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SID-SWITCH-BLADE said:
Morning, have a very productive day Daniel. I usually start work at 6AM, but today my wife's getting bloodwork done, and i'm home with my daughter until the Mrs. and I can tag out and then i'm off to work. Got another daughter on the way due Dec 1. I'll be a zombie until March I'm sure lol. Babies,,,sleep deprovation fo sho. Just wanted to check in. Later Daniel and fellas.
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Hey good morning and congratulations on the baby on the way!

I hear you on being a zombie, my daughter Jade is 5 months old and does not like to sleep. I don't do knife work at 5 am (well maybe small stuff) so I get a lot of CAD work done, lots of designing! lol...



Big day today and lots done yesterday! Everything is coming together nicely.
 
Ah the joys of small children and babies. Seriously it's the best but you pay the price by never sleeping.
My son turns one on Thursday and he's just recently started to sleep most nights. His four year old sister was way worse and didn't sleep through the night until she was two.

I am a zombie and likely will be until we get bigger house!
 
mr_badexample said:
Ah the joys of small children and babies. Seriously it's the best but you pay the price by never sleeping.
My son turns one on Thursday and he's just recently started to sleep most nights. His four year old sister was way worse and didn't sleep through the night until she was two.

I am a zombie and likely will be until we get bigger house!
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lol I'm there with you! best of luck with sleep! :D At least they are getting older but then there are more challenges, lol. :D
 
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Kids are great. I got lucky, I guess, my boy Zyler was sleeping 6 hours a night by 4 months, and a full 8 by 7 months. There is a balancing act though, a kid that sleeps well is well rested and ready to run you ragged during the day! He sure is a monster, though. I've posted some of his antics on here over the last year, I think the best is when he painted himself blue! He'll be 3 next month, and he's doing pretty good with the potty training, but that's a whole different mess! Just you wait Daniel!

That's a good looking folder, but if you are going to make it, how do you plan on cutting that lockbar out? That curve would be a pain unless it was done with EDM. Also, where the lock bar tuches the blade, it is very close to the pivot which can make for a weak point. Stylistically, it looks great, the handle is deffinetly a DFK and I expect it to be 1/4" steel?


-Xander
 
fast14riot said:
Kids are great. I got lucky, I guess, my boy Zyler was sleeping 6 hours a night by 4 months, and a full 8 by 7 months. There is a balancing act though, a kid that sleeps well is well rested and ready to run you ragged during the day! He sure is a monster, though. I've posted some of his antics on here over the last year, I think the best is when he painted himself blue! He'll be 3 next month, and he's doing pretty good with the potty training, but that's a whole different mess! Just you wait Daniel!

That's a good looking folder, but if you are going to make it, how do you plan on cutting that lockbar out? That curve would be a pain unless it was done with EDM. Also, where the lock bar tuches the blade, it is very close to the pivot which can make for a weak point. Stylistically, it looks great, the handle is deffinetly a DFK and I expect it to be 1/4" steel?


-Xander
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Awesome stuff, Xyler painting himself blue was hilarious!

Folder - it still needs tons of changes, it is just a design I did one morning when I was up early... it is 6.5" long. The blade is just under the Federal legal limit of 2.5" (or so I understand on the law) I am debating the thickness...
 
Funny how sleep deprovation is a universal right of passage for parents. No matter what continent you come from i'm sure all babies sleep like shit at night and create walking dead parents : ) I never drank coffee until my first daughter, hell I love coffee. Thanks Ava lol.

Whoa, Whoa,, whoa fast14riot... dude don't be a buzz-kill ; ) Seriously though you seem to know your kife building Sir.
I'm digging the folder Daniel, however may I recommend a 2 and 15/16" blade? NJ is a very strict state and they still allow 3". I thought only NY City and England were worse than NJ, lol.

Is that the design for the thick chisel convex folders in the fall/winter time? I know everyone seems to love the hole for opening, but thumb disks are da bomb. Emerson style, screw a used 45 up there. Sorry I apologize for giving advice. I'm just soooo jacked up to see what you create. Whatever you create will be outstanding,, no doubt : ) Holes rock too cause they cut down on weight.
 
The folder looks great mang. Like Xander said, maybe shorten the lockbar and extend the tang a bit. You have a lot of room at the end of the handle. Might also want to raise the blade a bit when it's closed to streamline the profile and allow more access to the deployment hole. I'll take mine with a 3.5" - 4" cutting edge in 0.200" CPM-D2 or CPM-M4 with Ti scales :D

ok, maybe 0.185"...but no thinner!
 
SID-SWITCH-BLADE said:
Funny how sleep deprovation is a universal right of passage for parents. No matter what continent you come from i'm sure all babies sleep like shit at night and create walking dead parents : ) I never drank coffee until my first daughter, hell I love coffee. Thanks Ava lol.

Whoa, Whoa,, whoa fast14riot... dude don't be a buzz-kill ; ) Seriously though you seem to know your kife building Sir.
I'm digging the folder Daniel, however may I recommend a 2 and 15/16" blade? NJ is a very strict state and they still allow 3". I thought only NY City and England were worse than NJ, lol.

Is that the design for the thick chisel convex folders in the fall/winter time? I know everyone seems to love the hole for opening, but thumb disks are da bomb. Emerson style, screw a used 45 up there. Sorry I apologize for giving advice. I'm just soooo jacked up to see what you create. Whatever you create will be outstanding,, no doubt : ) Holes rock too cause they cut down on weight.
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Hey man! lol on the coffee, I go through a lot of it

I like the idea of a bigger blade, just under 3" would be nice for just about everything. That is likely what will happen.

Thumb discs... I think they could happen on a few, same with thumb studs.

Thanks for the input, I want to know!


gooeytek said:
The folder looks great mang. Like Xander said, maybe shorten the lockbar and extend the tang a bit. You have a lot of room at the end of the handle. Might also want to raise the blade a bit when it's closed to streamline the profile and allow more access to the deployment hole. I'll take mine with a 3.5" - 4" cutting edge in 0.200" CPM-D2 or CPM-M4 with Ti scales :D

ok, maybe 0.185"...but no thinner!
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Hey thanks for the input! I'm with you on all of that.

I know what you guys want, beefy! I can do that.

Thanks Gooeytek! sounds good



I'm learning a lot about folder geometry, I have a whole book that mostly focuses on that, I'm obsessed. Change one small thing, everything changes.


My newer design will probably be ~3" blade, ~4" handle, Ti frame as thick as it can get with no relief for the lock bar, framelock (maybe thin scales too), tip up.

I like heavy duty and I like clean and simple, I want to do both at the same time... something you don't see a lot.
 
Afternoon men.I am back on line now.Had to buy a new hard drive.after I get them to get everything off the old one it is getting shot with my 454.It is the end of it ever being a problem again!!!
 
bigcountry1315 said:
Afternoon men.I am back on line now.Had to buy a new hard drive.after I get them to get everything off the old one it is getting shot with my 454.It is the end of it ever being a problem again!!!
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Good to see you back!

Blast that hard drive once for me, lol! I destroyed my last printer office space style! :D

I kept the circuit boards from the printer and a few other things, they are G10. That gold stuff on the boards is pure gold, just very thin. A friend of mine took a ton of them and eloctronically jigged the gold out... wow I can get off subject fast, lol

Have a good afternoon!
 
Mornin gang. Workin on another razor today, rescaling with smoke acrylic and copper pins. Picked up some new ones to restore as well. Got a nice matched set of Union Cutlery made Spike brand razors that will clean up very nice.


Pics later today.


-Xander
 
fast14riot said:
Mornin gang. Workin on another razor today, rescaling with smoke acrylic and copper pins. Picked up some new ones to restore as well. Got a nice matched set of Union Cutlery made Spike brand razors that will clean up very nice.


Pics later today.


-Xander
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Sounds cool, I want to see that scale material!


I'm taking a break here waiting on my Ti to oxidize in some Oxiclean/water solution. I have sharpened 6 knives, molded 8 sheaths, etched 4 knives, anodized 3 knives and am oxidizing two now... I want to work more on the shaaths in a minute.
 
Busy as bees you and Xander are...hmmmm good idea Daniel, i'm surprised that i haven't seen circut board knife scales yet. Wish I was a Nerd,,,i'd probably make more money etc. lol. Remember the Revenge of the Nerds movies, I and II were good.
 
Hey Big country, that's a great idea. I've got an HP all-in-one that quit on me way to soon. A few .308's and .45 ACP's sound in order.
 
Hey guys. Got sidetracked with cooking dinner yesterday and forgot to take pics of the razor scales I'm working on. I did center cut pork loin chops with carmalized apples and onions with fresh green beans. Marinated and grilled nectarines with blue berries and ice cream for desert. Took some time to prep.

Anyways, here are the scales ready to be drilled and polished. All shaped, and profiled. A little tip Daniel, if you ever get to work on yours, glue the scales togther and do all the work that way. Profiling, drilling, shaping, polishing. Seperate and then apply your finish if needed. glue the wedge end first if your going to use glue, and pin the wedge first. Always pein one end of the pin in the vise to avoid damaging the scales. If using 1/16" pins (which you should) you can use #0 washers under the pin head, offers just a tiny bit more protection when peining the pins. Scales should be fully finished and buffed before pinning, then buff the pin heads after if you like. I don't normally, makes for a hand made look.

This is the material, 3mm smoke acrylic. I live behind a Tap Plastics and dumpster dive for materials like this al the time. That's where this came from!

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The brown is the protective paper on it. It doesn't get in the way and protects the surface very nicely.

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-Xander
 
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup!!!!!!!????????? finaly a day off !! I am going to play with sharp stuff and ride my bike .....not at the same time.Have a great day y'all.
 
Morning y'all. I was awakened this morning around 0500 or so by rain! Its still a little overcast, and it only rained for maybe 30 minutes or so, but it was just enough to clear the air. I love the way the air seems cleaner early in the morning after a rain.

Got the wedge for the razor I'm working on all sanded to shape and polishd the inside edge. I was considering using a bright red or orange plastic, which would have looked great, but I just couldn't scrounge up any scraps. So instead I used some cow hoof! The hoof works very much like working with horn (its the same stuff), it takes an amazing polish and can be shaped with hand tools very easily.

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-Xander
 
Xander that is looking good! The hoof will look killer with the smoke scales. Nice job on scrounging them!

You know, you could really have a niche with these razors! Just saying...


Good to see you guys here, I hope everyone is having a great weekend!
 
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