On a steep learning curve

[Laurie]

Hi Rob. Sent you a PM.


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[Boyan Silyavski]

Hi, welcome to the forum!

I am also a bit into the knifemaking. At the beginning i would say. At the moment have prototyped a nice belt grinder which i will start selling in near future, have finished the design of the 2 knife models i would be making and soon when i find time will finish the prototypes till the end. Meanwhile have found and refurbished a nice kiln /2kw 1200C/ ...

At least for me, i see the perfect workflow like that : shape laser or plasma cut-edge cleaning and finishing machining on mill using fixture- eventually beveling edge- heat treating-polish-grind edge - some other finishing stuff that is knife specific. But i will be making a non fold EDC knife inclining a bit towards pure survival or tactical. Having in mind that i use steel that does not need hammering. Otherwise i am always happy to hammer.

Meanwhile i have learned to make my Micarta and G10 at home and so on. I will use only 1 modern expensive stainless steel so that simplifies / or complicates/ things and workflow. Eventually maybe will start machining the blades, till i make myself a plasma cutter, for which i have almost all parts. But no time. Now i have a new DIY pump vacuum station and next thing will be learning to make 1x1m Micarta and especially carbon fibre plates. I know the howto, now will only have to learn it well in reality.

WOW a Haas! That's my dream... Part of my dream though is to go to factory and pay it in cash


While i design everything last years directly in 3d, the knifes i designed the old fashioned way sketch-cutout paper-cutout cardboard-cutout plastic prototypes on my cnc-3d prototypes on my cnc- milled cutout steel prototypes directly from the desired steel to check machinability - ...now i have to grind them on my new belt grinder and develop fixtures and so on..