Originally posted by tippit:
It-m-grow,
This one will be easy to mount as it fits the ID of my Bemans by just sliding in. There won't be a need for any other insert in the shaft. I'll probably use hot melt glue the same way I glue in regular inserts.
I just forged it out this morning. I did a trial to get fit & spin alignment before tempering. Everything is true so no tuning or adjusting needed.
Wow. Very cool. I assumed (wrongly) that there would be a poor alignment at least in one direction (up, down, left, or right) between the point of the the blade and the insert portion after forging and rolling the insert portion. Not to any great degree of course, just enough to make it not spin perfectly true.
SO I assumed (again wrongly :-) ) that you would grind the insert a little extra and use the "slop" to allow for a spin adjustment to true it up.
Leave it to the master...I knew you had a trick, but you didn't share it :-)
Thanks. Good luck bear hunting.