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I finally got around to making my Curd knife. 
Made from 304 Stainless Steel flatbar.  5/8" X 1/8"
304 Stainless wire.

Basically just bend this by hand and drilled holes. 

Tommorrow is "go" time.  time to make a batch of Cheddar.

Woo Hoo! Looking good Wayne I can't wait to see it in action!

Woohoo is right! I count 24 US gallons, 91.2 liters, looks like you finally have all ducks in row for your monster 100 quart vat . Fingers crossed for you .

PS: Curd knife looks great also.

Questions

• What is the middle horizontal line, a separate woven wire to keep the vertical wires reasonably parallel?
• How do you use it to cut different sized cut curds for different recipes? Just run through milk at an angle to make smaller?

Thanks
The middle wire is for straightness, correct.
The only way to move these wires will be to make a whole new curd knife.


That really is not that expensive.  The SS flatbar was only 8 dollars.
the wire was 20 bucks
Cobalt bits, 2.50/ea ( i broke a few)


Oh, and the cuts on my fingers?  priceless.

Maybe you could drill a few more holes so you can move the stringer up a tad use the bolts for adjusting the wires?

What are you going to use for a  mold on this huge cheese? 11 kgs wow! I don't even have a fridge big enough for that monster!

i have a 10.75 diameter X 11.75in tall mould.

We shall see if it all fits.

Wayne,

That looks really good. Are you going to make something similar for the horizontal cuts too? Maybe you already have made something similar... Either way that is a big curd knife.  How did you tie off the bottom ends?  Solder?

Ryan

Could you notch the side bars to string horizontal wires so that you are cutting vertical and horizontal at the same time?

Sailor, There was a little discussion on this when I was making my attempt at a curd knife here: https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,890.0.html. 

Consensus was there would be too much drag in the vat doing both cuts at once and you may just push the whole mass of curd around in circles without actually cutting.

Hope that helps,

Ryan

Quote from: Sailor Con Queso on September 15, 2009, 05:29:46 PM
Could you notch the side bars to string horizontal wires so that you are cutting vertical and horizontal at the same time?

Actually, I ran t he wire from one eyebolt down, then back up to the next eyebolt.  So i never had to terminate them.

Ahh...that would make way too much sense!  I think maybe we've even discussed that on here way back when.  Good job on it.  Having a decent knife sure makes life much easier.

Ryan

i have a ton of wire leftover if you need some.

The frame is just hand-bent flatbar from here.
The part number is F51858
An 8ft length of that is ~12 USD

Do you feel that the 1/8" stock is sturdy enough?

Yes,  More than enough.  Way more.

Does it work and do you like the way it works?