How to make loveless, bolts

JTknives

JTknives

Blade Heat Treating www.jarodtodd.com
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Its time to finnish the green knife that you all have most likley seen pictures of. but the handle was not secure with just glue. And hidden pins where out because i could not remove the scales, thay would not buge. so i needed to pin them on, but i wanted to use loveless bolts but did not have any. so i made some :rolleyes:. the building connected to my work is a fastenal store. so i poped in and after some chit chat (thay come over when we break out the BBQ) i snaged 2 8-32 x 1" long stainless steel bolts and 4 stainless steel nuts. I then went back to the shop and put all 4 nuts on one bolt. then i put the part of the bolt that did not have nuts in the lathes collet. I turned down all the nuts at once to 5/16" DI. and thay worked like a charm. I put the knife in a vice and drilled out the through holes and then counter bored them with an end mill .115 deep. Man thay work nice and to think it onley cost me a buck for it all. The nice thing is that it thay take a hex wrench to tighten. i think im switching over to making them insted of buying them from now on. tomarow i will glue everything in place and grind the bolts flush to the handle. What do you think.


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i will keep you posted
 
thats going to be a good looking knife. i need to cut the g10 that i have. i'm suprised that with the equipment you have access to you're not making corby bolts so there wont be any thread ends showing. you could spit them out with the right setup.
 
I have made Loveless style bolts like that too. Pretty cheap and easy to make a very secure fastener :)
 
i have been thinking of doing some cobys
 
What do you plan to do with the gap the threads leave? Maybe grind them long and peen them down?
Lynn
 
I like corbys better because the threads dont show. The $5 cost per knife is worth it to me.
 
I never understood the pull of Loveless bolts. Maybe someone can tell me why I'm missing the point. Don't you run into a problem with both nuts round? How do you really tighten them up. I found them to be a stressful fastner during glueup. Corby's, if you do a dry fit, are just so nice and easy to tighten. Save me a clamp too.

Also, there is the threads showing thing Mr. Bump mentioned. That always got me too, but I chocked that up to style differences.
 
Well andy the pull comes from there being a nut on each end of the handle and the bolt pulles them togather ;) thaw tighten down very easyly with a turn of the allen wrench
 
They look good JT, just like store bought. :thumbup: On the other hand, I think with the initial $1.00 investment plus the $20.00 or so in time you spent making them you would probably be farther ahead to buy them.

Brad
www.AndersonKnives.ca
 
JTknives said:
Well andy the pull comes from there being a nut on each end of the handle and the bolt pulles them togather ;) thaw tighten down very easyly with a turn of the allen wrench
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Well, I understand wanting a fastner, rather than a pin. But my question was more about how you tighten them. Doesn't the round nut just spin as you tighten it? Thats the experience I had anyway. Thats why I switched to Corby's. With a screwdriver in each side you can hold one still while you tighten the other.

I wasn't trying to assail your methods. Merely trying to understand what I missed.

BTW, pretty handle bro.
 
Fiddleback said:
Well, I understand wanting a fastner, rather than a pin. But my question was more about how you tighten them. Doesn't the round nut just spin as you tighten it? Thats the experience I had anyway. Thats why I switched to Corby's. With a screwdriver in each side you can hold one still while you tighten the other.

I wasn't trying to assail your methods. Merely trying to understand what I missed.

BTW, pretty handle bro.
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I was playing around with you. mine dont spin very much at al. you just put your finger one one net and put your allen wrench one the other side and tighten it up. once it gets a tad snug it does not spin at all. because i used a lathe to turn the nuts down there is a little small bur on the ends that grip into the handle material and lock them in place.

I just made a bunch at work today and i posted them in the forsale section.
 
Not sure what the price difference is, but the supply houses sell them awful cheap so it might be hard to compete and make it worth your time.
 
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