Friday and Saturday was not the best of days with the grinder, ruined the holey tang and the big blade blanks, seemed like I lost my touch with the grinder, not that it was that great to begin with but two weeks ago I thought I turned a corner with it, so to speak.

Headed into the shop early this morning and spent all day drawing, cutting out and grinding blanks. With a short interlude mid afternoon to installed a 8 inch electric fan and ran power supply to it for the 2 hp grinder motor. It was getting a little hot with the long run times grinding out the blanks, hopefully it will help out especially with summer coming on.

Not sure if I found my touch again, or Sunday is a better grinding day or what but I managed to grind out three decent blanks. Still not 100% but I am getting the plunge lines to match up better, the edge to be even all the way down the blade and the tip centered, at least much better than recently attempted blanks.

I drilled the tang holes after I took the picture, hence the center punch marks and they need heat treat, tempering and finishing still but the hard part is done. Much much happier tonight than I was the last two nights. Learned a few things this weekend that should help with the next set of blanks. Even though at times knife building makes me want to throw things across the room, I do enjoy it and really have a good time doing it, well most days

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