I got a chance to get to the grinder between lawn mowings this weekend. Here's my next two kitchen knives. They will be 8" blade, a tiny bit under 13" OAL. AEB-L 0.130" stock. I've got some 416SS and stabilized Amboyna burl lined up for the first one. Still deciding on the second one. Stay tuned here for more pics as I go. Dan
kitchen carvers sell extremely well, I have 4 on the go , 1 for a birthday and 3 for Christmas presents , some time to ponder the builds !!
Funny: One is for a guy who is giving it to his girlfriend as a gift. He wasn't 100% sure if he wanted it sharpened or not! D
Nice Dan. How do you find the AEB-L to work with? I got some a few weeks ago but haven't had time to make any thing from it yet.
I really like AEB-L. My new favourite steel. It doesn't seem to come in very thick pieces, but 1/8" is pretty common and there is zero mill scale on it so you get to keep the whole 1/8" Here are the twins. Two cups of coffee, four full sheets of sand paper and a 1/4 bottle of windex later. I still have to shape the handle area a little and drill the holes, but the bulk of the work is done on the blades. Dan
The twins are ready for the oven. But before I fire of the elements, I want to get these two clip-point brothers in as well. One's a 9" and one's a 7/12". Same basic shape. With my 'SBK' t-shirt on...I can do anything! Dan
Hahaha...does the shirt give you powers, I haven't tried one on yet...lol!!! That's going to be a great bunch of blades Dan I like the look of those clip points too
After some advice from Ray Rogers, I modified the area around the ricasso to ensure that the bolster doesn't interfere with the cutting edge and future sharpenings. New shape is like this: The bolster will come down about 3/4 of the way and leave the last 1/4 exposed. Dan
