CNC milling hardened knife blades - How to - Fixturing, CAD, and CAM

0:00 Intro 03:55 Barrel lapping the pivot bore 09:10 Measuring the blanks before machining 11:24 All about the fixture (Watch this for fixture design help) 28:21 Setup on the machine for machining 30:30 Probing and machining the first side 32:13 Checking out the part after roughing, and semi roughing 35:06 Finish machining the first side using Steep and Shallow 36:36 Checking out the done first bevel 38:36 Checking out the finished tang angle and corner rounding 39:34 Using Fusions Inspect Geometry on the first side (link in details for setup) 40:23 Going over the inspection results in Fusion 44:30 Why surface inspect is helpful for this application 45:00 Setup for the second side bevel 45:26 Checking our setup with an indicator 48:50 Interpreting indicator results on the fixture 49:49 The game plan for fixing our part rising issue 50:56 Rechecking after new clamp and milling 52:08 Inspecting the bevel after milling side 2 52:35 Talking about blade total results 54:36 Outro Sorry about the grainy audio. Think it has to do with the buzzing from the converter, messing with the auto wind noise cutter on the camera. If you're wondering on where to start with your knife bevel milling, this video might help. Check out 11:24 for all the fixturing details. Plenty of good info in here. I think going over the fixture is the most helpful part. A final sweep before milling was 0.0015" of lift. This was after a took a little bit more out of the fixture. No one said it would be easy. Surface inspect setup for Fusion360 / Haas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9VnOJoQbvg