Hello, , sorry if I am posting in the wrong section, but I am recent knife collector and college engineering student out from Washington State. As a student, I don't have very much money to spend on knives, but I try to pick up pick up quality products, because I realized crap knives like M-Techs are not fun to use, not fun to take apart, and feel really crappy in my hands. So far, I have:
Knives:
CRKT M16-01KZ (Plain edge)
Kershaw Leek (Stainless Steel)
Buck Vantage Pro
Spyderco Centofante 3
Benchmade 940 (Plain edge)
Benchmade 580 Barrage (Plain edge, uncoated)
Multitool:
Leatherman Micra
SAK:
Swisschamp (White scales, bought in Switzerland on vacation
)
Tinker (Red scales)
Anyways, I'm not sure if this is the right part of the forum, but I was thinking of building myself a titanium framelock with a reverse tanto blade like the BM 940 (I love that blade shape). I was wondering how hard it would be for me to put together a basic knife? I'm learning how to use a mill, lathe, and water jet cutter at my university, so I'm guessing I can cut out the frames and blade on the water jet and use the mill for the drilling and threading, but I do not know how to grind blades.
Does anyone know someone who could grind my blade for me? Preferably in the Seattle/Bellingham area would be real helpful.
Also, would paying a bit of money to get my parts heat treated by Paul Bos at the Buck factory be worth my money?
Sorry about my long first post, but does anybody also know someone who could heat strengthen the titanium I am using for the frame? I've heard that it is pretty much good to go untreated, but I would rather have some extra toughness if I could.
Again, sorry about my long post, but thanks for reading, and I'm glad to be a part of this forum, thanks. (I'll try to post pictures of my collection later, not exactly sure how to do that right now)
Edit: I know that the titanium framelock seems really ambitious for a beginner, but I'm not sure when I'll have access to the mill, lathe, or water jet after this quarter, and I feel like I probably enjoy something I put a lot of time and effort into making my own.
Knives:
CRKT M16-01KZ (Plain edge)
Kershaw Leek (Stainless Steel)
Buck Vantage Pro
Spyderco Centofante 3
Benchmade 940 (Plain edge)
Benchmade 580 Barrage (Plain edge, uncoated)
Multitool:
Leatherman Micra
SAK:
Swisschamp (White scales, bought in Switzerland on vacation
)Tinker (Red scales)
Anyways, I'm not sure if this is the right part of the forum, but I was thinking of building myself a titanium framelock with a reverse tanto blade like the BM 940 (I love that blade shape
). I was wondering how hard it would be for me to put together a basic knife? I'm learning how to use a mill, lathe, and water jet cutter at my university, so I'm guessing I can cut out the frames and blade on the water jet and use the mill for the drilling and threading, but I do not know how to grind blades. Does anyone know someone who could grind my blade for me? Preferably in the Seattle/Bellingham area would be real helpful.
Also, would paying a bit of money to get my parts heat treated by Paul Bos at the Buck factory be worth my money?
Sorry about my long first post, but does anybody also know someone who could heat strengthen the titanium I am using for the frame? I've heard that it is pretty much good to go untreated, but I would rather have some extra toughness if I could.
Again, sorry about my long post, but thanks for reading, and I'm glad to be a part of this forum, thanks. (I'll try to post pictures of my collection later, not exactly sure how to do that right now)
Edit: I know that the titanium framelock seems really ambitious for a beginner, but I'm not sure when I'll have access to the mill, lathe, or water jet after this quarter, and I feel like I probably enjoy something I put a lot of time and effort into making my own.
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