[modeleng] Re: Filing, now O/T--Daggers & stuff
- From: "Keith Spriggs" <kdspriggs@xxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:14:22 -0500
Al, I use an air powered angle head die grinder for a lot of things like
that. I use a thin fiber glass reinforced blade. Also very good for roughing
out lathe tools especially formed tools.
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 9:05 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Filing, now O/T--Daggers & stuff
> TEL, I would do so except that I had already goofed by
> permanently fixing the cross guard on the blade. So
> now it's a major filing job! Sigh!!
>
> Al Messer
>
> --- Terry Lane <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Why not rough it out with your shaper Al, keep the
>> filing to a minimum?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Well, Keith, this would work, but as much material
>> as
>> > I have to hog off, it would be very, very slow
>> going.
>> >
>> > I mentioned in another reply that this job is the
>> > hilt/crossguard on a dagger I am making. Now,
>> > regardless of our views on politics and foreign
>> > affairs, I am sure that we all would agree that
>> > regardless of where the lads (and lassies) are
>> sent,
>> > we must support them, especially when they are our
>> own
>> > flesh and blood.
>> >
>> > Now, I have not smithed a knife of any sort for
>> over
>> > 30-35 years, but when one of my lads hands me a
>> > Solingen blade he has acquired and tells me that
>> he
>> > wants me to make him a "Battle blade" as he is
>> going
>> > back to Iraq by the end of the year and this time,
>> he
>> > will be leading a company into combat, what could
>> I
>> > say?
>> >
>> > The Scots lads have their "blades of last resort"
>> > tucked into the top of their stockings, and I have
>> no
>> > idea where he will carry this one as it has a
>> > double-edged blade 9-1/4" in length with an OA
>> length
>> > of 15", but I will bet my last Dollar that when he
>> and
>> > his men roll out of their Laager, it will be with
>> him.
>> >
>> > Sorry for the ramble.
>> >
>> >
>> > Al Messer
>> >
>> > --- Keith Spriggs <kdspriggs@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Al, The only way I have ever found is to wipe
>> the
>> > > file after each stroke. I
>> > > now do this automatically.
>> > > Keith
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > > To: "modeleng" <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:00 PM
>> > > Subject: [modeleng] Filing
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > Gentlemen! Is there a fool-proof way to keep
>> a
>> > > file
>> > > > from pining when filing mild Steel? It is the
>> > > > absolute pits to be almost finished a filing
>> job
>> > > and
>> > > > have the file to pick up a pin and gouge a
>> scratch
>> > > > that has to be worked out of the finished
>> surface.
>> > > >
>> > > > Al Messer, (94 degrees F. today)
>> > > >
>> > > >
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