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I've been playing around with a few different designs for folders and was trying to come up with a way to have further adjustment for wear beyond the ramped shape of the tang where the liner engages.
What I came up with is a sliding spine thats made out of Ti. It only would work on larger knives. The idea is that the spine has a slot milled in it so that 2 hardened pins go through it and both handle slabs/liners and scales. These would be fixed like 2 stop pins with around 1/4" or more space between them.The back of the spacer is drilled and tapped with the hole parallel to the spacer. A hardened screw has to be fixed into the butt of the knife handle so that it can turn freely but not slide forward or back ( still trying to think of an easy way to do that one). Its screwed into the hole in the tail end of the spine and used to jack the spine forwards or backwards as needed. Enough room has to be left in the milled slot so that you can run the spine all the way forward until the liner doesn't enage at all, or only partially. Then you just use the screw to back the spine up a hair at a time until the liner is engaging as much of the tang as you want.The more threads per inch on the screw the easier it is to adjust.It also helps with the problem of everyone having a different opinion on how far across the liner should travel. Some want full engagement, while others want it to release more easily.
I don't know how it would work out, and it will probably be awhile before I even have the tools to make an effort at it. I'm not real sure that its a new idea either but I thought I'd toss it out here and see what you guys thought.
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I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer... but I've got the sharpest knife in the room.
What I came up with is a sliding spine thats made out of Ti. It only would work on larger knives. The idea is that the spine has a slot milled in it so that 2 hardened pins go through it and both handle slabs/liners and scales. These would be fixed like 2 stop pins with around 1/4" or more space between them.The back of the spacer is drilled and tapped with the hole parallel to the spacer. A hardened screw has to be fixed into the butt of the knife handle so that it can turn freely but not slide forward or back ( still trying to think of an easy way to do that one). Its screwed into the hole in the tail end of the spine and used to jack the spine forwards or backwards as needed. Enough room has to be left in the milled slot so that you can run the spine all the way forward until the liner doesn't enage at all, or only partially. Then you just use the screw to back the spine up a hair at a time until the liner is engaging as much of the tang as you want.The more threads per inch on the screw the easier it is to adjust.It also helps with the problem of everyone having a different opinion on how far across the liner should travel. Some want full engagement, while others want it to release more easily.
I don't know how it would work out, and it will probably be awhile before I even have the tools to make an effort at it. I'm not real sure that its a new idea either but I thought I'd toss it out here and see what you guys thought.
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I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer... but I've got the sharpest knife in the room.