OK I was in the shop working today, and put 3 Damascus blades in the tempering oven for there 3 90min runs. I was thinking about scandi ground knives and how many I have been seeing lately. I took out my lansky sharpener to hand sharpen a knife, stress relief as I have several motorised ways of sharpening knives. I was thinking you could make a scandi ground knife with it if you had two weeks...lol then it hit me so I made a really large lansky sharpener and made a couple blanks with it in just a matter of a few minutes and some elbow grease.
materials: a flat length of scrap steel I used a piece of C iron. A piece of all thread and two nuts, a washer, hose clamps, hand file, and a round rod. Improvise and use what you have laying around.
All I did that you cant see from the pictures is used a nut on top and bottom of all thread to set the desired angle and hold it firm. And ground the cutting edges from sides of the file so I could get good clean plunge cuts without removing material from the plung cut and ricasso area while filing.
using the Jig: clamp blank onto flat bar (pic 4, notice the flat bar also acts as the plunge cut guide, I removed the cutting edges from the side of the file). 2 place file on blank, set angle with protractor pic 5. tighten the nuts and file away. Repeat on other side of Jig and blank. Remember to mark the edge of the blank in your usual way, I use a drill bit the same thickness as the blank. I made these at 20 degrees as to match the Lansky system what I will do finial sharpening once blanks are hand sanded, heat treated, and knife completed.
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do not laugh at my welding skills, as I have none...lol. Just welded a washer to top of the all thread.
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placed a nut on top and bottom of the flat bar.
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after setting the desired angle just file away, this is not to bad as you can really get on it using the steel rod as a handle and using the entire cutting face of the file. Notice the flat bar sets the plunge cut, makes a nice sharp cut just like I like.
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setting the angle, I checked the angle a few times during the process, but it never changed, it was surprisingly stable and accurate, I think because its so simple.
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blanks will need cleaned up, as usual, I may parkerize these blades then polish the entire cutting edge that could look sweet. Any way you can see the scandi ground edge looks good to me. The File can be replaced with a diamond file after heat treat to finish edge, I will probably use the diamond sharpener in my Lansky, we will see.
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