Serrations, anodizing, sharpened swedge, a recipe for disaster!

Harden Knives

Harden Knives

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Hey everyone, Just got a custom order for a knife from a really friendly guy on here and quite frankly, this is the most complicated project I have taken on and to tell you the truth I am a little scared.

I am ready for the challenge but need a little guidance first. To start:

I have never done serrations before, much less on a spin of a knife. This customer wants a near copy of the knife I have just made but wants some specialized changes.
He wants serrations on only the forward most curve of the spine, for cutting rope. His knife is the one below the finished one and that is how they all start out. It is already hardened CPM154, can I even make changes to that? I also don't know if I should so sort of a chisel grind serration or if I should put a sort of hawkbill bevel, then put serrations on the spine. No idea.
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The customer also wants a swedge just like that one and it needs to be sharpened. My only question is how do I make the material behind that just a little bit thicker for prying?

We are also going to do titanium pins in the handle with Kevlar scales and he wants the top of the pins anodized blue. I have done heat anodizing before but not electro. Is it possible to do some sort of electro anodizing with a q-tip or something once the pins have been finished? Obviously I can't flame anodize them or the handle would burn (duh) and I cant anodize them before epoxying and contouring.

I think I have all my questions covered, Thanks everyone for the help, I would be extremely lost without your help.
 
Hmmmm, some good questions. As far as the pins go, can you do test fitting with practice pins then for final glue-up use shorter-than-handle-width pins? You can clean out the epoxy as it sets with a q-tip. Then heat anodize some other pins, cut the ends off and cap the handle holes with the heat anodized ends?
 
i4Marc said:
Hmmmm, some good questions. As far as the pins go, can you do test fitting with practice pins then for final glue-up use shorter-than-handle-width pins? You can clean out the epoxy as it sets with a q-tip. Then heat anodize some other pins, cut the ends off and cap the handle holes with the heat anodized ends?
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Okay, I can see how that would work. I was thinking maybe pin and epoxy everything up and once the handle is in a vice, tap the pins out. Once the epoxy has cured, put the pins back in the handle, contour then anodize and epoxy. But the cap solution sounds a bit more permanent.
 
Use 5 9v batteries to get a nice blue. Really easy, blue.

Edit- here's some ti liners I did.

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I used the same voltage on the alloy as well as beta ti and the results are the same across the board. Might try 36v (just connect em together) first then add the 5th batt. Easy to go up, but you'll need to strip it if you go too high.
 
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