Folder making tutorial...

SamuraiDave

SamuraiDave

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Well... here I am in the middle of a few dozen projects, and broke. So what is a guy to do? START ANOTHER!!!

So I took apart my cheapo "Cuttin' Horse" Smith & Wesson $6 knife, cause it is a piece of poo that can hold 1/2 decent edge. I got the existing springs and I plan on using some scrap aluminum as handles.

This is just for fun and to develop more experience with these things.
My question is; Does anybody know where or if there is a liner lock tutorial out there?

Thanks.
 
I did one back in the spring here in this forum but I can't find it now. Being a tired, old has been sucks :)
Anybody remember it? I'll keep searching.
 
Holy crap guys :eek: ... I dont have anything but elbow grease and a few hand tools! I am going for bare bones "ugly but works", type of rig.

I am now thinking aluminum liners, cheap stuff from Home Depot, and some oak scales I have dyed pink. Washers will probably be from a coke can that I am killing off right now. All put together with pop rivits and a 1/8" steel rods and epoxy. I saved a clip, stop pin, and the axel the blade rotates on. Finish will be superglue.

Yeah, it will be gross looking, but if it works it will have a personality.

The things I do to keep off the streets! :rolleyes:
 
Well, I have to say thanks again to all you guys for helping me out.

Is it finished? No, but probably somewhere around thanksgiving it will be.
Yall's tutorials gave me a bunch of ideas. I needed washers to start piecing it together last night and had none. Then I remember how someone posted about how you could use pennys. So I took out my 400 grit paper and a cinder block, smoothed them out, drilled a hole through Lincoln sitting at his memorial (exactly the center) and removed the burrs. I had to grind the circumference of one down considerably so that the linerlock passes over it, and the other is full penny size so that the liner lock may rest against it (if it ends up that way).

Again, thanks for getting me started :)
 
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