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Got the third Dejavoo and the second smaller model underway this morning for a frame lock rebuild of the lock side.
Got all but my lanyard hold drilled out on the new .140" thickness ti slab side for the lock but I started it, just didn't take it clean through. This scan shows it really rough cut but I was test fitting all my holes to make sure everything went together as its supposed to and that the clip screwed down over the pivot without need to recess it down further, stuff like that. The clip on the original handle is nested down inside so it changes the dynamics of how things go together on this model just a mite. I've figured out how to adapt that so that it will work in the new lock side but still be easily put back together just as it came from the factory so no permanent modification is done to it really. I'm pretty sure most of the guys asking me to do this mod are not going to be going back to the liner lock but you never know.
Anyway, so far so good. Now if I can just hit the lock right when I mill out the long and short cuts I'll be home free and on my way to the tough grinding phase to the finish line. Won't be today but I figured while I had it by the scanner I'd show the progress where I left off on it this morning.
By the way, you can click the link titled "STR's Blog" in the bottom of any of my posts and see a small and large Dejavoo completed already in my blogger if interested. Scroll down a bit on that first page that comes up and I have them not far down the page.
More as I get time in the shop on this one. Stay tuned.
Thanks for looking.
STR
Got all but my lanyard hold drilled out on the new .140" thickness ti slab side for the lock but I started it, just didn't take it clean through. This scan shows it really rough cut but I was test fitting all my holes to make sure everything went together as its supposed to and that the clip screwed down over the pivot without need to recess it down further, stuff like that. The clip on the original handle is nested down inside so it changes the dynamics of how things go together on this model just a mite. I've figured out how to adapt that so that it will work in the new lock side but still be easily put back together just as it came from the factory so no permanent modification is done to it really. I'm pretty sure most of the guys asking me to do this mod are not going to be going back to the liner lock but you never know.
Anyway, so far so good. Now if I can just hit the lock right when I mill out the long and short cuts I'll be home free and on my way to the tough grinding phase to the finish line. Won't be today but I figured while I had it by the scanner I'd show the progress where I left off on it this morning.
By the way, you can click the link titled "STR's Blog" in the bottom of any of my posts and see a small and large Dejavoo completed already in my blogger if interested. Scroll down a bit on that first page that comes up and I have them not far down the page.
More as I get time in the shop on this one. Stay tuned.
Thanks for looking.
STR
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