My new JK Friction Folder WIP/ Done!

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Above is John's pic from when he was ready to ship. First things first I had to decide on a handle shape. I decided to use the slabs from a dis assembled Buck 112 Ecolite as a starting point.
This next pic shows the first two pins ( temporary ) and the cuts that I needed to make to the tang to get clearance and stop when closing the knife.




The next pics show the blade in the open position and the corresponding handle slab. Everything is still in the rough, and I have some more TFAR engineering to do...









It doesn't look like much yet, but will keep you guys posted on my progress if anyone cares to see it come together.


Thanks for looking.
 
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[It doesn't look like much yet, but will keep you guys posted on my progress if anyone cares to see it come together.]


Would definitely like to see it come together!
I've been toying with the idea of building a fricky since getting my XL from John.
How did you cut the notch?
 
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mykel m said:
How did you cut the notch?
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Very carefully! :D


I mounted my dremel in the work station perpendicular, and used a cut off wheel to very slowly and carefully cut the notch, then put in a diamond drum bit, and held a wet sponge on the bit to clean up the grind. Finish sanded by hand.



Now I have the butt spacer fabricated from aluminum, and the handles are roughed in.











Going to chop off some of the butt spacer, then glue and pin the back side together...all future sanding will be done by hand until the buffing stage.
time for supper now:)
 
Looking good,thanks for the reply.
How does the wet sponge help?Keep it cool or remove chips?
Sorry,trying to wrap my brain around the wet sponge,I've never heard of using one while grinding.
 
Mykel, in my mind it keeps the bit cool as well as the steel. The spinning bit picks up water from the sponge and carries it through the cut.
 
Never seen a WIP with a friction folder, consider me glued to the screen!

thanks for the picture, it's looking great so far :)
 
sitflyer said:
Mykel, in my mind it keeps the bit cool as well as the steel. The spinning bit picks up water from the sponge and carries it through the cut.
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Sounds like a darn good idea to me,those little bits do get to spinning fast & create a lot of heat,thanks for the tip.
 
Trying to show this in real time, so here is where I wound up so far. The butt spacer was glued in place to the slabs in two steps, using guide pins to keep everything lined up. Next step was to cut the three butt pins to length after roughing them up, coat with glue and drive them home. Each pin is then flared by peening and then filed smooth to the slabs.
Then I filed and sanded the excess spacer material flush to the frame...

















Oops!, I will need to do a bit of metal removal from the tang area to match the finger cut out ^




It is starting to feel like a knife :)
 
That is great!

I like how it is shaping up - you have a great talent for this stuff, Duane!

Thank you for the WIP pictures.

best

mqqn
 
Thanks for keeping us current. :)

I was wondering about what I was seeing in this picture....
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Should'a known you were on it!

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Oops!, I will need to do a bit of metal removal from the tang area to match the finger cut out ^


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Excellent! :thumbup:

~ P.
 
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