New swell end.....

Nathan, the patterns did help, and I really appreciate it!

Sooooooo.........I've been able to work on it a little bit this week, and have some more to show you all. I'm not going with the jigged bone. I'm just not. Read in gents, read on.

I had a few......eh.......design feature changes (read mistakes) that influenced my actual design changes. I had planned on a sheepsfoot secondary and a spear man. Well, I messed up the pivot areas (my grasp of geometry is horrible apparently) and the spear tip wasn't coming below the liners like it was supposed to. So I did what any good engineer would do; I changed the design. Haha. Now I have a sheepsfoot main and a needlepoint wharncliffe secondary.


Open:
20130308_123329.jpg


20130308_123338.jpg


Closed:
You can faintly see the scribe line where I have to bring the end of the pivot end liners down just a bit.
20130308_123649.jpg

20130308_123641.jpg


I'm proud that the knife is going to end up with almost sunk joints. Should make it decently pocketable even with the blades sticking out as far as they are. The black lines towards the pivots are where the grinds stop at the ricasso, give or take a bit.

Bolsters! Of course not shaped, but you can get the idea. I really don't like barlows, but Charlie's SFO TC Sawyer Barlow snuck up on me and smacked me upside the head as a wonderful looking knife, so I'm doing what every good engineer does; copying it.

I measured the old barlows in Charlie's TC SB thread and my bolster length:overall length is right in line with the old knives.

20130308_123534.jpg




Now...............drum roll please!!

The reason



I'm not





Using





The




Bone













Sika Stag!
20130308_123527.jpg


20130308_123436.jpg


Our own Fes sent this to me all the way from NZ. I thought I had messed it up completely when I tried to saw the rolls into slabs, but I was able to salvage a few small pieces (3 to be exact). These are the ones that match the best. Thanks FES!







So, what do you think of the direction I'm headed? I hope to dovetail the bolsters and get the bolsters soldered to the liners this weekend sometime. Then get the blades ground and headed to HT as soon as my Bruce Bump carbide file guide shows up. I'm getting excited!!
 
That is really cool. One day I want to redo a couple of old worn camillus klein knives my dad and grandpa had and given to me that are in bad shape.
 
racingfirefighter said:
That is really cool. One day I want to redo a couple of old worn camillus klein knives my dad and grandpa had and given to me that are in bad shape.
Click to expand...

Thanks. I was afraid everyone didn't like the stag, as the comments completely disappeared. Haha.

Glennbad is your man when it comes to old knife restores. His work is wonderful.

Off topic, do you do drag racing or circle track firefighting? I've done some drag rescue stuff. Fun fun.
 
medicevans said:
Glennbad is your man when it comes to old knife restores. His work is wonderful.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the kind words, but I've been admiring you work with some fascination. Very impressive, looks great!
 
glennbad said:
Thanks for the kind words, but I've been admiring you work with some fascination. Very impressive, looks great!
Click to expand...

Thanks Glenn. I'm just learning and doing my best. I will say that I feel it's harder to restore than to make original. If I mess up, I just make another piece. If you mess up, it's hard to remake a 1940s Case. :). I will say that I really enjoy seeing your restos. I do occasional restorations on straight razors, and pocket knives are mucho more complicated.
 
Last edited:
medicevans said:
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.


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.
Click to expand...

I was able to look inside the cover on a large book site, and that looks like a great book. I added it to my wish list. Your knife is really turning out great, thanks for sharing
 
Swept edge,a cool post of that book it's that it even has a pattern from which to make a small knife. It quite literally takes you from start to finish and teaches you how to make a knife. Anyone could make a knife with less than $100 equipment.


I spoke with a wonderful maker today,a gentleman I really respect. We spoke at length about many, many things. He said something, and I had to agree. Why am I putting high quality scale material on a knife that really isn't a perfect specimen? I liken it to putting lipstick on a pig.

I'm going to keep my stag for a later knife. I cut out some scales from black paper micarta. I'm going to run with that, or maybe ebony, something cheap and ok if I mess it up.
 
medicevans said:
Swept edge,a cool post of that book it's that it even has a pattern from which to make a small knife. It quite literally takes you from start to finish and teaches you how to make a knife. Anyone could make a knife with less than $100 equipment.


I spoke with a wonderful maker today,a gentleman I really respect. We spoke at length about many, many things. He said something, and I had to agree. Why am I putting high quality scale material on a knife that really isn't a perfect specimen? I liken it to putting lipstick on a pig.

I'm going to keep my stag for a later knife. I cut out some scales from black paper micarta. I'm going to run with that, or maybe ebony, something cheap and ok if I mess it up.
Click to expand...

Sounds good. I may get into kydex first though
 
I want to get into kydex too, just add kit to the list. Haha.

Well........the knife decided it wanted to be a single bladed gent's knife, rather than what it was turning into. Once I got some scales fitted, the sheepsfoot just didn't have the closed tension I was looking for, so I took it out. I like this more anyway.

I have to figure out why my solder issue happened, then I may do small bolsters on it.

20130312_221548.jpg


20130312_221823.jpg


20130312_221843.jpg


Now I need to decide, swedge or no, and long pull or nail nick. Also single or double bolster, or shadow pattern?
 
I got the bolsters soldered on this morning. Just for information for anyone who reads this. You must have fix for the solder to work. Amazing how doing something the right way works.

Now I have a decision to make. I can go ahead and use the ivory micarta like I had planned. I can use black micarta. Or........I can unchange my mind and use the sunset bone.

20130327_090028.jpg


My quality engineer has made his decision. What's your opinion?

20130327_085933.jpg
 
medicevans said:
My quality engineer has made his decision. What's your opinion?

20130327_085933.jpg
Click to expand...

Give the Peanut (back right corner) a go.

:-)

-- Looking good! I love the sunset bone, but trust it will appear to good effect on a future knife if not this one. ;)

~ P.
 
Cool! I'd love to give that a try one of these days. How did you solder the bolsters? Silver solder?
 
Grunt, it isn't that hard. Like anything else, it takes attention to detail and taking your time. Both of which I sometimes have problems with. On the first page I mentioned Don Robinson's book, Slipjoints My Way. It is really a great book, and if you're interested in learning to make slipjoints, I'd definitely pick it up.

This is only my second slipjoint. I have four others laid out on steel right now. I doubt I will go back to making fixed blades other than what I can use for myself. I like making pocket knives.

My next update will be the finished knife. Maybe. I might do one more update. We'll see.
 
I like the Sunset Bone. That's what I would pick if that were my build.
 
medicevans said:
Also, I still want people to weigh in on the cover material. I'm really stuck.
Click to expand...

My opinion, FWIW, would be to save that bone, and stag for a later build. I would go with a micarta for my first few, to make sure I had the kinks worked out. That is just me, knowing I would make mistakes along the way that I wouldn't be happy with.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top