A hollow grind means metal is only removed at the secondary cutting edge, as well as at the spine to a lesser degree. As a hollow grind assumes the shape of the outer diameter of the grinding wheel that sharpened …

is a hollow-ground chisel with a line joining the cutting edge and the end of the bevel that makes an angle of 25 degrees with the backface. Grinding produces a coarse finish and honing gives a more polished surface. Because grinding is faster than honing, many workers grind a chisel like "B" having a primary bevel at 25° (or less) to the ...

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This is part 5 of a series on grinding: Part 1: Introduction + When To Grind. Part 2: The Technology of Grinding. Part 3: Grinding Wheel Chemistry and Nomenclature. Part 4: Dressing Your Grinding Wheel for Cool Running. Part 5: Grinding the Hollow. Part 6: Repairing a Damaged Edge Without Burning the Steel. In the last section, we prepared our ...

Pros: Best of both worlds regarding durability and keenness. Very quick and easy to maintain the edge: A flat-over-hollow grind has very little metal at the edge which needs to be apexed and polished to sharpen the knife. You can sharpen your sloyd knife in just a few passes on a finishing stone instead of having to go through the grits.

Some woodworkers prefer to put a hollow grind on the bevel of chisels and plane blades. It makes honing easier as there is less steel to remove and hone. It also gives you two points of reference during honing. Tom "Notice that at no time do my fingers leave my hand". Napie | May 01, 2007 05:22am | #4.

The Hollow Grind . To make a hollow grind, the blade blank is applied to the surface of a grinding wheel or a belt passing around a wheel, taking a concave scoop out of the blade. The depth of the hollow will depend on the …

A hollow grind is more present in knives with thin edges while a full flat can be used in heavy thick knives. Full flat blade grind can be applied in most knives including Kitchen knives, Every Day Carry, hunting knives and more. On the other hand a Hollow grind is more suitable for Skinner knives, small sized EDC and razor blades. A full flat ...

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Inspect the edge of the knife. Try stropping first. Choose your sharpening method, wheel, or stones. Sharpen the knife. Strop the knife. You follow a few different paths to sharpen a hollow grind knife, but some will require specialized tools to maintain the concave curvature of the bevel to the sharp edge.

I would add that the hollow grind will disappear after a couple of honings so you will end up with a flat surface anyway and the back edge can be rounded over as well to assist the cutting action. Hollow grinding is just a way of keeping the honing surface to a minimum width and only needs doing occasionally. Edited November 9, 2020 by Dennis J

With the hollow grind it is not so easy. How do those of you with more experience with hollow grinds approach this? ... (you need a brand new belt at finer grits when hollow grinding), sand horizontally at the same grit, and use a …

A hollow grind will self-jig the blade so that it is supported on the sharpening medium. A hollow grind automatically created a microbevel, which reduces the area to hone, making sharpening faster. Flat grinds are predominantly for those that (a) do not use a grinder at all, or (b) are intending to use a honing guide.

Hollow grind. As the name might already suggest the hollow grind is hollow. Traditionally speaking a hollow grind was applied by pushing the side of the blade to a large, spinning, grinding wheel. Because of the curve of the …

This series on grinding is in six parts: Part 1: Introduction + When To Grind. Part 2: The Technology of Grinding, Grinders, and Grinding Wheels. Part 3: Grinding Wheel Chemistry and Nomenclature. Part 4: Dressing Your Grinding Wheel for Cool Running. Part 5: Grinding the Hollow. Part 6: Repairing a Damaged Edge Without Burning the Steel.

In each case a zero grind is superior to a secondary grind. ie a hollow grind all the way to the edge will slice better than a hollow grind + secondary edge bevel, and a full flat grind all the way to the edge will cut better than a ffg with a secondary bevel. Of course, a very thin convex edge will slice better than a thick hollow grind.

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Posted February 9, 2009 (edited) Cory, Very rarely will you see forged knives that were hollow grind, mostly people stick to Flat Grinding and more realistically Convex Grinding. Hollow Grinding itself is more of a extreme sharp for straight razors and fine work but the edge is not strong compared to Convex. Personally I don't like Hollow Grind ...

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For the purpose of this online guide, we are going to discuss how to grind flat, hollow, and full-flat bevels. Variations of the above can be attempted after the basics are mastered. When using a belt grinder, always try to do the majority of rough grinding with …

I quickly found that to create the deep hollow look he's famous for (on knives similar to that one) requires at least 3/16" stock. Anything less, if you grind to the spine of a knife and carry the hollow tangent to the edge and you'll grind right through to the other side. To work correctly assumes a blade thickness of .187, a width of ~ .920 ...

Despite what you may have read or been told, hollow grinding isn't a necessity; it's simply an unavoidable by-product of using a bench grinder. Luckily for you, you're decades beyond being stuck with technology that mandates using a grinder to speed up the sharpening process. Waterstones, diamond stones, ceramic stones and even sandpaper ...

When hollow grinding, it used to bug me that I couldn't change direction between grits, like I do when hand sanding flats. One day, it ocurred to me I could just leave the grinder turned off and 'hand sand' from point to tip by pushing the blade back and forth across the wheel.

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A Simple Hollow Grinding Jig. This is a jig I threw together from things in my shop that makes it easy to create hollow-ground knife bevels. I would have made an instructable out of it, but I don't have any pictures of the process and it's pretty easy to see how the thing goes together any way. The metal widget with the springs is there just to ...

Hollow grinding goes back to the era when most home grinders were six inch (150mm) diameter. At that smaller diameter, the hollow is much more pronounced. This facilitates "two point" grinding. In my opinion, one can essentially ignore the hollow of a 250mm Tormek wheel. (By visual comparison, I also find little difference between the 200 and ...

A typical Siepmann or Berger hollow grinder used in mass producing hollow ground blades has a maximum wheel diameter of about 12", if I'm understanding your explanation correctly the resulting 6" radius is too small to make an effective hollow grind on a blade with a width of more than say 1/4" (ie a small slip-joint.)

The hollow grind is achieved by holding the blade to the grinding wheel at a right angle, which "hollows" the blade. Since this method results in a very sharp taper of the blade towards the edge, hollow-ground blades are very sharp but not particularly sturdy. How much the blade can withstand depends on the size of the hollow and the radius of ...

Hollow grinding produces a concave form on the knife blade. Products made by this type of grinding are pocket knives, smaller kitchen knives and multi-tools. This process uses Type 6 cup wheels being used simultaneously. Hollow …

Hello, I use a twelve inch wheel for most of my hollow grinding. I grind my blades as you described above, edge upward and pulling the handle toward yourself when getting to the curved section with a slight twisting motion. I scribe the edge with two parallel lines about .020 apart for keeping things even and centered. Practice, practice !!

Determine the height of a hollow or concave grind based on the contact wheel diameter and the steel thickness. For makers of razors and knives. Choose the wheel diameter.