How To Make A Knife Grinding Jig
Once you have the design and in particular the grind geometric cross section on paper - start to work your way down and draw straight lines how you want to get there with the grinding jig.
How to make a knife grinding jig. In general you want to start from the edge with the steepest grinding angle and work your way towards the spine of the knife in subsequent steps. 38 - 16 x 2 SS Socket Cap Screw - 1pk. - BRILLIANT DIY A sharp knife is a safe knife and sometimes its as important as figuring out a safe way to sharpen.
Using a jig like this will help knife makers especially newbies get a nice even bevel on both sides of their blades. Making a knife grinding jig the easy way thats easy to use and get consistent grinds every-time on both sides of the knife I used 50mm aluminium angle as t. These are the parts I bought for the project.
Most say to hold your elbows in tight against your body support the blade edge up so you can visualize the railroad track scribed center lines. Sandergrinderfile to clean up edges optional 3D printer for knob. Angle grinder or hack saw.
In this video Graz of Graz Makes shows you how how he fashioned a bevel grinder for knife making using basic hardware store hardware and some aluminum stock. Or knife making in general Ive seen a lot of guys using jigs like the pic I posted. Metal angle bracket sturdy - 1x.
It is made from 2 14. The roller that makes my hollow edge only has a 4-inch diameter which is a little small for single edgesbut its the best Ive got right now. I was recently looking for a knife grinding jig so that I didnt have to free hand it if I didnt want to but they were all in the 70 to 150 range and there was no way I was going to pay that when I knew I could make one myself.
Second photo of the knife blank fitted in the slot. Saw to cut Plexiglas. Freehand grinding is a skill only learned by trial and error.