A couple of my recent slipjoints

bbarnettAUS

bbarnettAUS

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Gday folks,

Here's a few of my recent slipjoints using my version of Bill Burke's "River of Fire" Damascus. All have 410 bolster and liners, A2 back spring and mammoth ivory. Hope ya's like em.

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Cheers Bruce
 
I really like the last one, a good wharnie with a nice swell handle. Look great! I haven't seen you around the porch before, are you new here or am I oblivious?

Connor
 
Welcome to Traditionals. Pull up a chair on the porch and stay. As I said in the other thread, very classy slipjoints. Just the kind we like around here.

Several questions for you.

Are the bolsters/liners intregal, or are they soldered/pinned.

Second question. A2 for the springs. How did that choice come about. The steel would seem to be a higher wear resistant steel than the 1095/ simple carbon steel we see on many.
 
ConBon said:
I really like the last one, a good wharnie with a nice swell handle. Look great! I haven't seen you around the porch before, are you new here or am I oblivious?

Connor
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Conbon, I meant to ask this in another thread, but with that user name, and being in Detroit, your user name would not have anything to do with Lean Manufacturing would it?
 
A2 is an air hardening carbon steel, so often is being used for custom folder's part due to the ease of heat treating it into antiscale foil, with quenching plates and avoid scaling and distortion issues, plus is a nice steel and will develope a good patina over long time, to match the damascus.
Most often oil quenching carbon steel's spring leads to slight distortion wich should be corrected in order to have a nice fitting, and it'll cost time and labor.
Abrasion resistance is not so important, since oil is in the joint, on the contrary we would have galling (galding?) regardless the steel used in the proper hrc range.
 
Bigfattyt said:
Conbon, I meant to ask this in another thread, but with that user name, and being in Detroit, your user name would not have anything to do with Lean Manufacturing would it?
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Oh no, not at all. It's just my nickname. What does Lean manufacture? Might be fun to work on my namesake :D

Connor
 
Looking good, Bruce, thanks for sharing. Bill's ROF is one of my favorites, and your pattern came out great.
 
Bruce, those are very nice, I love the crackled mammoth on the little wharncliffe, and the damascus pattern is very cool looking!
 
Incredible knives, beautiful mammoth and awe-inspiring damascus! :eek: Glad to see Australia is holding it down as far as custom slipjoints go. :thumbup: :)
 
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