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Ya just don't see enough nessmuks around anymore. Hold on, here's one now! 80CRV2 with Padauk scales and acrylic/G10 spacers with stainless and mosaic pins. It's about 8 3/8" OAL and sitting at 320 grit scales on the way to 1200. The old Totem hasn't made the sheath rotation in a while either.wip1.jpg wip2.jpg
 
Here’s another castration knife for a buddy. It’s 1084 with black ash burl scales. It’s hollow ground to .008” and then sharpened to 15° per side.

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Still picking away at this folder. Pretty satisfying work. Blade/spring to exact sizing, rise/fall perfected and reset, bushing final lapped/sized, spring re-heat treated and finished and blade final finished and marked. All that remains is glueing on the scales, pinning them and then final peening and assembly. Looking at all domed pin options right now, something I havent done before but seems required with jigged bone scales. Thinking of using a small concave punch right now but feels nervewracking by swelling and pin. Mistakes doming/finishing that dome on a set of jigged bone I cant easily just sand away any mistakes without sanding into the jigging pattern. I'm considering doing recessed dome for the scale pins since I can peen them from the back and pre-dome them from the front and then doing a normal peen on the spring/rear pins and using a dremel with a tiny attachment to "match" whatever jigging the pin intersects.

Currently sanding in the channels that will end out the bolsters and straightening their lines, trying to do as much metalwork to the liners as I can before I put on the scales for overheating reasons.

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AVigil said:
Looking good.

What size pins are you using?
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1/8 in main pivot and then a bushing with a 1/8 ID and a 3/16OD the blade will rotate on. I wish I could use a smaller main pin as I assume it would be easier to blend eventually but the only bushings I had around take 1/8 :) I'm hoping with bushing construction I'll be able to more aggressively peen than my prior ones where it was a bit of a give or take between over peening to get a perfect blend but risking a bound up blade or under and having a pin eventually show up with a ghost ring.
 
I started with 1/8" pins and has a horrible time getting them to hide, 3/32" is much easier.
Using the bushing was a game changer in keeping the blade from locking up for me.

I am a gorilla and kinda ham fisted and that did not help with peening LOL
 
AVigil said:
I started with 1/8" pins and has a horrible time getting them to hide, 3/32" is much easier.
Using the bushing was a game changer in keeping the blade from locking up for me.

I am a gorilla and kinda ham fisted and that did not help with peening LOL
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I finished my knife last night and WOW that bushing is a game-changer. This is the first time I've used one and I went with it about .0005-.001 more than the blade. I started peening like normal and after checking and re-checking to ensure I wasn't crazy and I had zero play and zero binding, I ended up like a crazy gorilla smashing those pins and I don't think they'll be showing any time soon.

I took my time and ended up with almost rivet-like domed pins just from a billion tiny peening hits on the handles. Overall one of those nights where everything just comes together. Here she is:

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David Schott said:
I finished my knife last night and WOW that bushing is a game-changer. This is the first time I've used one and I went with it about .0005-.001 more than the blade. I started peening like normal and after checking and re-checking to ensure I wasn't crazy and I had zero play and zero binding, I ended up like a crazy gorilla smashing those pins and I don't think they'll be showing any time soon.

I took my time and ended up with almost rivet-like domed pins just from a billion tiny peening hits on the handles. Overall one of those nights where everything just comes together. Here she is:

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That came out nice!
I will not make a slipjoint without a bushing, the anxiety of locking up a blade was so annoying. Now it really is a pleasure just peening and having no bullshit break in of the blade.
 
PEU said:
Two table sets in progress, one in Hitachi ATS34 and the other in Balbach stainless damascus, all of them with stabilized burls. More photos when finished.

Pablo

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Hey this is cool, my wife has said, "it's knives, knives, knives, ... never a fork".
As a stock removal guy, I wasn't sure about putting in the curved shape. Did you forge these? Are they heat treated?
 
Nope, I don't make the forks, I buy them ready made. Years ago I used to make them, but the amount of work is not correlated to what a customer wants to pay for a fork, so I looked around for nice premade forks and I'm happy putting handles to them. My customers knows this in advance of course.

Pablo
 
PEU said:
Nope, I don't make the forks, I buy them ready made. Years ago I used to make them, but the amount of work is not correlated to what a customer wants to pay for a fork, so I looked around for nice premade forks and I'm happy putting handles to them. My customers knows this in advance of course.

Pablo
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I wonder if there are fork enthusiasts out there. A guy I know collects high end scissors...something I never realized really existed till he started telling me about the 1K he paid for his last one
 
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