tinfoil hat timmy
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This is a thread for you guys over here to see how knives get machined in my shop. Milling is an uncommon approach to knife making, but Im a machinist and thats how I do it.
This is the knife Ill be making:
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It is a 6 fighter in the same family as my 8 shiv. This will be new pattern.
I won't delve into the design process here because Ive covered that topic before and this thread is really just more about pictures.
After a design is developed a computer model is made because 3D data is just about a prerequisite for 3D milling.
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This is being machined in an old vertical machining center. These have carousels loaded with cutting tools, in this case on a chain, that get touched off and can then be called out in a program and used to cut a work piece. Im mostly using drills, endmills and facemills in this project.
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Roughing down the top of a work piece with a small inserted facemill
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This removes the mill scale and major surface flaws and gets the material flatter and closer to net shape.
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Some holes drilled
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Some pockets milled out
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Running a finish pass across the top
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This is CPM 3V here and it is a bear to finish.
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Then I engrave my signature and the steel type
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And flip it over and finish out side 2
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While I was at it I ran some ELMAX too. It finishes out very clean, but it is abrasive on tooling.
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The next step is milling the bevels. This is a pretty cool operation, I hope you'll check back in later.
More to come...
Here's what I was talking about.
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