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Posted: 2/24/2024 6:03:23 PM EDT
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Following the knife tech discussion closely. Thank you STJ.
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Posted: 2/24/2024 6:05:54 PM EDT
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Does anyone here live in Seattle? I have a super class person Who would like to know there was a like mind nearby. If you don't want to post here please IM.
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Posted: 2/25/2024 11:44:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone: Does anyone here live in Seattle? I have a super class person Who would like to know there was a like mind nearby. If you don't want to post here please IM. There is a knife maker/instructor just 20 minutes north of Seattle. Bronks Never been there and do not know the guy. So I can't vouch. |
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Posted: 3/4/2024 11:55:29 AM EDT
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Much much thanks shark man. Found a few.
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Posted: 3/9/2024 11:38:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: stimpsonjcat]
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 Grinding metal off the bottom and top ends of this will frighten the smiths here. DC will have a reaction to the idea that the blade is an arc...and has to be ground as such. Free hand. |
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Posted: 3/10/2024 2:50:59 AM EDT
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Did you use electricity to stick the edge extension on or did you forget weld it?
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Posted: 3/10/2024 11:58:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DFARM: Did you use electricity to stick the edge extension on or did you forget weld it? I cheated and TIG'd that joint. I just don't have a forge that can swallow a piece that big deep enough to get a forge-weld to where it needed to be on this piece. |
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Posted: 4/6/2024 5:53:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/7/2024 6:39:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stimpsonjcat: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/b5or2th498q8o6y8h20lo/nbjsetched1.jpg?rlkey=5ve7zr44zlgqodmj0x36r6nyf&raw=1 That'll open some Amazon boxes. Lol |
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Posted: 4/8/2024 7:34:51 AM EDT
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Went to mount my new anvil and split the stump my old one sat on. Now I've gotta find a new stump.
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Posted: 4/11/2024 5:49:17 PM EDT
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Gotta love having friends with fancy lasers...
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Posted: 4/12/2024 12:11:47 PM EDT
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Stj I still want to see your best estimate maybe a diagram of how you think Randall grind their hollow number 14 blades.
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Posted: 4/13/2024 10:41:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone: Stj I still want to see your best estimate maybe a diagram of how you think Randall grind their hollow number 14 blades. got a pic? |
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Posted: 4/13/2024 12:39:06 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/13/2024 12:40:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/13/2024 1:42:05 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DFARM]
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I'm certainly not an expert but I do enjoy hollow grinding knives when I can.
It looks like it'd be pretty straightforward on that knife. The swedge on the spine would probably be the most difficult part of grinding that blade, IMO. If it's 3/16" or so thick, you could probably grind that with an 8 or 10 inch wheel. I just recently made this little guy. It's hollow ground from 3/32" 1095 on a 10" wheel.  Attached FileTo me, hollow grinds are easier to keep straight than flat grinds. The most difficult part is curving the grind up to meet the point. On your example, the point drops down to about the centerline of the blade, which would make it so the grind could stay pretty straight instead of having to grind the hollow back in from the tip. |
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Posted: 4/13/2024 6:37:23 PM EDT
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Got it done this morning.
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Posted: 4/13/2024 9:36:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/345159/image_jpg-3186722.JPG The bright part is flat? |
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Posted: 4/13/2024 9:39:30 PM EDT
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You men should know this.
My wife of 32 years left me March 25 of this year. It's just Jess and I now. |
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Posted: 4/13/2024 10:31:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stimpsonjcat: You men should know this. My wife of 32 years left me March 25 of this year. It's just Jess and I now. I'm sorry to hear that. That's a long time. |
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Posted: 4/14/2024 2:04:57 AM EDT
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Df my interest hollow grind comment by STJ now many years ago on the difficulty of the Randall grind, and the fact that Randall has never published any pictures of its grinding wheels shop, etc. and that is a cool little slicer.
STJ understood. Designated that is an awesome bird! |
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Posted: 4/14/2024 2:51:14 PM EDT
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Gotcha.
Again I'm not the most experienced knife maker and I haven't had the opportunity to handle a Randall knife so I could be missing something but I don't see anything in your pictures that seem too difficult or out of the ordinary with regard to the grinds. |
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Posted: 4/14/2024 6:49:09 PM EDT
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DF on the Randall grind I don't know enough to know what I don't know. I can say that on this pictured knife which dates to the 60s the grind is deeply graceful and somehow far more intricate than my more recent Randall 14s. I don't know how to take a picture, that would justify this statement . On all of my more contemporary 14s the grind is much more asymmetrical, crude angular, and less pleasing to the eye.
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Posted: 4/14/2024 8:09:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone: DF on the Randall grind I don't know enough to know what I don't know. I can say that on this pictured knife which dates to the 60s the grind is deeply graceful and somehow far more intricate than my more recent Randall 14s. I don't know how to take a picture, that would justify this statement . On all of my more contemporary 14s the grind is much more asymmetrical, crude angular, and less pleasing to the eye. Randall knives are an interesting topic to me. I personally don't understand the draw to them but I have a great amount of respect for the company's history and story though. Being production/factory made knives, the consistency and quality is going to be up to the individual craftsman and whatever QA processes and specifications they come up with. |
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Posted: 4/14/2024 9:08:59 PM EDT
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I love the Randall geometry.
You get a belly all the way out to the tip. But the drop makes it not a camp knife. The leftover flats just add strength. They're pretty like an I-beam. |
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Posted: 4/14/2024 9:57:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stimpsonjcat: I love the Randall geometry. You get a belly all the way out to the tip. But the drop makes it not a camp knife. The leftover flats just add strength. They're pretty like an I-beam. That's what I was thinking. The flats are full thickness for strengthand the hollow grind gets the edge thin enough to be useful instead of it being like an axe if it was flat ground to the same height. I like the look of some of the smaller hunting/skinning knives from Randall with the flat grind that starts low at the ricasso and ends up meeting the spine about halfway to the tip. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 9:32:44 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DCBourone]
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Stj//pretty like an I beam neat phrasing.
Df//big part of the attraction is Randall are still made by a bunch of craftsman sitting on benches with big wheels Spinning and big Arkansas stones, and we are supposed to imagine a Long grueling medieval apprenticeship of devoted artisans. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 10:58:16 PM EDT
[Last Edit: stimpsonjcat]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone: Stj//pretty like an I beam neat phrasing. Df//big part of the attraction is Randall are still made by a bunch of craftsman sitting on benches with big wheels Spinning and big Arkansas stones, and we are supposed to imagine a Long grueling medieval apprenticeship of devoted artisans. You are the owner of something that actually approximates that...no? Don't be so skittish...I might retire and have time to make your 'other' knife. Or...more likely...go die in an ocean somewhere. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 7:21:06 AM EDT
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 An anvil that does not rock. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:53:50 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:56:12 AM EDT
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Designated// // Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:27:01 AM EDT
[Last Edit: stimpsonjcat]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DesignatedMarksman: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/81267/20240423_175930-3196509.jpg An anvil that does not rock. Those holes are a long way from where I would want. ETA I mean...not as bad as I thought. 
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:33:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stimpsonjcat: Those holes are a long way from where I would want. ETA I mean...not as bad as I thought. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t64xogvjpbhsp3ndf48ox/anvil.jpg?rlkey=gulio7gnweoeh9jbckoaugqox&st=a4v58vsh&raw=1 |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 5:39:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DesignatedMarksman: Are you talking about the hardy and pritchel orientation? What would you change about it? Yes, I think they should be closer to the center of the anvil. But then when I looked at mine I was surprised how far back mine are. |
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