

Once you are done the profile, cut the bevels with a coarse file. You can finish the profile with a file and get it accurate to your pattern lines. That way you're holding on to the grinder, not the steel. Some guys clamp the steel in a vise and use a disc grinder too. Just go slow, keep dipping and of course wear some work gloves so you can handle the hot piece. To profile my first blades I used some 18 tooth-per-inch blades and a bench grinder with a 'coarse' stone. Get bi-metal blades, DeWalt ones are fairly good. Knife Patterns V and Knife Patterns VI pages.Īdvertisement: Are you looking to build up a 2 x 72" belt grinder for making knives?Ĭhris, 440C is pretty tough to work and I'd expect to go through a couple of hacksaw blades, depending on the thickness of material you are working with.
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I try to make them in different sizes so one should be a close fit to your piece of steel.Īre FREE to use. You can transfer them to wood, polycarbonate or steel to make a pattern. Feel free to add your own variations, shrink, stretch, pencil over the curves etc. These are not to be considered precise, but rather a starting point for your knife project. In an effort to contribute to the knife-maker community at large, I'd like to share some profiles that I have made.

Having looked around the web for decent starting points for making knives, I found a lack of free printable knife patterns, templates or any knife profiles in PDF or other suitable format and have had mixed results.
