I ordered a couple of GD's the other week and they arrived on Thursday so, as I took the afternoon off I decided to break out the grinding wheels and sanding drums and have a go at doctoring one of them. Here is the first picture of what is a WIP.
I need to take some more off the spine as it's interfering with the hone on the toe - didn't think of it earlier.
Photo isn't great but I've ground off the stabiliser and added a butchers notch (well it's supposed to be a barbers notch but I don't feel right giving it a proper name). The notch may soon turn in to a Spanish point.
Still waiting for my pins and acrylic to arrive in the post so I will only be rescaling next weekend.
For information the bevel is approx 17 degrees according to my roughish calculations - really surprised to be honest as I heard they were often a lot more - this was after I reduced the spine a little on my 600 stone. Had a quick go at honing it on the coti but didn't have enough time to get it shave worthy, wasn't far off though so I'm looking forward to finishing it and letting you know how it shaves - more pictures will follow when I progress a little further.
I need to take some more off the spine as it's interfering with the hone on the toe - didn't think of it earlier.
Photo isn't great but I've ground off the stabiliser and added a butchers notch (well it's supposed to be a barbers notch but I don't feel right giving it a proper name). The notch may soon turn in to a Spanish point.
Still waiting for my pins and acrylic to arrive in the post so I will only be rescaling next weekend.
For information the bevel is approx 17 degrees according to my roughish calculations - really surprised to be honest as I heard they were often a lot more - this was after I reduced the spine a little on my 600 stone. Had a quick go at honing it on the coti but didn't have enough time to get it shave worthy, wasn't far off though so I'm looking forward to finishing it and letting you know how it shaves - more pictures will follow when I progress a little further.