A couple of weeks back I decided that it would be more efficient if I had a grinding jig for each of the grinds that I do instead if adjusting the one jig every time. The different widths and thicknesses of steel require a little different angle oof grind and it means time and inconvenience to continually have to change angles. Over the last couple of days I have been preping the two parts of the jig and putting them together so today was going to be when they were dialed in.
The blades I got done ready for heat treating are on the left, two safari knives (1095) and a light hunter (1084) and some new ones on the right with a fillet knife on top that has only half the grind done with the edge left at 50 thou as the 1/8 stainless is soft as butter in its annealed state and bends badly when grinding. Under it the fishing knife (also in 1/8 stainless) is finish ground with the edge down to about 20 thou while the pair of steak knives are only profiled and will be ground after heat treating as they are thin stock at .075 .
I think that another 2 jigs and I will be able to do all my blades by choosing the apropriate jig and the best thing is that I can now do some of the clean up after heat treating on the grinder with the 450 and 600 grit ceramic belts which will mean a great deal less hand sanding.
