new knife build

kungfumo

kungfumo

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Figured I hadnt done a build up on here so here you go.

First the messy a$$ shop:barf:
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The plazma
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The sander, this thing works great for radius's.
drill press
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The loot and then the man drill press:D
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Cut outs
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Next batch
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Now for the knife I'm working on, this is after I cut it out with the plazma, then ground off the kerf with a 4.5" grinder. I then put it into my cheap plunge cut jig.
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Then cover the edge with paint pen, and scribe the middle.
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Then start grindin
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Took it down to 320 grit then hand finish later
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More later
 
Thanks guys, I dont have much time to work on them during the week days but I will keep it up when I do work on it.
 
I just like the fact that your shop is almost as messy as mine :D

Cool-lookin' blade designs... keep us posted.
 
looks like you cleaned up to me . Lol. dude keep showing stuff i just learned a bunch from seeing a couple things you do.
 
Thanks a bunch guys. I'm still working on the drill press, that thing is huge pushin about 1200 lbs:D Got to get a new motor and some leather belts for it.
 
that design is awesome. i think we would like to see some of your finished stuff, thanks

where do you get those belts?

they look like 6x48, if so i cant find'em anywhere.
 
Thanks I will post some more pics, I usually put them in the pic forum.

The belts are 6x48, I get the belts from western tool supply here in Olympia.
 
got some more done tonight. I forgot to show how I got the handles situated at first.
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Started by cutting out the ruff shape of the handle and then I put a couple of dot of super glue on the handles and then bound then together. Different knife but same gist.
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I then used a huge bastard round file to cut the shape I wanted into the slabs.
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I usually use alum pins but I decided that brass would look better in the application, and allot smaller pins too. The handles are not glued on yet, just a little bit of super glue to hold them on. I still need to finish sand and send out for HT.
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Always be sure to chamfer the holes so you don't get cracks during HT
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got this one done the other day, still needs HT though, hell of a sanding job:grumpy: I oil sanded it down to 500 grit. When I get it back from HT I will take it to 1200-1500 grit and polish it up:D should turn out tits
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Love the way you do the handle, looks like it would feel really nice in the hand.
Chris
 
Sorry for the delay on posting more pics:) been busy.

I started hand sanding the blade down then got side tracked with profiling a few more blades, the ended up finished 3 more:rolleyes: I should have it finish sanded and ready for HT this weekend if I dont drink to much green beer:D
 
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