Krinking blades

[John L]

Are most blades krinked(bent to fit the frame) in multiple blade knives such as a sowbewlly, congress, etc? Or are some just ground on left or right sides to slide in next to each other? Or.....? Might anyone have a brief list of knives that require krinking and those that do not? Thanks. The above thread on the sowbelly class got me wondering.

 

[comoha]

Interesting question.
My A.G. Russell Scout's main blade is so bent it's a challenge to sharpen evenly.

 

[waynorth]

You just have to look down into the knife, and open and close the blades, to see a crink.
And an offset grind is self evident.
The same model can be crinked differently, to cause the opposing blades to close in a different order.
I think a list is not easily done, and likely a frustrating, possibly foolish endeavor.

 

[yablanowitz]

Any list would have to be by make, model and year. The number of springs used plays a major part. I used to think all stockman pattern knives would have crinked blades until I saw a three spring stockman.

 

[A. G. Russell]

Any list would have to be by make, model and year. The number of springs used plays a major part. I used to think all stockman pattern knives would have crinked blades until I saw a three spring stockman.

A three spring stockman should have five blades and four of them should be krinked.

 

[cnas122]

T. Bose Whittler

 

[A. G. Russell]

All right, Tony, only two are krinked! What a fantastic job. Please show us the rest of the knife.

 

[cnas122]

 

[cnas122]

Another 5 blader...K. Erickson

Side by Side

 

[jivedaddy]

Ken Erickson congress-this pattern usually has crinked blades

 

[Dr Bill]

T. Bose Whittler

OK, now I'm confused - which is easy to do. I'm seeing two different things here.

The two blades on the left have small relief cuts to allow for the adjacent blades.

The two secondary blades on the right are deviated toward the master blade, again to allow room for the adjacent blades.

Which one is a 'krink'? And what is the other called?
I think you should send that one this way so I can take a closer look!

 

[Ruple Knives]

On my multi-blades I use a combination of offset grinds and krinking. Also blade swedges add to clearance between blades. As an example on my 5 blade sowbelly the two blades either side of the main center blade are offset ground and krinked toward the main blade. The two blades on the other end are not krinked but are heavily offset ground. They lay straight down the outside liners. In the old days the knife manufacturers didn`t worry much about blade clearance. If they closed it was ok. In modern customs it is much different. Most folks don`t like to see rub marks on blades. Hope this helps.
Bill Ruple

 

[cnas122]

Here are some closeups

Against a straight edge

 

[Dr Bill]

Thanks Bill & Campbell!
This place is great!

 

[rprocter]

Campbell, you have a fine collection of custom folders. i would like to see a group pic of all of them. maybe as a new thread which others could add to so we could see what each other has ?
roland