Ken Erickson Knives: A Retrospective

Great looking knife, Ken. I'm sure someone's going to be a lucky so and so when he gets a hold of that one.
 
Wow! Tip bolsters on a custom knife, I love it. I have seen a lot of vintage knives that have cracks around the pivot pins because the they weren't covered by the bolsters, how did you work around that?

Other than the main blade, it looks similar to the Henckels based one you built a while back?
 
Looks perfect! What else can be said?? Love old Remington patterns. Somebody is
going to be extremely happy. Congrats...

Jason
 
Mike Robuck said:
Wow! Tip bolsters on a custom knife, I love it. I have seen a lot of vintage knives that have cracks around the pivot pins because the they weren't covered by the bolsters, how did you work around that?

Other than the main blade, it looks similar to the Henckels based one you built a while back?
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Mike,
I was concerned also about tip bolsters. Being dressed in stag (relatively tough stuff) and spun pins versus peened pins gave me the confidence to go ahead. The spun pins exert a squeezing force versus more of a wedging affect. I would be willing to bet most of the vintage knives with cracks had peened pins.

I am not sure if this is the knife your thinking about? If it is , you have a better memory than mine! :)
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ken erickson said:
Mike,
I was concerned also about tip bolsters. Being dressed in stag (relatively tough stuff) and spun pins versus peened pins gave me the confidence to go ahead. The spun pins exert a squeezing force versus more of a wedging affect. I would be willing to bet most of the vintage knives with cracks had peened pins.

I am not sure if this is the knife your thinking about? If it is , you have a better memory than mine! :)
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"dog leg" right on that page. Sometimes my observations really are, "DUH" moments :o

Ken,

Do you normally do spun pins or peened? I am just wondering, I have noticed on some of my different knives the pins look different.

From the sounds of it spun pins are a more controlled way to evenly wedge the knife together. Are there other advantages?

When looking at an assembled knife that the pins have not been finished smooth on is there a way to tell?

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For example is that pin spun or peened?
 
Kevin,

I will spin pins on bone and stag, peen on scale material that is smooth.

Here is a link to this discussion in Bernard Levine's forum that you may find of interest.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...dle-pins-vs-hammered-pins?highlight=spun+pins

Your Northfield's scale pin is most certainly spun. When you look at vintage knives it sometimes is pretty evident that the pins have been peened. They actually can look quite crude.
 
Wow that's a beauty! I love the tip bolsters and that stag is gorgeous. It looks like that knife just came off an old Sheffield Cutlers bench.
 
Yes, very good read, thanks Ken! Learn, learn, learn, that's all I have done since I have found this forum :)
 
Peregrin said:
Wow that's a beauty! I love the tip bolsters and that stag is gorgeous. It looks like that knife just came off an old Sheffield Cutlers bench.
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Thanks for the kind comment Gary. Some days it feels as if it came off of an old Waupaca cutlers bench! ;):eek:
 
Thanks for the comments on the serpentine pen guys!

Here is a little knife also out of the same Remington C5 catalog.

Based on a 7343 that comes in at 3 1/8 closed. This knife features a corkscrew, sleeveboard frame, long pull on the master. Challenging and interesting build. As I had nothing to pattern this knife except the photo I ended making a few backsprings for the pen and corkscrew. Turns out it has more twists and turns than a good mystery novel!

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Roland,

Yep, that's the knife! Thanks for posting it here.

I had a chance to work on the little sleeveboard this weekend. This one was a tough knife to make on many levels. At only 3 1/8 closed length it features a corkscrew, master spear blade and pen blade. These little pen blades are difficult to grind. The swedge ends up being close to a third of the total width of the blade(.240). I also coined/milled the center liner between the blades. Coining such as this is very subtle compared to file work.

Comments and critique more than welcome.
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In hand shot, my daughter's hand not mine! :D
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