Originally Posted by 1234567
One more thing that I would like to see is pictures of you making the flat grind.

Even after all my years of making knives, I still have never learned to flat grind.

From what I see in the pictures, you flat grind really well.


I don�t have any pics of me flat grinding at the moment but I can describe how I learned. When forging you already make most of the flat ground bevel with the hammer, so on the grinder you are just truing it up and grinding to your final blade thickness behind the edge. For flat stock you first scribe a centerline down what will be the edge.
Next you grind a starting bevel from the edge to the scribed line at about a 45 degree angle.
Now you put that small bevel against the platen but put pressure on the spine side of the bevel, not the edge side. This effectively walks the bevel down toward the spine. As the bevel gets larger it is even easier to put the pressure where you want to control the back edge.
Stop when you have climbed the bevel as much toward the spine as you wish.


As to flat grinding very well, I still spend my share of time chasing grind lines around and fixing mistakes.