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Hi All,
The first custom is coming along. I had to spend a lot of time making jigs to make sure I achieved the accuracy I wanted. Also had to weight for all the tools and bits I needed to arrive.
I finished the contouring of the handles, CB & final profiling.
Blade was hardened and then tempering (s90v).
Detent installed and in the process of cutting the lockbar.
I'll be doing the lockface fitting next, then blade grind, backspacer and clip. Finally, I'll be doing a black titanium eggshell texture & copper wash the blade. I'm looking at next week to finish this.
I wanted to thank everyone for all the support, I'm also surprised I've had more than 30 people commit to ordering a custom, even though I will not be at an adequate level to charge money for a knife for a few years. I won't take orders or sale a knife until I am at a somewhat decent level, but progress is going great. Thanks All!
I glued 2 handles together to do the final profiling, it came out really great for matching each side. I found that using my stock tool rest, had a 1-2 degree angle on it, I bought a omni-directional tilting tool rest, digital angle finder. After calibrating everything to perfect perpendicularity, the profiling went easy. It's hard to tell that they are 2 handles.
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The first custom is coming along. I had to spend a lot of time making jigs to make sure I achieved the accuracy I wanted. Also had to weight for all the tools and bits I needed to arrive.
I finished the contouring of the handles, CB & final profiling.
Blade was hardened and then tempering (s90v).
Detent installed and in the process of cutting the lockbar.
I'll be doing the lockface fitting next, then blade grind, backspacer and clip. Finally, I'll be doing a black titanium eggshell texture & copper wash the blade. I'm looking at next week to finish this.
I wanted to thank everyone for all the support, I'm also surprised I've had more than 30 people commit to ordering a custom, even though I will not be at an adequate level to charge money for a knife for a few years. I won't take orders or sale a knife until I am at a somewhat decent level, but progress is going great. Thanks All!
I glued 2 handles together to do the final profiling, it came out really great for matching each side. I found that using my stock tool rest, had a 1-2 degree angle on it, I bought a omni-directional tilting tool rest, digital angle finder. After calibrating everything to perfect perpendicularity, the profiling went easy. It's hard to tell that they are 2 handles.
