Me three! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Oh and can someone provide links to a good grinder?

I think it looks great.

Some large knives won't even heat up that much on a belt grinder. I keep a container of water handy and dunk the blade as needed to keep it cool. Keep the blade moving and pay close attention. Some of the small stainless knives will need to be cooled between every pass. Do serious stock removal with the coarser grits. They don't heat up the blade as fast. You are moving the blade faster with those, too, because they remove a lot of steel in a hurry. My grinder only has one speed, so I have adapted my methods to that. Otherwise, I'd slow the belt speed a little.

That looks great Unsub! You have little feet.

the knives are on a table...
his feet are on the ground... if you think the knives are on the ground and look at them next to the knife handle.. they look freaking TINY!
lol

UNsub,

MONSTER JOB!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" />

That looks like a completely different blade! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

Incredible job dude! That is just smokin! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I can't believe that is the same blade,I am very impressed! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />
That was just the thing to do to spruce up that sad looking user. Now it looks Elite!

Congrats on a job that is without flaw! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Peace.

Thanks guys and especially POP. My foot does look funny. It is a size 10 though.

It was the thickest knife I ever worked with and I was shocked at how slow it heated up compared to the thin ATS-34 I worked with last.

I am a perfectionist though and there is always more I want to do.

I was just kidding, That does look great it takes alot of marbles to do that to an expensive knife but now you have your own custom to carry that you can be proud of. It's kinda like putting your signature on it. That ergo handle looks pretty comfy for prolonged use too. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I think you did a beautiful job, Unsub. That's pretty knife, now.

Thanks guys ,I am really stoked about how well this is turning out. I spent last nights TV time also cleaning up the spine which because it isn't flat has to be done by hand.

I have done some amateur knifemaking last winter so I have a bit of experience with the grinder and dremel.

I can't stress enough how useful grinder belts cut into coin sized round disks and mounted in the dremel are. 40 and 80 grit disks can remove tons of material fast and I am currently using some 150 grit to take all the scratches out of the spine.

You can even put 600 to 1000 grit sandpaper over a disk and put a wicked polish on stuff. If you do long smooth strokes the full length of something it is nice and even.

The fact the SH-E I got was flat ground made things a LOT easier.

It seems a lot better balanced but that has to be my imagination. It felt like I removed a lot of metal to get the thing perfectly flat but it was probably only a few hundreds of an inch.

The points still need some grinding and I made a mess of the thumb bump on the spine as well as the finish on one side of the pommel but they can be polished out.

When I see just how much more work an LE model takes than a CG I am gobsmacked by how cheap they are. The DFLE was only about 25$ more than the CG and their is a mile of polishing. Scrapyard does do a very simple polishing job where it is up and down rather than the length of the blade. I was considering going all out with a full length hybrid polish but it looks pretty good as is and that would be a ridiculous amount of hand sanding and dremeling. At least 100 hours to do a first rate job.

My Lambert custom which is for some reason the perfect companion blade for the SH-E has a nifty polish job where the flat part of the blade is finely polished lengthwise while the edge bevel and the top false edge bevel are not as finely polished going up and down.

Everyone should own at least 1 first rate custom just to see what one man can do with a grinder. The Lambert Whar I have is not only perfectly fitted together with zero tolerance but it's made with all materials that are really difficult to work with. Carbon fibre ,titanium ,Titanuim damascus and S30V.

Here it is with that same table(no foot this time) and a HairyCarry and Chinook3.

Looks cool,nice job...

Well I did some more today on the SH-E. I have the spine and pommel polished to a nice almost mirror polish and am working hard on the flats. I decided to go all out and do a full lengthwise hybrid polish alternating directions each successive grit until hopefully I get close to the amazing job Ban does.

The edge is a freakin razor already from simply removing some from the flat of the asymmetrical side.

INFI is SO nice to work with and takes a wonderful easy polish.