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Sorry to be posting the same knife again...But I wanted to show how the handle disassembles by first accessing the single screw on each side...and if I had simply added to the existing post nobody would know that there was a reason to come back and take another look.
Just for reference (so you can better understand how this all came together) here's a link to the previous post:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=338954
Let me start by saying I was having some camera trouble (my new Nikon died on me shortly after taking these pics...I was hoping to try a number of different ways of shooting until I got something half-way decent...but these are gonna have to do (my camera is going to Nikon tomorrow). I'm also having some trouble with my web host. Everything looks fine on my end...I hope it's OK on yours.
First, I wanted to show a little more of the spine (than what you could see in the previous post)...This is all I got before the camera went down.
Now on to the breakdown of the handle...
Both sides are the same, so I'm only showing the left side coming apart:
Here's after removing the screw and sliding off the ivory and brass
In order to get to the screws underneath I needed a way to attach the carved 416 spacers...This is an idea I got from reading about knives posted by Dave Kelly. He uses a similar approach to attach spacers on his cool folders. Using a wiredrill (doesn't really matter what size...I used a #56 for these), I drilled two holes through the sides of the spacers into the sides of the bolsters. Then I annealed the drills and cut them in 1/2 to use as pins. The spacers simply slide to the side.
Now that I could get to the 2 screws underneath each of the 2 spacers, I removed the entire assembly from the tang.
Flipping the asembly over, reveals the screws, which hold the bolsters to the titanium liners:
Flipping it back over you can see the bolsters, now removed.
Same view, but this time I turned over one of the bolsters so you can see the blind-tapped holes:
Here's a quick "reference" shot I took of the blade (once again, this was all I got before the camera died...wish I could have re-shot to get rid of the strange reflection in the tip of the blade).
That's it...Making this was a lot of work,...a lot of "figuring out how to do stuff"...and broke a lot of new ground for me.
Dennis Greenbaum
Yeah Baby! :smokin
Just for reference (so you can better understand how this all came together) here's a link to the previous post:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=338954
Let me start by saying I was having some camera trouble (my new Nikon died on me shortly after taking these pics...I was hoping to try a number of different ways of shooting until I got something half-way decent...but these are gonna have to do (my camera is going to Nikon tomorrow). I'm also having some trouble with my web host. Everything looks fine on my end...I hope it's OK on yours.
First, I wanted to show a little more of the spine (than what you could see in the previous post)...This is all I got before the camera went down.
Now on to the breakdown of the handle...
Both sides are the same, so I'm only showing the left side coming apart:
Here's after removing the screw and sliding off the ivory and brass
In order to get to the screws underneath I needed a way to attach the carved 416 spacers...This is an idea I got from reading about knives posted by Dave Kelly. He uses a similar approach to attach spacers on his cool folders. Using a wiredrill (doesn't really matter what size...I used a #56 for these), I drilled two holes through the sides of the spacers into the sides of the bolsters. Then I annealed the drills and cut them in 1/2 to use as pins. The spacers simply slide to the side.
Now that I could get to the 2 screws underneath each of the 2 spacers, I removed the entire assembly from the tang.
Flipping the asembly over, reveals the screws, which hold the bolsters to the titanium liners:
Flipping it back over you can see the bolsters, now removed.
Same view, but this time I turned over one of the bolsters so you can see the blind-tapped holes:
Here's a quick "reference" shot I took of the blade (once again, this was all I got before the camera died...wish I could have re-shot to get rid of the strange reflection in the tip of the blade).
That's it...Making this was a lot of work,...a lot of "figuring out how to do stuff"...and broke a lot of new ground for me.
Dennis Greenbaum
Yeah Baby! :smokin
