Ken Erickson Knives: A Retrospective

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I have the Ebony rough profiled and ready to attach to the frames.

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I use Gorilla glue and spring clamps. I clamp to frame and scale onto a hardened straight parallel. I use the glue more as a
aid in building the knife, rather than a means to attach the scale. The scale pins and spring pins will hold the material.

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While the glue is setting up I use this fixture to refine,cut my choils.

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The scales on this knife are tapered so the holes must be drilled from the inside out. This is my simple set-up for getting this job done.

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I use this hand held tapered reamer to taper the hole in the scale material. This prevents splitting of the material at a later date(hopefully! :eek:).

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Really starting to shape up now!
 
Perfect fit, Bolster looks great! That slant makes
it come together nicely. Doesn't get much better than that....


Jason
 
Thank you for taking the time to do this Ken.

Only problem is are ya really gonna send that to Campbell. :D (just kidding)
 
Thanks for all the work with these WIP pics - it's like peeking over your shoulder :)
 
Discussed the shield or in this case lack of a shield with Campbell this morning. The Remington R971 was produced without a shield and in keeping with that We both decided to delete a shield on this knife. I personally think it was a good choice. This knife follows the lines of the Remington pretty close and with the slanted, threaded and fluted bolsters there is plenty of eye candy.

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Getting ready to pin the scales.

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While some will use a cuttlers anvil I use a hardened machinists vee block.

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After the pins are peened I dress them down , flatten the inside frames on my platten.

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This is one of the areas that is not fun to finish. Lots of hand sanding.

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I like to finish the inside frames to a 600 grit or better.

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I have the frames peened together, just awaiting the blade.

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Electro-etching my mark on the blade

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Peening the pivot pin is one of the hardest jobs, and also the point of no return!

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The pivot pin is set, blade centers perfectly, good walk and talk. Now on to the finish work, which is a lot of hand work, some belt work. I did not photo document this as its pretty tedious and slow work. I do have the knife finished and will be taking a better set of pictures of it and posting her this afternoon.

Thanks again for all the kind comments and following along!
 
Awesome work, Ken! (Why am I not surprised?) :thumbup::cool:
 
That is spectacular. Thank you so much for taking us along for the ride.
 
Beautiful knife, Ken. I think the choice of no shield was right for the knife -- lot's of beautiful smooth ebony against the fluted bolsters. I wondered how you put the etch on your blade. Thank you for posting the WIP!
 
Awesome job, Ken!

I have to say that this is the most interesting thread I have ever followed on this or any other forum.

Thank you so much for sharing this with us, Ken.
 
Stunning knife from one good guy to another. Hard to beat that combination.
 
All I can say is Wow!!!!

You boys better get your orders in with Ken cuz after people see this one, Ken's list is gonna back-up to like 10 years.......
 
Campbell, you are a lucky man!
And Ken, you are a talented and generous one!
Thanks for the wonderful trip down knifemakers lane!!
 
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