I have one on my instagram account. But I will see if I can upload it here.

@@thebladedbroad9654….. have tried a search, but can’t seem to find it…..

No thanks.

Ya don’t always need/want to use gloves on a belt sander, especially when you’re working with a heat treated knife, which may or may not be the case here. Either way, nothing wrong with the technique here and the end result is phenomenal.

​@@thebladedbroad9654 Yeah... I like my fingers on the hand, also. 8-/ Awesome pieces, by the way. That file work is lovely. Vine and thorn is one of my favorites. 👍👍

I’m sorry you’re so sensitive.

Sure is

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Yes, it’s a HouseMade Industrial Gen 4 Revolution grinder. Highly recommend!

Hey there! Thanks for thinking of me but I don’t give out my personal information/number. And not to worry on the anvil - I have one on order. Have a blessed week!

@@thebladedbroad9654 I totally understand that, can't be too careful, lots o' weirdos out there, I probably wouldn't give me my number either!! 🤣😂 Glad to hear you are getting the anvil. I'm getting really excited about blacksmithing, my Dad set me up with everything so let me know if you need anything, maybe you could make me a knife one day. 👍 Take care, and keep up the awesome work! 😊

I have a few of them on my Instagram. I will see if I can repost one here!

​@@thebladedbroad9654would love to see it. Earned a sub. Thanks for listening!

Wedges from 30° to 12° usually. The harder the stuff the smaller the angle can be and the better it cuts! :D

@@sicstar the sharpest thing I can think of is a scalpel does anything rival that? I'm assuming durability is sacrificed for sharpness considering you aren't doing rough work with a scalpel but it makes me wonder how a larger scalpel would fare

@@IraessRanza Laser sharpened scalpels are up there but the sharpest blades are actually made from obsidian. Like our ancestors made em by clapping rocks together. It is supposed to be 10 to 20 times sharper then a scalpel or razorblade, i didn't test that so far myself but i can confirm obsidian cuts like mad, fingers included... And yes usually the harder the material get's the less tough it is, it becomes way more brittle. Tho modern metallurgy have brought us some insane materials like tungsten carbide, which can cut steel like butter or for your "everyday" knife stuff like powder metallurigc steels like M390 or CPM-S90V. Also one can get a huge variety of carbon or stainless steels that are able to give a good, solid and long lasting blade depending on the application you need. Stainless is quite decent for everyday use, cheap, doesn't rust and easy to grind back into shape but the edge retention is rather bad and specialized stuff like M390 has insane edge retention and quite good overall "stats" but is a pain to get into shape and really, really expensive compared to "lower grade" steel. You can even make a really sharp knive out of epoxy'd together sheets of paper but it won't keep an edge for long and you will only cut soft things with it.

@@sicstar I had known that obsidian had been used in blades and arrowheads by the Native Americans but I had no idea it's sharpness was so extreme, and Making a nice weapon out of M390 seems like it could be a nice life goal, metalworking seems like such an art of balance considering how much ratios of hard and soft metals matter it's crazy to think how many secrets past blacksmiths had that they may or may not have even understood, I remember hearing that they eventually figured it out but that the production of Damascus steel was massive unknown for a long time despite the abundance of old blades found I still don't understand how people back then could've forged the bonds need for it I think they we nanotubes or something to that effect, so much to learn considering your obsidian makes me wonder how much different crystals could be utilized

@@IraessRanza Yeah the beginnings must have been the most interesting or the parts we don't really have records for now. Or when some lucky guy finds a meteor coming down somewhere and notices "Yo, thats some hefty metal right there! Let's see if i can bring that into some shape". And if you are interested in how damascus came to be etc. check into metallic grain structures and sizes. If you have "8000 times folded" damascus you basically have evenly distributed the material trough the blade. Same for the different kinds of steel, be it ferritic, martensitic or austenitic. They all are a tad different because of the heat they are treated at and for the alloys they contain. Highly interesting topit too.