Brass Bolster Texturing

[WinDancer]

How is the brass bolster texturing [like on David Whitehorse knives] done? I have also seen the 'dot' texturing used. How is that done?

THANKS! for all the input... I already spent an hour in my shop with my trusty ball-peen hammer and anvil.... and the texturing is perfect!

Anyone know how the 'dots' are done? Drilled, maybe? How do you get even spacing?

Thanks again........ Dave

[This message has been edited by WinDancer (edited 19 May 1999).]

 

[Ruppe]

I don't know what he uses, but I have used a very small ballpeen hammer to texture both gruards and bolsters in the past.

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[Harry Jensen]

I've used a small, rough stone in a flex shaft tool, letting it lightly bounce across the surface, and heard of using large grit sandpaper and a wood mallet. Shot peening with lowered air pressure would work too.
Harry Jensen

 

[Gary W. Graley]

I recently traded an older Rigid USA folder that I modified by texturing the bolsters and I also used the ball pean hammer method, When I did one side I showed my kids the knife, the smooth side and they said oh, then I flipped it over to the textured side and they went ahhh, a nice difference.

Oh yes, I almost forgot, I sat the knife on a heavy block of metal to prevent bouncing, when I was done the blade was very stiff opening, next time I'll get some shim stock and put that in first. Light hammering blows and try to be consistent. After peaning I filed and sanded around the outside edges to clean it up some.

G2


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[This message has been edited by Gary W. Graley (edited 03 June 1999).]

 

[Ruppe]

I almost forgot, you can get a similar, although less delicate, by running over a knife with your car. One neat effect I got one time was by forgeting a knife with brass guard attached in my heatreatin oven. Well the brass melted and fused to the blade making a neat pattern on the blade that others think I did on purpose. I sold that blade for good$$

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Ron Ruppé
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[bill boyd]

The Foredom flex shft rotary tool has a handpiece that performs this texturing (if you have a Foredom). Alan Elishewitz used it on some of his fixed blades in his early years. It was a very fine texture, looked nice.