u/E1nMensch

Hey everyone.

I finished my second knife 🥳. First of all. I know that the Handle is still to thick. I'll work on that on the next one.

But I need your help. The heel of my knives just don't get really pointy and crisp and idk what I am doing wrong. Am I grinding to fast on low grits? Also, when finishing, this time even when I did a little hand sanding in the End, the Tip looses its shape. Idk what I am doing wrong there.

Lastly the taper. I just can't get a clean full flat grind. It always ends up a little convex which makes it really had for me to get a nice even finish, cause the faces go in all different directions. I really try to lock in my wrists etc. but I just can't really get it to work.

I do freehand grinding cause I really wanna learn it. So a Jig is not really a solution (just personal preference)

Any tips and feedback are very welcomed :D

Yesterday I finally finished my first Knife ever. For the first finished try I am really proud. I just need to sharpen it and then its finished (couldn't do it yesterday cause the oil on the handle had to dry)

I am very happy with the blade shape. But I really need to work out how to remove those nasty grind marks in the blade I also talked about in an older post.

The Handle looks super nice in my Opinion but for the next one I really need to get it way narrower on the front. It doesn't feel bad in the hand but it could be better and look more elegant.

Question about the handle. I inlayed copper and it happened what shouldn't happen. The epoxy melted. I didn't knew how to cool it down in between the grinds. I don't have a mist cooling system and idk if its good to get the untreated wood all wet. I tried a wet towel cause I didn't wanna dunk the wood in water. Any other tips instead of just waiting for a while?