Glenn Are Hovin WIP thread The Konsulent.

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Hey everyone.

Short story, I have been making knives since March 2014. 30 year old family man from Norway. Knifemaking is primary hobby but I have found my passion.

More or less it was a few people that "got" me into knifemaking and have been very important. Mentioned, Stan Wilson, Mike Smith, Jay Fischer and Mike Carter.

Also been very lucky to gotten a few friends on the way as Stan and Mike, without them I would be able to grow. So I start this thread saying thanks to them and their friendship.

To the model. The model have been inspiration from some previous build and of course my sub conscience have played a roll with the design.

correct me if the text is off topic.

next posts from now will be all WIP

thanks

/Glenn
 
all materials have been sanded flat on 1" glass platter and are ready for first mechanical task, drill the undersized holes for liners and spine material.
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done holes
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splitter from the superglue
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now I can do final profiling on blade i open and locked position, earlier the better. and this knife will have a lot mechanics so I have to be sure to have room where needed.
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Cutting the spine


Flat sanding the spine end for blade to stop


Possible to get best result even without surface grinders or mill. Glass board and some patience do the job


Milling the spring material to right thickness


Then I use my special fixture to mill the width so it fits nice in the handle.


Spring is ready for location and heat treat


Raw cut from bandsaw, fits snuggely


Heat treat the spring 2 cycles at 900 celcius 1 cycle of temper, rwl34 makes a good spring on this process.


Spring in place


Blade roughly adapted to location, missing some parts so final location is on hold.


Slot finished for next part.


Pivot is ready from this side, more job on the other liner


Pivot pushed in place, secured to keep it from rotating


 
nice work!
not much time for the forum these days, but I wanted you to know I appreciate watching this project unfold :)
Thanks!
 
I am truly enjoying this WIP. I love how it's coming out!
I haven't even seen the end result yet, and I'm pretty sure I want one!!
 
Milling down another part for the lock system



Adjusting the spring for the hidden button



A lot of geometry goes into this build and mechanics



I set my mill for repeatable operations, I believe in take things slowly and steady. One more time than ruin it on first try.



Checking for cleareance and planing next parts



Both open and closed position is now good

 
Time to do bolsters


This handle will have straight dovetail lines on bolsters meeting up with mammoth scales. I use a filing guide I made for this job.


Checking the symmetry with a parallel


Here is the first stage of dovetails


Last stage for dovetail is done on a tempered 1 inch glass platten that is dead on.


Finished at 1200 grit, also the dovetail get a jeweled finish when final work coming up, every surface and dimensions of my knives gets the same attention. Inside is equally nice to the outside.


3 more to go, after this I superglue and transfer undersized holes. No screw visible on the outside
 
Thank you guys for comment and feedback. I just replied direct here, don't find the tag for each one.

/Glenn
 
Dovetails done on front bolsters


Parallel


Symmetry view


Undersized holes next, from liners to bolsters


"Starting" to look like a knife
 
Sentered spot drill in the bolsters, next task room to lock in the mechanics.


Some small mill work for next pictures








To be continued


 
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Time to make the button, revealed the pattern so I can find a similar piece.


Material that match the hole found, this will be tricky but fun job.


Roughly marked and with guiding holes, ready for the roundtable.


Pocket milled on the pivot screw side bolster


Shaping the pivot screw


All messy :P to be continued very soon.
 
Button ready for shaping


Just flat sanded to see if it holds my tolerances, seems good so far


Tuned in the backside and it fit nicely against liner and mechanics.


Flush tested


Button will be flush with the contoured handle, but for now this is just for testing to show tolerances


Hides nicely


Profiling bolsters


Profiled




Time to filework spine and blade








Filework finished, liners get filework later in build




 
Parts is ready for HT, will come back with updates soon. I will ship the parts to Damasteel on this build cause honestly I won't risk warping on small parts like the backspacer. This is all damascus only liners that are in Titanium.

Ensured that the pattern match up also before shipment
 
man, what impressive skill. This has been terrific so far!
 
Just a short video of filework, hope quality of vid is good enough


Filework


Here's me(and ya Stan in the background)


Better picture of the button, the pattern is very random so this match up was approved


Disassembled the knife, this is a map for every screw


All the little parts on this build


Parts ready for HT
 
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