New swell end.....

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Brian.Evans

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.... ..in process!

I thought maybe you all would like to see what I'm working on right now. This isn't going to be a work in progress thread or anything, but I know you all like to see before and after shots.

Parts laid out on the steel. I really need to buy some layout dye.
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The desert iron wood for the scales.
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This is my quality engineer trying to be sneaky with one of daddy's pieces of steel. I think he's testing the carbon content?
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He does have a history of checking out my projects though.
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Parts cut and partially profiled.
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The next pictures will hopefully be of a finished knife. Liners and bolsters and pins will be nickel silver. I'm thinking barehead. Maybe not, but I think so.
 
Great pics! I have a couple of those quality engineers around here too, except they're now bigger than I am :D

Looking forward to seeing the completed knife :thumbup:

Griff
 
Your young lad looks like an old pro inspecting a knife at a knife show :D Great picture.

Best regards

Robin
 
Thanks for all the nice comments gentlemen. If there it's one thing I love more than any thing else, it's being a dad. Best thing ever.

Bigfattyt said:
So cool! I wish I had the tools and skill to make slip joints!
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Trevor, you have the skill. It's a learned skill, but everyone can learn to do it. All you would NEED tools wise would be files, a vise, a hacksaw, and a drill press. I only have a bandsaw, 2x42 grinder, drill press and files. Grab a copy of Don Robinson's book "Slipjoints My Way". It is a great book, even if you never make a knife, I think you'd enjoy reading it.
 
I think I might go with jigged bone instead of that iron wood. I have this really nice set of covers in my box. What do you think?
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The one on the left has a very pleasing warm tone to it. As much as I like the jigging on the right, that warm color really gets me.
 
bwperdue said:
The one on the left has a very pleasing warm tone to it. As much as I like the jigging on the right, that warm color really gets me.
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I should have been more specific. It is the same piece. The coloring process turns the bone black. Once you grind or sand the bone a bit, it reveals the color. So it will be the warm orange color, with black left in the jigged areas.
 
medicevans said:
I should have been more specific. It is the same piece. The coloring process turns the bone black. Once you grind or sand the bone a bit, it reveals the color. So it will be the warm orange color, with black left in the jigged areas.
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In that case...bone all the way! I really like warm color on it, reminds me of the CSC Smooth Sunset Bone, which is really pretty stuff
 
medicevans said:
I should have been more specific. It is the same piece. The coloring process turns the bone black. Once you grind or sand the bone a bit, it reveals the color. So it will be the warm orange color, with black left in the jigged areas.
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Oh, duh! :black_eyed: That makes sense. In that case, yeah, that bone all the way - you get the jigging and the neat warm color. (Although I think I'd still like to see something made with the smooth orange bone - that's and eye catching color, especially with the darker patches in it.
 
Brian, that´s gonna be a cool knife, for sure :)

Thanks for posting the pics, really great.

I´d go for bone, too. It has a nicely character.

I´m looking forward seeing the knife, when the work is done.

EDIT: Off Topic: Brian - please check your emails, I sent you one ;)
 
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Wow, I'm impressed with your ability to take a project from design to production. Can't wait to see the finished knife.

BTW, bone is the way to go on this one!
 
Looking good! How is the EO project coming and did the patterns I sent to you help out?

Nathan
 
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