The First D2 ckc 1.0

This is my one. Its doing well.

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Sports

Tags:

• small
• knife
• d2
• steel
• survival
• camping
• micarta

[gernaneering]

The finish looks just beautiful, lovely looking grind, sorry to hear that the new grinder has,nt off set the cost of belt usage as hoped. Would more frquent water dipping during the grinding help when using the more worn belts. Any idea of much more per D2 knife you will have to charge per knife model...... great hard work yet again, well done Kyley.

[knivesandstuff]

@gernaneering After HT its getting dipped all the time to keep it cool. Worn belts just risk burning out the edge too easily from friction. I'm guessing that D2 may have to add about $35 per knife. I will have a better idea after I make all the knives and assess correctly how many hours I put into them.

[treeboy113]

hey knivesandstuff im an amatur knife maker and im haveing trouble with the tips of knives because on my little belt sander it seems to just take the tip right off when im puting an edge on should i use a file or maybe a might higher grit belt? please reply

[knivesandstuff]

@TheBeebopper Seen them.. Go take a look at a KMG running at 7000SFPM.. it will grind a car in 1/2 in around 5 seconds.. mine is not running at high speed. That is a nice propaganda video.. but its not actually showing a start to finish on the grind. I can however visually see that its not going to be better than a modern grinder. cheaper to run sure.. not better.

[TheBeebopper]

@knivesandstuff Take a look at "A Sheffield knife" uploaded by pdprop and see how fast the removal of material is, he even gets a baulk of timber out to press the blade on the stone. Take a look at the (Wilkinson's) Dartmoor knife (aparently blades still available) or even the Israeli knife. There is no upgrade from those big stones, you're not going to put 1/4 ton of pressure on the blade with your belt grinder, but these men on the stones can. Quicker than a belt, without changing.

[knivesandstuff]

@TheBeebopper Well.. its not because they are working faster, saving time or making better knives.. :-P Its because they already had that stuff and dont want to spend money to upgrade.

[TheBeebopper]

@knivesandstuff You know there must be a reason why the knifemakers still use whetstones in Sheffield, the home of working blades. : b

[nehpetzlolz]

beautiful blade. sorry too hear they're eaten up the belts!

[knivesandstuff]

@TheBeebopper If I could keep it cool with water it would help I think, but the mess in my workroom would be horrendous. haha. The reality is that I'll just have to use Fresh belts on HT steel, and use the Worn belts on pre-HT steel.

[knivesandstuff]

@TheBeebopper I have cleaning blocks. They work more with woodworking. You have to remember that the steels are damn near as hard as the abrasives so its chopping all the teeth off the abrasive. I'm using the best belts you can get for this type of work.. its simply that Hardened Steel chews up belts fast. Most industries do almost all finishing work before heat-treat. Knifemaking is unique I think to be grinding large volumes of HT steel. lubricants wont work. the belts slipping is the prob.

[captjeff78]

great looking knife Kyley!... what no motocross t-shirt today! WTF did the comments finally get to you mate??? i am just kidding! looking good, keep it up! i really like what i see!!!!