Recent knives...

Been busy making knives and not posting! :)

Here are a few that I've just recently finished up.

Looking like a knife, sorta

Now, the lock bar relief has been milled in, and you can see an "action" shot of cutting the lock bar in. The finished product is shown in a typically dirty hand. Last, starting the fit of the blade stops, closed and open.

Next steps

At this point I've profiled the blade and liners and also drilled and reamed the pivot holes. The larger blade in the picture is for my first frame lock, coming soon :)

Starting a new one

Ok, we're starting a new order now. Here you can see I've glued the pattern to the stock I'll be making it from. The blade steel is CPM S35VN and the liners will be cut from .071" thick titanium.

Folder finished!

Well, the holidays have slowed me down some, and now the temperatures have dropped and slowed me down some more :) 

I finally got out and put the final touches on a folder for a customer today...

This afternoon's work

Ok, the blade is in the kiln for heat treating, so I can work on the scales for the knife. The following pictures show the profiling of the micarta to the shape of the liners, then thinning the micarta down to around 1/8".

More from the weekend

I clamp on a file guide to the blade to make sure the plunge grinds are even on both sides of the blade. Then, I grind in the initial bevels for heat treating. By putting the start of the bevels on while the steel isn't hardened, it doesn't eat up belts as quickly with a sharp edge. The remainder of the grinding will be done after the blade has been hardened.