Slipjoint #3 Complete....Critique

Wow, that soldering job looks like perfect and also the inside of the knife is very clean. I am glad i could pass on the advices that i recieved and i found helpful :)
I have had soldering lines showing up only later in the build that had me scratching my head...i didn't come to an answer, but i suspect it may have relationship with the heat generated during grinding lenghtwise with finer grits.

By the way i wouldn't believe how much steel you used if i hadn't used at least as much ;) Transfer punches help a lot in nailing the holes alignment and so saving a lot of liners....i need to buy or make me some
 
Stezzan.....heat during shaping the bolsters makes perfect sense. That is probably the culprit. Is there a way to fix that once it happens or is it just there. I thought about heating it a little to see if I could get the solder to flow out but was scared. Maybe I'll try that on one of the wrecked sets I have laying around.
 
T.Knotts said:
Thanks for the comments and suggestions. Not sure what you mean by the sharpening notch flair. Can you post a pic or tell me a brand/maker that does the sharpening notch the way you prefer? I really never put a whole lot of thought into it before but now I find this interesting. Thanks again.
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So if you look closely at the very back of the cutting edge of your blade, can you see how the point drops down below the axis of the edge, so that if you rested the edge on a flat surface, the blade would not sit perfectly flat? That usually happens because the thickness at the back of the blade is greater due to the rounding through the plunge grind - the notch should start after the plunge grind is done, but in this case it starts before. The effect is the sharpening stone cannot get flat on the blade all the way at the back.

Most people don't care about this. But it's something I look for on a blade because I like to sharpen. Usually I can fix it with a belt sander by bumping the notch forward just a hair or two.

Here is a video by Rob Bixby, a pro knife sharpener known on Youtube as TheApostleP. He does a good job of explaining and showing demos - there's a really bad example when he starts showing the black coated Brous blade. He also talks about this subject occasionally in other knife review videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0vc7JF8AeU
 
Traumkommode....thanks for that info. That video was great. I always stayed away from 90° angles at the riccaso on fixed blades due to fear of forming a crack in heat treat plus I always liked the look of a swooping grind. But...as with a lot of things...I see that doesn't carry over to well with smaller slipjoints blades. I will definitely take this in consideration in the future. Thanks for pointing that out and pointing me in the right direction.
 
I like the knife,. I don't see anything I'd change about it. #3 knife? Wow, you have some talent.
 
Tleav61 and Augustus Cole....thanks a lot. I appreciate the comments.
 
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