Waterjet order of Fixed Blades

[Leading Edge Fab]

Any suggestions for a free(or inexpensive) drawing program that would allow makers to do all the design themselves and send you a usable file.

Here's a link to a good free CAD program by the same company that has Solidworks.

http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/download-draftsight/

 

[Leading Edge Fab]

Mark,

Do you do single orders? I mean, just one blade?

Dave

I can do small lot orders just PM me with what your thinking about.

 

[Leading Edge Fab]

Sorry I did not mean to move this in a direction not permitted. It was just curiosity as I probably will never use this with my small knife output.
But if I do, I know where I'll go. :thumbup:

I do understand Patrice as I am trying to get the word out without violating the rules here. And I do small lot orders too.

 

[Bill DeShivs]

I spoke with H2Oknife at length today. Knowledgeable, capable, enthusiastic, acoomodating fellow!
I look forward to doing business with him. It will sure make life easier. The bandsaw is a wonderful tool.
I couldn't get along without it. But, having precision cut parts on hand enables me to "spread out" a little.

 

[MSCantrell]

I'm surprised we don't see more emphasis on waterjet cutting for skeletonizing handles.

Profiles, you can do with a bandsaw. Waterjet cutting saves you the time. Holes, you do with a drill press (and in fact, even after they're water-cut, you still have to drill them, so the benefit is in consistent layout, not in saving any time).

But what's extraordinarily impractical, prohibitively time-consuming, in knife shops without a mill is skeletonized handles. We go through all the trouble of tapering tangs for weight, but aren't excited about getting blanks cut with the tang already hollow? It's frickin sweet! And it's every bit as easy to order them that way as it is to order them solid.
In my book, that brand new capability is probably the coolest feature of all. :thumbup:

 

[Leading Edge Fab]

Thanks for the encouragement on our services guy's.
I thought I'd post a couple more examples of details (some not knife related) we've ran in the recent past.
The timing gear detail is a prototype piece used in a new revision of the old Wankel engine design. Military application for an auxiliary power supply. It has a 1:1 weight to HP (40 lbs).
Hope you all don't mind a little non knife related posts.

This fixed blade pattern went to one of our service members / knifemakers located at Ft Bragg. To all service members THANK YOU!

 

[james terrio]

I'm surprised we don't see more emphasis on waterjet cutting for skeletonizing handles.

No need to convince me There's a lot of reasons waterjet cutting is awesome and that's definitely one of them :thumbup:

Good lookin' work, H2Oknife.