Making Three Slipjoints at Once WIP

David Schott

David Schott

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Hello!

This thread will be a WIP for three slipjoints i"ve been working on.

All three will have CPM154 blades, stainless liners, dovetailed bolsters and synthetic handles.

Lets cut to the chase and get to the pics!

Here are all three profiled out and layed for general fitting:
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Here is one with a bushing on a little pattern used to ensure the spring sits flush in all positions:
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Blades getting cleaned up pre-HT:
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Blades in their liners just after HT and tempering (testing spring)
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Blades cleaned up and in liners:
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Next post coming.....
 
Continued....

Here is the first set of dovetailed bolsters all soldered up. I am not good at this..what a pain!
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Skipping some steps without pictures, here are all the parts layed out for the three. I have now dovetailed and soldered all bolsters, and glued up handles. I am using synthetic ivory, burgundy micarta and black/white micarta:
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All three fitted up:
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All three with nail nicks ground and makers mark etched...getting close now!
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I'll continue this tonight/tomorrow! These will be 100% done by end of week!
 
It's great to see the WIP David! Those are gonna be some sweet lookin slippies! I really like the way the handles are looking!:thumbup:
 
Well these three are now almost done! They are at about 90% finished but are all assembled and looking good! Overall I am thrilled with how they came out!

Here are the pics:
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Awesome job! I love seeing the process of making a knife. Thanks! :)

Is that red and black looking for a home?
 
Thanks for showing us your 3 knives an they came out,, pretty good , the more you make , the better they will get as time goes by. Joe
 
Nice, I like them all, but the one with the syn. ivory is my favorite. Been thinking about trying some. What is your opinion on it?
 
Beautiful knives and they have great curves. Thanks for showing us these and how you went about them!
 
Thanks for the kind comments everyone! These are slipjoints # 5,6 and 7 for me but represent a significant quality jump over my prior ones. These are pretty much 100% flush in all positions, no blade play at all, tips are centered in liners, liners are relieved, etc etc. I figure by #10 I'll be settling into these better...quite a steep learning curve!

After years of fixed blades, these are a real change. The sheer amount of ways to screw them up is staggering!

Vege-Taco, I'll PM you...can't talk about sales on the gallery forum.

Darrin, This is "ivory paper micarta" not the material advertised as synthetic ivory, so there may be some difference. This stuff initially polishes up to a nice mirror finish, but with use quickly turns into a really appealing eggshell smooth finish that I love. I've used it on quite a few knives lately. Its pretty unforgiving in terms of buffing and really likes a light buff. Heavy buffing leaves a finish that I don't like and causes some smearing. Like 99% of all knife materials, if finished properly before buffing, it only requires a light pass on a loose wheel to take a mirror polish.

Once I get them all finished and have a chance to get them into some proper lighting, I'll post some final pics.
 
Very nice David, keep up the good work. - :thumbup:

And as Joe said - It takes time to get these down...... ;):)

Todd



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Very cool, thanks for sharing. Maybe it's just me but I think the pictorial history of the knife while in progress adds value to the particular piece.
Nice work!
 
great work, i especially like the burgundy micarta one...and I'm normally a fan of lighter handles on slippies.
 
Absolutely beautiful!!! Thank you for the WIP pics. I love to see how it is done.
Those are incredible in that they have a classic beauty and are instantly recognizable as yours.
Nicely done sir.
 
Mr Schott,

I have been looking for a black/ orange Micarta for a long time. Would you mind telling where you got that Micarta from? Your work is really impressive. I especially like the fluted bolsters, it really sets the bolsters off.

Thank you,
Chris
 
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