Tool steel meant a mid carbon steel 50 years ago that you could flame harden and anneal to the correct temper colour. Nowadays it means HSS high speed steel. You can buy square 3 mm or 1/8 HSS very cheaply. It cannot be hardened and tempered with a flame. It is ready to cut as bought. Cut it with a angle grinder with a cutting disc. Change the disc to a grinding one and roughly finish the faces by hand with the angle grinder as it takes ages on a stone by hand. Use a bench grinder if competent. Do not overheat the steel, small cuts and a regular quench in water. Time for each rough blank about 6 minutes. Finish on stones, emery paper on the bench or diamond laps. Watch your angles or use a honing guide. Finish on leather with jewellers rouge. The graver if lightly touched to a finger nailat a shallow angle should not slip. In the USA drill rod is the closest to old fashioned tool steel, in the UK it is silver steel ground rod. Both can be hardened by heating with a gas torch to blood red in a gloomy workshop, not bright strip lights. A file will skate over the surface and not cut. Heat away from the tip moving the lamp up and now, it is very easy to overdo it, watch the colours the first light straw colour at the tip, means quench it immediately. Silver steel has more nickel I think than drill rod and if tempered to blue to blue purple the spring colours to make a spring it will crack under load. To practice hardening and tempering use a rusty old wood saw blade. By the way half moon knives for leather can cost well over 100 bucks and could be made from a saw blade as can a variety of thin blades. Wood chisels, can be made from silver steel as well and can be easily bent with heat before hardening.
This is, without doubt, the best video I have seen on graver sharpening. It may be slow, and I know some people may find it boring, but Mr Franklin makes absolutely sure that you get to see each and every stage of the whole process - including the final addition of the all important 'heels' which allow the graver to exit a cut smoothly. Like many others who have praised the efforts of Mr Franklin for the making of this video, I too would like to request a copy of the necessary files to be able to print out a couple of these templates in order that I can make a start towards creating my own gravers - if that is possible? Up until now, I have only ever purchased 'ready ground' gravers. I am just starting out on this wonderful hobby which is so beautiful, and inspiring, especially when done by such talented people such as Mr Franklin, who clearly wish to pass on the simple shortcuts they have discovered so that others can hopefully achieve a similar level of ability. Well done Sir, I applaud you.....
Hi I’m a complete newbie never engraved before I only need to make gravers shaped for tidying (bright cuts) bezel set rings and pendants. Your template tools are brilliant as is this video (however, it would’ve been helpful to also see the template tool in its position while you are shaping the graver) do you sell those tools I would like to buy them from you if possible?
what's the best length to start from? i can a get a lotta 1/8"s in so many different lengths, is better if I don't have to cut everything being so hard metal.
@@mantaszmenskis5619 its up to you really I wouldn't go much shorter that around 40 mm 50mm is pretty good. You can use a Dremel or angle grinder to cut the steel pretty easily. Its also cheaper to buy them in larger rods.
Hi, GJ on this kinde of tutorials it help a lot i just want to start exploring engraving i make knives as a hobby and want to try to give some flare on them , is there any chanse that you can share stl files? ty in advance
@@giwangpvcartslamp1349 Hi, when switching over to the large template your height should remain the same no matter what template you are using. :) 1/2 inch
Hallo saya mengasah menggunakan sistem lindsay dengan menggunakan power hone tetapi di bagian hell selalu berakir kurang bagus di satu sisi. Seseorang menyarankan untuk menaikan ketinggian template 3 sampai 5mm . Saya butuh sebuah saran teman
Just a comment on the first minute - please stop the fiddling around so folks can see what you are holding. Trying to keep up with that, distracts a lot from what you are saying..... no offence intended .... now onwards to see if your hands settle down a bit :
Any video Ideas? thinking of doing maybe a video on making a flat graver or maybe Background removal? Dunno!
a video on both of those would be great specifically the background removal. Also would you be able to provide the dimensions for these templates?
Make ogelet chisel or Phil Cougan bulino please
Tool steel meant a mid carbon steel 50 years ago that you could flame harden and anneal to the correct temper colour. Nowadays it means HSS high speed steel. You can buy square 3 mm or 1/8 HSS very cheaply. It cannot be hardened and tempered with a flame. It is ready to cut as bought. Cut it with a angle grinder with a cutting disc. Change the disc to a grinding one and roughly finish the faces by hand with the angle grinder as it takes ages on a stone by hand. Use a bench grinder if competent. Do not overheat the steel, small cuts and a regular quench in water. Time for each rough blank about 6 minutes. Finish on stones, emery paper on the bench or diamond laps. Watch your angles or use a honing guide. Finish on leather with jewellers rouge. The graver if lightly touched to a finger nailat a shallow angle should not slip.
In the USA drill rod is the closest to old fashioned tool steel, in the UK it is silver steel ground rod. Both can be hardened by heating with a gas torch to blood red in a gloomy workshop, not bright strip lights. A file will skate over the surface and not cut. Heat away from the tip moving the lamp up and now, it is very easy to overdo it, watch the colours the first light straw colour at the tip, means quench it immediately. Silver steel has more nickel I think than drill rod and if tempered to blue to blue purple the spring colours to make a spring it will crack under load. To practice hardening and tempering use a rusty old wood saw blade. By the way half moon knives for leather can cost well over 100 bucks and could be made from a saw blade as can a variety of thin blades. Wood chisels, can be made from silver steel as well and can be easily bent with heat before hardening.
This is, without doubt, the best video I have seen on graver sharpening. It may be slow, and I know some people may find it boring, but Mr Franklin makes absolutely sure that you get to see each and every stage of the whole process - including the final addition of the all important 'heels' which allow the graver to exit a cut smoothly.
Like many others who have praised the efforts of Mr Franklin for the making of this video, I too would like to request a copy of the necessary files to be able to print out a couple of these templates in order that I can make a start towards creating my own gravers - if that is possible? Up until now, I have only ever purchased 'ready ground' gravers. I am just starting out on this wonderful hobby which is so beautiful, and inspiring, especially when done by such talented people such as Mr Franklin, who clearly wish to pass on the simple shortcuts they have discovered so that others can hopefully achieve a similar level of ability. Well done Sir, I applaud you.....
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos! Very easy to understand and down to earth.
You're very welcome!
Just a suggestion colour your flats that way viewers will know which you’re talking about,or a diagram maybe
Thanks for the wonderful video!
this is awesome. Any change you could post the files you used to make your templates?
Hi I’m a complete newbie never engraved before I only need to make gravers shaped for tidying (bright cuts) bezel set rings and pendants. Your template tools are brilliant as is this video (however, it would’ve been helpful to also see the template tool in its position while you are shaping the graver) do you sell those tools I would like to buy them from you if possible?
Do you have the 3d print file for all the different graver templates for onglets and 105° and all the others?
Could you share your template design please...appreciate it alot
Great video. Thanks!!!
Super video. You explain exactly what I was looking for.
Where do I find the bolt you're using?? I found the type but none big enough to tap through the side.
What kind of steel is the round bar? Is it heat treated? Where can I source some?
So clean! What material graver do you use?
The gravers are HSS. High speed steel. Nothing fancy
Thanks brother it really helped me a lot
Great 👍
How by eye can you tell what blanks or engraving bits are carbides or steel ?
For a newbie I want to ask if it’s possible to customise something like a C shape chisel, cuz it should be able to make the curve cuts right?
are all blanks 1/8"dia hss steel? that's easy enough to find but how do you harden it for use?
You don’t need to harden it the high speed steel is hard enough 👍
@@jrfranklin8059 oh supa!!! thank you. i can get blanks wicked cheap.
what's the best length to start from? i can a get a lotta 1/8"s in so many different lengths, is better if I don't have to cut everything being so hard metal.
@@mantaszmenskis5619 its up to you really I wouldn't go much shorter that around 40 mm 50mm is pretty good. You can use a Dremel or angle grinder to cut the steel pretty easily. Its also cheaper to buy them in larger rods.
Hi,
GJ on this kinde of tutorials it help a lot i just want to start exploring engraving i make knives as a hobby and want to try to give some flare on them , is there any chanse that you can share stl files? ty in advance
👍👍👍
Do you have a file for these templates so I can 3D print them?
What is the bolt number you made (8mm or 6mm) .you wonder if the hole is 4mm or the hole is 3.5mm
Hi the bolt is an M8 bolt. in theory you can use any size you want. The hole in the bolt is made for 1/8 rounds so 3.175mm
@@jrfranklin8059 I always have problems in the hell / heel. my question is does the height of the whetstone stay the same when using a large template?
@@giwangpvcartslamp1349 Hi, when switching over to the large template your height should remain the same no matter what template you are using. :) 1/2 inch
Hey man. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. Any chance for templates CAD files or PDF?
Let me see what I can do
@@jrfranklin8059 Thanks man
Hey man! I am also interested in these templates. Could you please share the file with me too? Thank you.
Pdf will be very helpful
Same
Do u have the file for the 3d printed template
Sorry, hard to watch without incurring a headache.
Where i can buy the knife?
Hallo saya mengasah menggunakan sistem lindsay dengan menggunakan power hone tetapi di bagian hell selalu berakir kurang bagus di satu sisi. Seseorang menyarankan untuk menaikan ketinggian template 3 sampai 5mm . Saya butuh sebuah saran teman
What do you mean by one side? One of the side facets? Heel Facet ?
@@jrfranklin8059 hell facet, selalu tidak mendapatkan sisi yang sama . Itu maksud saya
please fix the video... it maybe a good video but I can't watch it with the camera going crazy
yeah i just buy em lol
Just a comment on the first minute - please stop the fiddling around so folks can see what you are holding. Trying to keep up with that, distracts a lot from what you are saying..... no offence intended .... now onwards to see if your hands settle down a bit :
The wobble on that wheel is horrendous.
Tell me about it 😂
Hard to watch bud...regardless of the quality of the information
Pls stop moving around...😢
Omg everyone wants the files. He did them so can you
Nobody wants to put any work in
This guy is too slow and too much talk without action
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