How To Taper Tangs!! Zac Buchanan Knives: Knife Making Tutorial

In this Knife Making Tutorial Video Zac Buchanan shows and talks about the process he uses to taper the tangs on his knives.
He uses a 10” wheel and Platen attachments with a 50 grit orange blaze abrasive belt. As well as gloves, face mask respirator and dust collection system for safety purposes.
First Zac hollow grinds the tang on the 10” wheel, hogging out the majority of material. Then he uses the platen to grind in the actual taper of the tang.
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[@jtup9820]

It has been great watching your videos. Finally a real knifemaker and not another youtuber sharing the same info they have only learned from other untrained youtubers

[@gjh400]

Excellent tutorial. Your teaching skills are great.

[@ZacBuchananKnives]

Thank you very much!

[@AVcustomknife]

Hello Zac! Thank you for the video! Come on for more videos! Ricasso line, descents, soldering guards, dropped hunter making the whole process from A to Z!

[@ZacBuchananKnives]

AV thanks man! I’ll add those to my list of future videos, I appreciate the suggestions!

[@AVcustomknife]

👍

[@etalleyknives]

Thanks for doing these videos. I am enjoying them.

[@ZacBuchananKnives]

my pleasure Eldon! 😁👍

[@mrstephenporter]

Been watching a few videos on tapering and this one hit home. Thanks for sharing

[@bryanbaker6767]

Great video Zac....like how you show the result of the work and what it should look like

[@ZacBuchananKnives]

Thank you, it’s no problem.

[@dereksprogramming3233]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing. Been wanting to try and make a loveless style knife and this vids helps a lot

[@nateand3]

I've been wondering how this happened lol i watched another video about this quite some time ago, but it was bad. Real bad lol. Good video man

[@ZacBuchananKnives]

Thanks, I’m glad you find it helpful.

[@NuManXplore]

Excellent explaining and demonstrating!! Thank you!! I take it that it’s important to drill holes in tang first? Any issues with pins aligning on glue up?

[@ZacBuchananKnives]

Drilling holes is the very first step I do. After you taper the tang you drill the handle material by clamping the blade down, that keeps the tang straight as well as the bolt holes.

[@NuManXplore]

@@ZacBuchananKnives Ok! Thx!

[@LastBastian]

I feel like this is the second part of a two part vid, and I missed the first.
Did you mark the tang first before grinding away on it, or are you just eyeballing it?
Either way, how are you going about making sure it's flat and even ?

[@deividsoares5571]

Poderia mostrar este jig

[@ianknight2687]

Great video. What material are you using for these knives?

[@ZacBuchananKnives]

The steel is CPM154CM stainless steel form Niagara specialty metals. 👍

[@Perknot50]

What’s grinder is this? Model etc? Thx. Good vids also

[@ZacBuchananKnives]

It’s from Beaumont metal works, “kmg” the Knife Makers Grinder. Thanks for the question and thank you for watching! 👍

[@bobby5160]

Why not forge the tapers?

[@ZacBuchananKnives]

I don’t do any forging, this is for the stock removal method 👍

[@jimbowie307]

What thickness is that steel?

[@ZacBuchananKnives]

1/4”