OK, it’s late at night so don’t be too harsh on me. I was doing a set of four kitchen knives for my sister this week and ran into mounting problems with two of them. The first and second were standard chef’s knives which I cleaned up on the polishing wheel as well as reprofiling for right-handed use (apex offset to the left). The third was a boning knife (close to a filet knife profile) with a 16 dps primary and a 20 dps micro-bevel and was too narrow for my Gen 3 vise. I had to remount my Gen 2 vise with the Low Angle Adapter to reach the angles. The fourth was a deep recurve paring knife which also required the Gen 2/LAA. I tried the Tormek adapter with both knives with no luck.
So it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to come up with a new base design that would allow for quick-changing the vise from above. Maybe a dove-tail base with a simple locking screw. There really isn’t much of a mechanical load seen at the base, so it shouldn’t be a major design issue.
This would also open the option of third or even fourth vise configurations; I’m imagining a Gen 2-type vise for diamond-shaped dagger profiles. I’m sure there are other specific needs that could be accommodated – like the Puma knives. WE could sell the jaws for different options.
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