by heating them to red heat in a small barbecue encouraged with a hot air gun.
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    Making knives

    The recent thread "knife making" discusses bandsaws for metal cutting and also mentions linishers. No doubt these machines would be very useful but might be considered rather costly for an occasional knife maker to obtain. This thread will be about how I made a pair of knives without using a...
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    Knife making

    I have an Inca bandsaw but I believe it runs too fast for metal cutting. I make knives using a hacksaw, files, a drill press, a bench grinder and a Dremel tool. I'll make a separate thread to show my method if this would be of interest.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    A Japanese-style toolbox.
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    Yorkshire pattern plane adjusting hammer

    Thanks - I'll try that.
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    Yorkshire pattern plane adjusting hammer

    Thanks. Yes, it is a standard 15 mm Yorkshire solder ring fitting, as frequently used in domestic plumbing - hence the little joke in the name I have given it. I have given several of these hammers to Yorkshiremen and they seem to like them.
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    Yorkshire pattern plane adjusting hammer

    The brass and boxwood parts each extend 15 mm into the T-piece; the handle goes almost all the way in, so there is very little void space. The hammer weighs 4 3/4 oz. (135 gm).
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    Yorkshire pattern plane adjusting hammer

    Thanks - it is padauk.
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    Yorkshire pattern plane adjusting hammer

    You could pay over £800 for a plane adjusting hammer ..... or you could make your own for almost nowt :)
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    Making an iron for a moulding plane

    Mike, I didn't count the hours - it was gift and an interesting challenge. Maybe not as many as might be imagined - I work quite quickly with hacksaw and file :)
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    A pigtail and a carver's screw

    I decided to make a “pigtail” to fit the unused end of the motor shaft of a bench mounted disc sander in order to mount polishing mops on it. It was mainly a matter of straightforward turning and boring, the only real challenge being cutting a thread on the tapered end. I did this by “hand...
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    Making an iron for a moulding plane

    Yes, I used ground flat stock. I didn't need to make any adjustments to the wedge so I believe that the original iron was not tapered. I have not tried to make a tapered iron so far - the only way I have thought of would be to use a surface grinder machine (which I do not have).
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    Making an iron for a moulding plane

    It is done when it is hot enough for a magnet not to stick to it. I test using a rare earth magnet attached to a thin steel rod.
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    Making an iron for a moulding plane

    Yes, it can work very well. The hot air gun really gets it going. I prefer to use real charcoal rather than the briquettes as I feel it burns hotter (I have no scientific evidence for this). Here is a photo of a small barbeque being used to heat treat drawknife irons.
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