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Tom Anderson

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Just in case you were wondering where those G-10 overlays with the abalone dots went............

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This is my Mohawk Frame-Lock with an engine turned and anodized titanium frame and selectively etched S30V blade.

Here's the back side.......

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I hope you like it! :)
 
I like it very much! what a great combination of materials and presentation. The tutorial was simple and easy to grasp and that is a necessity for some of us idiots. Great job! Terry
 
now that is a beautiful knife.....great work Tom....
 
Robert:

The blade was hand rubbed to a 3-0 emery finish and then partially masked with a spray glue resist. It was submerged in ferric chloride and, after a brief soak in a vingar and distilled water solution, I used acetone to remove the glue. Last, I rubbed it down with WD-40 and paper towels until the paper towels picked up no more gray oxide.

You can get a similar effect using paint as a resist. ;)
 
Thanks, Bruce. :)

I took the photos right on the workbench, so they're not the best. But, If you look real close you can see the rainbow anodizing in each of the three slots in the pocket clip. I did this to compliment the abalone dots in the overlays. ;)

Here's a close-up of the clip.....

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Way cool, eye catching and looks real funtional to boot! What did you use for a resist?
 
Tom that's great! If I may ask, how did you hold the liners down for turning? I'll let someone else ask how you did the multiple anodizing... :D

Dave
 
Tom, that's one of the hottest folders I've ever seen :eek:

Most of the selectively etched blades I've seen don't flow very well. Yours jumps out very bold, but doesn't overwhelm the knife.

The blue anodizing over the jeweling along with the inlays is just flat beautiful. What a color scheme!

Double WOW!!! :)

Nick
 
Hey Tom,
You have got way too much time on your hands. But seriously,
beautiful knife. I can't wait to see more. Just too cool. Ed
 
William:

I used spray glue for the resist.

Dave:

I held the frame on a piece of channel with a clamp, then placed it in my milling machine vise.

The slots in the clip were first anodized with a brush, setting the power supply at the various voltages for each pass and dragging the brush in progressively shorter strokes in each slot as I went along. You want to be careful not to make the brush too wet with electrolyte. ;) This gives you the blue to pink rainbow effect.

Here's a photo of the first pass with the brush:

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Afterwards, you just sand off the top of the titanium and dip the whole thing at lower voltage to get the dark blue. :)

Eddie:

Thanks! ;)
 
Tom, thanks for the lessons. I showed this knife to my boss at work today, don't be surprized if you hear from him. (Some day I'll graduate to folders too! :D )

Dave
 
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