Grinding demo

I thought it might be interesting to post a vid of rough grinding a 250 by 54 Gyuto in 52100. This is post-heat treat grinding, so wet and carefully.
This represents about 90 minutes of grinding a 3.5 mm blank down to rough knife dimensions.
Next steps will be blade geometry grinding (S Grind) and take it to a pretty finished level for hand sanding.

If this is interesting to you I might create one of these for each step of the knife so you see in about 10 minutes the days of work it takes to create one of these. ?

 

Wow that was great Mark! Thanks for posting it.

 

Thanks Jim. I've never watched myself grind before. It's informative for me. LOL.
You can even see the belts stretch by watching to top tracking wheel rise every time I change belts. That is interesting.
I think I went through 5 40 grit belts, but I hate grinding with dull belts. I use them each again for profiling new blades, but man they add up. My poor belt rack is loaded!

 

Interesting stuff, Mark!
I would definitely watch some more videos of the process!