Manufacturing Knife Handles

I liked this John Grimsmo video too as it shows the potential of small manufacturing runs for hobbyists who want to run a small business. There’s room for suggestions by a professional machinist on improvements, but John gets the job done. He’s even using a probe to zero his fixture at this stage:

Time lapse of making knife handles (scales)…

It always bothers me to see John putting cutters in that drill chuck, but if you watched his “Knifemaking Tuesdays” videos, you’ll have seen he is in the process of moving to ER collet chucks.

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• A New John Grimsmo Knifemaking Video with some G-Wizard Tool Deflection Work « « CNCCookbook CNC Blog CNCCookbook CNC Blog 2012/02/12 at 12:15 pm

  [...] you’ve been reading our blog for very long, you’ll know we’re fans of John Grimsmo’s knifemaking videos.  In them he uses a little hobby mill to make custom parts for knives, which he sells to [...]

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