Working on some knives!

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Time for a W.I.P.!

I had an idea for a slicy/pointy fighter utility the other night and did my best to draw it up... I only have about 10 minutes into the CAD but wanted to get the general idea down, as you can see it needs refinement.

I used the mill to cut a slot. This part took a while! This is a piece of 1.5" tall .315" thick A2 tool steel. The slot got cleaned up with a file and sand paper.

Profiled, cleaned up, holes drilled, chamfered and everything is squared up on the horizontal grinder.

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Marinated overnight and ready to cook.

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Time to grind some scales! I'm working on the bottom two...'

Tubes ground over 40, 80, 100 and scotchbrite belts... they need to e smooth on the end for flaring. Then they were flared... Scales ground on the perimeter and cleaned up... time to do further clean up work on the horizontal grinder.

I just used a 1" wide 220 belt to chamfer every corner on the knife. After that I went to the buffer and "melted" down everything in contact with the hand. I do this on pretty much all of my knives at some stage.

Checking the choil for comfort - it feels great! It is mirror polished in that area at this point.

 

[Lycosa]

Nice, simple design.
You are being watched, Daniel.

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Thanks Rolf!



Profiled... that's grey (looks kind of green) burlap handle material with a green glow!

The black lines are wax from the buffer... time for more finishing work!

 

[reckaje]

Love this design. Well done Daniel!

 

[Shawn Hatcher]

Nice Daniel! When did you get that Beaumont horizontal? And mill? And then you just have random damascus and folders laying around?!!? You've gone big time!

 

[Charlie Choil]

Can't wait to see how these turn out(I like seeing your shop/progress shots)

 

[AVigil]

great work Daniel I love the new Grindr

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Love this design. Well done Daniel!

Much appreciated!

Nice Daniel! When did you get that Beaumont horizontal? And mill? And then you just have random damascus and folders laying around?!!? You've gone big time!

Thanks! I got the mill, grinder and did a few other major shop improvements early this year... it's going to be a big year!

That's a big piece of damascus right! And yes that is the DFK Framelock! .180" Ti Frames and a .207" CPM D2 blade.

Can't wait to see how these turn out(I like seeing your shop/progress shots)

Thanks! I'll post the finished pics here in a second!

great work Daniel I love the new Grindr

Thanks! I am enjoying the grinder, I need a vfd now on my regular KMG! lol

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

This one is about 11.38 long with a 6" blade including the choil.

MCAM G10 and .315" A2 Tool Steel

 

[chuxwan]

Interesting grind, that thing is gorgeous!

 

[nb11b]

I really like this design... It is quite effective looking...

 

[swimmerdude1127]

That is one great looking knife!