My two latest pocket knives

[Jason Fry]

I have been making a few slip joint pocket knives lately while I was in between batches of fixed blade stuff. Both are 154 CM stainless with jigged bone. Red one is small, 3" closed. The double bolstered one is bigger, 4 1/8" closed. Now it is back to the fixed blades for a while.

 

[Brumby53]

Very Nice slick work Jason:thumbup: I have been fiddling (in a minor way) with slippys myself and now know just how much work goes into getting them right.
Like these two a lot!
Derek

 

[Cory Hess]

I agree, very nice looking knives. I really like the trapper with the lanyard tube through the bolster. You don't see that much, and it's a nice touch.

 

[Jason Fry]

I'm not getting much traction on these. Serious critiques welcome. Something I missed?

 

[Peter Parker]

Very nice and the bone for me is certainly some pretty bone eye candy! The trapper to me looks like a saddlehorn trapper with a lanyard. The other knife looks like mule skinner jack what ever they are I like them!

 

[ConBon]

Man that little bolster-less one is a beauty! Only critique I could offer on it is maybe make sure to keep the grind straight on the edge near tang, and a bit bigger nail nick? I would buy it as is if I had money to spend

Connor

 

[RobertK]

Very nice. I really dig that first one.

 

[Peregrin]

That 4 1/8" Trapper looks very nice!

 

[r redden]

I like them a lot are these your first two slipjoints?

 

[SadSappySucker]

I'm not getting much traction on these. Serious critiques welcome. Something I missed?

All in all they look great. I love the colors of the bone on both.
however, something looks a little off on the blade to handle proportions. On the top one I think it would look better if you hadn't have flared out the butt of the handle quite so much, or left the top of the handle a little fuller and slightly increased the height of the clip blade. The overall transition/ flow(for lack of a better word) seems a bit to drastic.
On the other one the nic definitely could be a little larger. Also, it looks like you could've left the blade a little "fuller" towards the bottom. Then add a swedge and it would be good to go. :thumbup:

 

[Jason Fry]

I like them a lot are these your first two slipjoints?

I think they're my 23rd and 24th. All one-offs, freehanded. May need to stick to proven designs, or spend some time in another guy's shop. So far it's all been internet, trial, and error, with a few phone consultations thrown in.

I agree with everybody on the nail nick. Ended up grinding off more of it than I wanted to.

Still struggling with the flow concept on the folders, and struggling to get the blade/handle ratio looking right. Can get it right on a fixed blade, but I've made nearly 400 of those

 

[WuGod]

I'm not getting much traction on these. Serious critiques welcome. Something I missed?

I like them both, a lot. But- cutting grind on the big one looks uneven, and the primary grind on the lil one looks like it goes different directions, right near the pivot the grind looks like it runs parallel to the spine, grinds on the blade run perpendicular. All grinds IMHO should run perpendicular. Dye on the little one is a little pink for my taste too.
And I went to your website, and couldn't figure out a way to buy any of your knives. I think that might be a bigger problem than anything with your knives, which despite my critiques, I think are awesome.

 

[dpowers311]

On the smaller knife the tang look to big for the blade. Pin placement does not look balanced or even on the ends. The larger knife something about the angled bolster draws my attention. Not sure if it would be better if it was rotated around or made so the blade side was larger so the insides of both bolsters were parallel instead of the lines crossing (hope that makes since). Might just be how I see things.

By traction you mean not a lot of interest?

Both knives look great and what I commented above probably would not stop me from owning one of them if it is what I was looking for.

Dave

 

[Ryouchijtx]

I think they're my 23rd and 24th. All one-offs, freehanded. May need to stick to proven designs, or spend some time in another guy's shop. So far it's all been internet, trial, and error, with a few phone consultations thrown in.

I agree with everybody on the nail nick. Ended up grinding off more of it than I wanted to.

Still struggling with the flow concept on the folders, and struggling to get the blade/handle ratio looking right. Can get it right on a fixed blade, but I've made nearly 400 of those

I'd consider spending some time in another slipjoint maker's shop and learning from them with proven set designs and patterns.
Often times for myself I prefer consistency in designs rather than having one-offs.
To be consistent in size, blade to handle proportion and reproduction of every little detail speaks alot for me on the skill in a custom maker's work.

There are alot of slipjoint makers in TX. These are better than anything I could come up with but many makers start out with micarta shadows until they've the basics down.

The blades are ground down far more than I'd like height wise. The proportions are a bit off from handle to the blade. The edge on the clip is quite un-even for my tastes and the pivot on the jigged bone shadow sits quite far back than I'd like / when the blade is in the half stop it looks quite even with the tang being so far back.