I have made many fixes blades and modified frame locks, but I have never built a slipjoint folder. Here are the beginnings: 1084 steel as that is what I can effectively heat treat in house. Linen micarta will form both the liner and the scales. Here the profile has been sanded on the blade and back spring. Holes have been drilled and reamed. Nail nick cut in with aid of a grinding jig and a Dremel cut off disk. Blade stamped, sanded, and ready for heat treat. Test run.
^^^^Thanks all ^^^^ Ground in the primary bevels with a couple of grinding jigs and a 10” hollow grind wheel. This is a radiused sanding stick for sanding the hollow grind. Hand sanded to 150 and ready for heat treat. Covered in antiscale, non magnetic, and headed to the quench. Tempering with some fixed blades that were quenched as well.
Check out this pic for talent...a broken back spring. It failed in testing. Guess I will make 4-5 new back springs, try different tempering on each, and see which holds up. Glad this happened now and not after the knife was assembled.
That’s awesome craftsmanship, I really look forward to seeing how it turns out when you get a new spring made.
Apparently we were all wrong and you’re no craftsman @SEMO Now if only I knew what I were talking about...
I’m looking forward to it as much as anyone. Hah. If at first you don’t succeed...at being a craftsmen, try, try again.
Well, I got back to repairing the broken back spring. Patterned and drilled. Heat treated, sanded, and tempered. Sanded and finished with Dremel and by hand. Ready for final relief grind and assembly. I tested this spring 200 times before starting knife assembly.