Grinding Fixtures Started

My main task this evening was to get rolling on a pair of fixtures to do flat grinds on my Outdoor knives.

First things first, unwrapped the dimple die and cleaned it up. It will get a test drive tomorrow.

Like in woodworking, the boring part is cutting dimensions. Here I'm just making all the faces flat on this piece so that I can do the critical dimensions. The actual size of the block is unimportant. It just needs to be straight and square.

Making a pleasant little mess.Cutting a lip onto one face.

Each fixture is dimensioned, and has a step in the bottom. Tomorrow I will add screw holes to fix the blades and then cut the angles on the lower faces.