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Methods of Work Recycling saw blades into knives Top view of knife Rivet If one of your old circular-saw blades has seen better days, you may want to use it to try your hand at knife-making. Most sawblades are made of excellent high-carbon steel and are about the right thickness for a beefy camping knife or a custom-fitted woodcarving tool. First, cut the blade into manageable pieces with an abrasive cut-off wheel. Then anneal the knife blanks using charcoal in a barbeque-play a hair dryer on the coals if you need more heat. Heat the blanks until they glow red (as seen in dim light), then allow them to cool very slowly in the fire as the charcoal burns itself out. Grind the annealed blank to shape and drill holes through the tang for the rivets that will attach the handle's "scales." Taper the blade's thickness from heel to point, and bevel the cutting edge with a belt sander, a file, or even sandpaper wrapped around a stick. <strong>No</strong>w you're ready to harden the blade FWW with the barbeque forge. Heat it cherry red, then plunge it into a pail of water. Next, polish the blade with sandpaper, and reheat it in a 5500 kitchen oven for about twenty minutes, until the surface turns bronze, verging on purple. When the color is right, you can quench the blade in water or just let it air-cool. (For more about color and tempering, see #4, pp. 50-52.) Finally, attach the hardwood scales to the tang with epoxy glue and rivets. You can make your own rivets with heavy brazing rod or copper ground wire. This is not only a good use for old sawblades, but also a good use for those small pieces of fine hardwood that you just couldn't throw away: they make beautiful handles. -Jim Stuart, Covina, Calif Block sander from sanding belt Round ends of wooden block. With the wedge-tightened block shown here, you can use small sanding belts as block sanders. The tight belt makes for better sanding action, and because cloth sanding belts are of a better quality than abrasive paper, the blocks last a long time. You can shape the end profiles for inside sanding, too. -Robert ]. Harrigan, Cincinnati, Ohio 8 edited and drawn by Jim Richey An Center flOders-three variations on a theme old organ-builder friend showed me this handy homemade guide for center-drilling holes in the edges of boards to be doweled and jig edge-glued. The device consists of five sticks of hardwood screwed together in the configuration shown. The sticks should pivot so that the device collapses like a parallelogram. For the drill guide, fit the center strip with a bolt Ys in. larger than the bit size. Then, using a drill press for Huening's dowel accuracy, drill a pilot hole through the bolt using a bit one number larger than the bit you intend to use for doweling. To use, first align the edges of the boards and mark off the dowel locations with a square. To center the dowels, set the device to straddle each board's edge and squeeze the parallelogram shut. Then slide the device to each mark, and drill. -John Huening, Seffner, Fla. Here's a self-centering jig for boring drawer-pull holes. The pivoting sticks should be made long enough to span your widest drawer. The center plate may be fitted with drill-bit guide bushings or just small holes for marking with an awl. -].B. Small, Newville, Pa. This old-time gadget is handy for center-scribing boards. Install dowel pegs at the ends of the device and drill a hole in the center for a pencil point. -Larry Green, Bethel, Conn. Flip-up router fence Align extension board with center of cut. Fold extension aside to rout. When routing grooves, some people draw a line on the work where the groove will be, then calculate where to clamp the fence. Others draw the line where the fence will be, instead of marking the location of the groove. Both methods have obvious drawbacks. But if you make a router fence that has a hinged extension, you can mark the center of the actual groove on the work, line up the extension with the mark, then flip it out of the way to rout the groove. Make the fence
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