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Hollow Ground Bevels. Hollow ground bevels are done on a large contact wheel instead of a flat platen. Hollow grinds can be done freehand or with a variety of jigs. The diameter of the hollow grind is determined by the size of the contact wheel. Historically, the most popular jigs are pressure jigs. They track perpendicular to the grinders belt.

A Simple Hollow Grinding Jig. This is a jig I threw together from things in my shop that makes it easy to create hollow-ground knife bevels. I would have made an instructable out of it, but I don't have any pictures of the process and it's pretty easy to see how the thing goes together any way. The metal widget with the springs is there just to ...

A full hollow grind goes from the edge all the way up to the spine. The Black Widow Caper pictured above is almost a full hollow grind; you can see that a bit of the stock on the spine is still left unground. The hollow grind is popular for both production and handmade knives.

Hollow grinding tips and techniques. October 25, 2021. Bob Van Dyke heads to the grinder to demonstrate how he adds a hollow grind to his blades and how he keeps from burning the blade in the process.

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A hollow grind will self-jig the blade so that it is supported on the sharpening medium. A hollow grind automatically created a microbevel, which reduces the area to hone, making sharpening faster. Flat grinds are predominantly for those that (a) do not use a grinder at all, or (b) are intending to use a honing guide.

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Hand sanding a hollow grind. Thread starter Hengelo_77; Start date Jul 21, 2021; Hengelo_77. Basic Member. Joined Mar 2, 2006 Messages 5,339. Jul 21, 2021 #1 I'm practising hollow grinding and I actualy like it. (11,5"wheel, 25% speed) I also like hand sanded blades, so I'll be needing a sanding block in the same diameter as my wheel is.

When I had a Tormek sharpener, all my stuff was hollow ground. I don't have it anymore, so now all my stuff is flat ground on a hand stone. About the only thing that might be slightly different is how the chip rolls off the blade while using the chisel. A hollow grind will cause more of a curl in the chip, where the flat grind will create a ...

What is a Hollow Grind? The grind is essentially the heart of a blade. In other words, it refers to the manner in which a blade is cut to ready it for sharpening and polishing. The grind is the functioning part of your knife for most of its jobs and determines how well the knife will cut and even retain sharpness.

674. Oct 18, 2015. #3. Take a piece of scrap wood and grind the radius into it with your wheel. Spray glue it and apply sandpaper. Take a rough shaped piece of g10 or micarta and hand sand it with that negative until it fits. Go up in grit and you'll get a perfectly radiused hand sanding tool. T.

Hello elderly lady, would you happen to have a bench grinder so I can teach you to hollow grind knives?) - never mind. This works for bench as well as belt grinders with the right kind of work rest. For starting a hollow grind, set the metal to the wheel with the …

First attempt at a freehand hollow grind fresh off the belt sander. Thanks for all the advice! Any tips on quenching and tempering high carbon file steel? Close. Vote. ... Pattern reveal 👀 on this stainless go Mai👍 still have to hand sand ect etch but the this is off a trizac belt just to see what can be expected 👍 ...

In theory, if you grind the tool's edge, you may have a situation in which the back must be hammered out to fill in the hollow at the edge. But with normal usage, as long as you hone the backs when you hone the bevel, you should be fine and never have to tap out the hollow.

After making the hollow grind, lap the back face of the chisel to make it perfectly flat, as shown (photo). You only need to do this on the bottom two inches. Some chisel work won't require a flat back, but other tasks, such as mortising …

The hollow grind is a very common grind for knife blades. Hollow-ground blades offer excellent cutting properties and are more flexible than blades with a different type of grind. They are mainly used to for hunting and outdoor knives as well as kitchen knives. We also hollow-grind our straight razors. Hollow-ground blades are ground on both sides.

I work mostly in the flat grind camp but, a recent commission has me looking at several feet of hollow ground blade that I wish to sand by hand. With a flat grind it is easy to alternate the direction of the scratches on the steel so the scratches from the previous grit show up well. With the hollow grind it is not so easy.

Hollow Grinding itself is more of a extreme sharp for straight razors and fine work but the edge is not strong compared to Concave. ... He uses a small hand held angle grind of the 50 dollar variety and clamps down the blade and just keeps it cool with water. It took him a few years to teach himself to do this but he is a very patient person.

Double-bevel grind. What it is: A double-bevel grind, also known as a "compound grind," can, in overall profile, incorporate virtually any other grind -- flat, hollow, convex -- with the addition of a secondary V-bevel to produce a cutting edge. What it's good for: Whittling, woodworking, food preparation, general use. How to sharpen it: As with a V-bevel, a double …

Hollow Ground (HG) Hollow faced grind used for cutting melamine and other challenging materials. Most often used on vertical panel saws. Here we show three types. Hollow ground is most commonly the circular shape but not always. In this case 'hollow ground' refers to the grind on the top of the tip but the face can also be ground in one of ...

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I hollow grind because the wheel on my grinder is round. An edge is never put to the grinder unless it has some damage to the edge that honing won't fix, or the profile needs changing. I always use microbevels, whether with a guide, or by hand.

When hollow grinding, it used to bug me that I couldn't change direction between grits, like I do when hand sanding flats. One day, it ocurred to me I could just leave the grinder turned off and 'hand sand' from point to tip by pushing the blade back and forth across the wheel.

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To keep this from happening, a hone line is ground in the hollow along the edge. The hone line is the thin flat line that you see on the hollow side of the edge that runs from the tip of the scissor to the back. This gives the scissor a smooth and quiet run. If we did not grind on the hone line, the scissor would run hard and loud.

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Convex Grind – (AKA "axe grind" or "Hamaguir") – As the name suggests, this is the opposite of the hollow grind. Instead of straight edges like the flat grind or edges that bow inward, these ones actually curve outward in a convex fashion, resembling the likes of a clamshell. The idea is to keep as much metal behind the edge as ...

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Hollow grind. Response To: Re: Couple of thoughts about PMV-11 () Wiley Horne. Yes, indeed. No problem hollow-grinding. I also use CBN, and on a low-speed Tormek, without issue. You will find it straightforward on your set-up. The problem arises, as Bruce says, if …

Hey all, I want to start freehand sharpening with a hollow grind to register against, but I don't currently have a grinder. I definitely want a hand crank grinder and there are a ton of them available for cheap on ebay, but I'm not sure what size to get. There's a variety of sizes (3 inch, 4 inch, 5 inch, and what looks like a 6 inch).

The cambered grinding wheel only makes contact in a small area, so you're sweeping the blade back and forth across that high spot on the grinding wheel. I guess in theory, if the back is flat and the hollow grind is inconsistent along the width, it won't matter because a 1000 grit stone will even out all the peaks and valleys on the working ...

I prefer flat grinding for hunting knives, even though hollow grinding is more popular. My opinion is that hollow grinding is necessary when using 1/4-inch-thick stock. The way I do things isn't necessarily what anyone else should do. I won't defend my ideas or methods except to say, "That's just the way I do it." Profiling of the Blade

A hollow ground blade. A hollow ground blade is a knife blade that has been ground down to create a characteristic concave, beveled edge along the cutting edge of the knife. This effect is accomplished by starting the grind below the midpoint of the knife, creating a small wedge with concave sides that is extremely sharp and very easy to care for.

Flat grind / Sabre / Scandi. What it is: A flat grind is a single, symmetric V-bevel — the blade tapers from a particular height on the blade and ends at the cutting edge. A flat grind that begins at the blade's spine is called a "full flat grind"; a "saber grind" begins its bevel lower on the blade, and a Scandinavian (or "Scandi") grind begins lower still.