KMT 104 - Damasteel part 1 - cutting out blades Media

I've got a long one for you this week! Get your popcorn ready. Here I am taking some new sheets of Damasteel (damascus steel) and cutting them out of the sheets into blanks that I can then CNC machine into my knife blades. I go over the entire process, from how to nest the parts within the sheet, how to use Solidworks and HSMWorks to design the pattern and write the CNC code, then I use the Mitee Bite Vac Magic to suction the parts down to the table of my Tormach PCNC1100 CNC milling machine. Then I proceed to break about 5-10 endmills haha. Luckily I did not ruin any of the blades, it just caused a lot of headaches for me. Next time I will get these blades waterjet cut, this was a long long process that I do not need to do myself every single time.

I talked about Instagram in the vid, here is the direct website link to our Instagram accounts if you're not into the whole smartphone thing.
https://instagram.com/johngrimsmoknives
https://instagram.com/erik_grimsmoknives

Thanks for watching!!!