Rough Grinding

Rough Grinding

First I went over the blades with a 4.5″ grinder with a hard wheel to get rid of the forge scale, then a flap disk.

After that it was time for the trusty 1×30″ grinder.

It felt a bit like cheating to grind the tip in further refine the bevels.

The top knife is the Bowie, and the bottom is a Seax that was forged the next day out of the second blank, not quite as large as the Bowie, but still not small.

With the grinding complete, I’ll be off to working with files to further refine the blades.