Making knives: CNC Knife Milling

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This is an early video we did showing our Blade milling process at the time. That was over 3 years ago, time flies! We plan to film some updated videos about our process soon.

We get raw sheet stock from our steel supplier. CNC milling is the first step in the process of turning the plain sheet of steel into knives. First we drill accurate locating holes at the center of the sheet. This allows us to very accurately flip the sheet halfway through to mill the second side of the blades. Once both sides of the bevel are milled, we do the final milling step which is to cut the knives out of the sheet.

From there the knives must be buffed to remove the burrs and milling marks. Then heat treat, more hand finishing, sharpening and assembly. Then finally, shipping to the customer! Check out the other videos in our "shop tour and process playlist" to get more details about our processes!    • ( Early days) Shop tour and production pro...  

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