Folding knife making resources

ScottyE · Oct 12, 2014

I've never made a knife and I'm planning on starting off with fixed blades. However I really like folding knives and eventually I want to build folders. Are there any good resources for building folding knives at home? I've drawn up a lot of designs for folders and I'd really like to build them.

Thank you for the help and advice,

Scott

aarongb · Oct 12, 2014

I've been studying this tutorial for a while
http://www.rayrogers.com/ftutorial.htm

ScottyE · Oct 12, 2014

That is exactly what I'm looking for! Thank you

gudspelr · Oct 12, 2014

There's a fantastic liner lock and frame lock tutorial here on bladeforums in the stickies. A couple of my all time favorites.

Jeremy

ScottyE · Oct 22, 2014

I've been looking through the stickies but I couldn't find those tutorials. Can you post a link?

12345678910 · Oct 22, 2014

This was only 6 days ago

Check the google books thread and the others, lots of books links and reviews scattered about.

www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1228046-Need-instructions-book-to-build-first-folder

Drew Riley · Oct 23, 2014

http://chriscrawfordknives.com/#/slipjoint-pocketknife/4535414914
http://www.medawebs.com/index.php/2012-11-20-11-22-01/slipjoint-tutorial.html
http://www.culverart.com/Tutorials.htm
http://www.ptartistry.com/slipjoint-knife-build.html
http://boseknives.com/backpocket-construction/

Here are a few of the better ones (for slip joints) that I've found. A few different techniques here and there, but should be enough to get you going.

NeilJBorja · Oct 23, 2014

In terms of liner locks, these are the ones that I used to build my first one:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZNnPupKVG7JEUTN0GWoSX-OqpF8rQQb1
http://www.howellbladesmith.com/tutorials/liner1
http://www.ramanon.com/topic/32039-...one-way-to-do-itintro-and-a-bit-o-philosophy/ (Hope it's not bad form to link to another forum).