Resources

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This page which lists links to websites that I find informative or inspirational. There are also links to useful suppliers.

Knifemaking suppliers:

• USAKnifeMaker: Great source for G10! Wide range and great speedy service.

• Jantz Supply: Great source for a wide range of knifemaking gear, especially good for interesting blade steels and 2x72" abrasive belts

• Knifemaker.ca: Great source of steels, abrasives and heat-treat supplies for canadian knifemakers

• KnifeKits.com: Best range of Kydex materials that I've seen anywhere!

• Alpha Knife Supply: Huge range of blade steels and G10!

• Online Metals: Great source for large & small quantities of tool steel!

Informative and Inspirational sites:

• CNC Zone: Forum for discussion of CNC and manual wood and metal-working machines

• Frets: Lots of neat projects for around the shop

• 5 Bears: A homemade CNC mill, jet engines and more

• Tooling Around: General info on small machine tools

• Home Shop Machinist: A great source of machining information

• Home Model Engine Machinist: Great for information on close-tolerance machining of small parts

• Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting

Useful videos:

• How to make a silicon mold

• Machine Shop Tips: More than 80 videos demoing machine shop techniques

• Gough Custom: My YouTube channel

U.S. CNC Suppliers (that ship to Canada & internationally):

• Little Machine Shop: Parts and supplies for small machine tools

• Automation Technologies Inc: Automation components

• Surplus Center: Great source for electric motors and controllers

• Geckodrive: The best stepper controllers I have ever used

• eBay: Don't underestimate how useful eBay can be for materials and tooling!

• SDP/SI: Bearings, Gearing, Belts, Seals, Motors and more

• Roton: Great place for buying leadscrews and ballscrews

Canadian CNC suppliers:

• Applied Industrial Technologies: Bearings, Gearing, Linear motion and more.

• MotionTek: Servo and Stepper drives, Linear rails, pulleys, vacuum motors and couplers!

Toronto & Ontario suppliers:

• McKinnon Metals: Carbon and tool steels, aluminum and brass
• Atlas Machinery: A good selection of tooling, machinery and measurement equipment
• Lee Valley: A surprising number of useful precision tools
• KBC Tools: A huge range of tools, as well as a good supply of steels suitable for knifemaking.
• Bohler/Uddeholm Canada: Supplier of high-end specialty tool steels.