okay here's a project I'm trying to in my mind I'm trying to figure out how to
do this this is my grinding jig and what I do is I pull tonight to this jig and
this bolt here adjusts the angle of the jig so when I put a knife on it if I
lean it further in it's a shallow bevel if I lean it further out it's a longer
bevel you know I can adjust it work i bevel the entire thing from spine to
blade edge or half way and it works good except for it hangs up its drags on this
well I don't actually use this I have another piece of metal this is just too
small and I clamp it down with a couple of clamps and it's all mostly bad on
this hangs up and I have polished that and I've done everything I can to make
it smooth I have this oil here that you know I spray this down and for two or
three classes it's okay and then it starts digging in again that's really it
affects how clean my grind lines are so let me show you what I'm working on
this is a nylon cutting board and it's a little too thin used by itself so what I
plan on doing is drilling 4 holes and bolting this down to that table and then
gluing this on the top of that and then my jig grinding this into a wedge and
attaching it to the bottom of my jig where it's got the same angle at all
times so that is a nice slick surface there if nothing else if I put this on I
think it'll make a huge difference with nothing else done to the jig but and I'm
gonna do that first and what I really need was some what I call nut panheads
there are machine screw heads they're you know conical here where here would
be the the bolt and here would be the head
and maybe a you know slotted screw in it but I don't have anything like that so
I'm either gonna wait and go to Ace Hardware or I'm gonna try to make some
of these conical shaped machine screws out of just some regular hex bolts I
don't know if it's a waste of time or not I
I'm waiting on Sandy to get back with me on this I want to do a liner on it this
is the spalted Oak I'm gonna use and I want her to decide whether she wants a
Purple Heart or the walnuts Purple Heart is sure that's a pretty what I haven't
used it yet I have used a lot of the walnut that's what's real nice too but
anyway this is a custom knife and custom means you choose your options and here's
my mosaic pan I haven't cut it yet I got to put the handles and and get a good
idea for how thick I'm gonna make the handles and then cut my pins so a little
bit that time today's Thursday I don't think I'm gonna be able to do
anything on that knife tomorrow I've got Kroger shopping Walmart shopping I got
to go way over to Shreveport to get our drugs a whole bunch of running around
Saturday I can work on it sunday is my day off Monday I got to be over in Texas
do some work so you know it's all over everybody who orders a knife knows that
I get these done as quickly as possible but I have to fit fit the knives in
around my life which is just the way I want it to be I don't want this to be a
job I it's a hobby and I just love making these knives and settling them
just helps me buy more sandpaper and steel
alright let me get back to thinking about this well here's what I got so far
those do not stick up too high so what I'm gonna do is these heads are almost a
half an inch so I'm gonna drill some 1/2 inch holes about an eighth of an inch
deep here you're here corresponding to this and then I'm going to prime this
not prime it but I'm going to soak it down with an alcohol and brother really
good and then hit this with some super glue and clamp it together and hope
it'll hold if not then I'll do it the right way and that is to buy a piece of
5/8 nylon it's about 75 bucks for the size I need and just go to the store and
buy the right screws okay let me let me get to work let me to drill these little
half inch holes out here and see if I can make it fit flush what I have here
is a spade bit that I ground the tip off
that's what it's supposed to look like and so far I kind of think it might work
now I might have to take my drummel with an end mill and you know clean that up
just a little bit but I think I got a real good start on this let me get the
rest of these done I got four more to do all right let's see if they match
yep okay when we find an end mill and bottom ease out a little bit and the
next step will be gluing and I don't have enough superglue so I'll have to
put that off till tomorrow to let me get these bottom down right here's an end
mill noise alert
yeah just a second I got an idea God why have enough floats my god I'm almost out
by golly that's gonna work alright you saw how it's done let me get the
rest of these cleaned up and we'll see if it's gonna fit all right let's see if
it fits
yep perfect
all right now I need superglue I'm gonna rough it up with some sandpaper both of
the mating surfaces I'm gonna clean it really good with some alcohol and then
I'm going to put a whole bunch of its CA glue it's the superglue type of stuff
and clamp it and we'll see we'll see so far so good a new clan since I do have
epoxy I'm going to drill small holes eight-inch actually completely through
this piece here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 I may go 12 I may go 6 and then 6 I'm
gonna drill holes completely through this and then I'm going to take my all
and start me some holes in the next piece and these are the screws and we'll
use fat fingers and they will not go all the way through
as long as they don't over torque
so between the screws and the epoxy I believe it'll work
let me get I'm gonna get this took apart and you're saying but Brad you won't
have access to the bulkheads well I know I'll be able to start the nut and I'll
get it on enough where I can hold on the end with a pair of vise grips and
tighten these nuts up all right let's get this party started
well I am a little slow and I bet some of y'all have already got this one
figured out ahead of me if I put these fan head bolts like this when I screw
them in they're still gonna stick out and when I put this those panheads are
going to hit the top of that so can't do that I can use these for the forward
outer ones away from the top of this so I've got these wood screws what I want
to do is countersink these holes they're very very short screw so I'm gonna have
to really countersink these uh at least an eighth of an inch but they'll be
below the surface of this and that's what counts so let me get a drill bit
that will work let me stay here since you're here let's just see
now the next size up next sighs little bit
yeah honey let me get to drilling and so you
see what it did here put a piece of tape on that drill bit and that's as deep as
I'm gonna drill this up to the edge of that tape and that I'll put me just
about perfect so far so good now let me get this on it come on come take two
hands yeah it's gonna take two hands you get the idea I'm gonna tighten this up
put the nuts and washers back on tighten it up not too tight but I'm gonna let it
sit I'm gonna clamp it on both ends and in the middle down to this and I'm just
gonna let it sit overnight see you tomorrow okay it's the next morning I
got up at 2:00 in the morning yesterday and for this morning I get up before
pretty much every morning but lordy it's hard to sleep full night
well this is it I'm gonna start pulling these clamps off and see if that
adhesive that epoxy held I hope it did let me let me get this part well it
looks good I got a little bit of adhesive squeezing out around the joints
so I know it made contact all right I'm gonna map this and then I'm going to
start thinking about how I'm going to make this work I still haven't figured
this out yet maybe I'll have to make a whole new jig I've been thinking
inside the box of how I'm gonna make this jig work on that I mean even if I
said nothing it still slides a lot a lot easier but maybe I need to think outside
the box maybe I think you need to think about a whole new type of jig may be
made just out of this that that is something yep maybe and maybe that's
something I need to consider okay I guess I really need to think about
temperature I don't know what this stuff is made out of I doubt that it's nylon
or Delrin because that stuff is pretty expensive and this was just you know $10
cutting board so I doubt it was the expensive stuff it's probably some
high-density polystyrene poly poly something or rather I think it's
probably plastic so therefore I got to worry about heat too hot and you know
these get pretty hot when you're grinding and it might melt it so let me
let me stop there let me get this put on and mounted and then I'm gonna start
thinking about this and uh today's Friday I don't spend all day over in the
big city and uh so today's a no knife Friday and of course I'm not going to be
here all day today's the day I'm going to get all my packages my jet belt
sander didn't show up yesterday it was supposed to again
I'm supposed to get a new one of these today I'm supposed to get the the box of
belts that I the right ones they sent me the wrong ones are supposed to get them
today and I won't be here and it might ring so let's get the day
started all right that half of the problem is
solved now I need to check it for square
and it is square you see the gap is the same let's see this one
I'm happy well I have eliminated the need to take
that on and off I'll tell you another alteration I made to this well to
actually the side covered I don't even have that anymore you take you you
change these belts so often that you see this tab here this ear on that side of
the table there was one here too and to change this belt you had to take the
table off so I put this on my bandsaw and I cut that ear off on that side so
now I can get the belt on and off without having to remove the table all
right that part is solved now I got to start
thinking on the the jig