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Laredo7mm

Laredo7mm

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Well, I am excited anyway. She is just a prototype and not really pretty but she works great. Looks like my typical gent's folder, but she is a bolster release auto!

It took me six design iterations to get her to this point. My main goal was to make my Gent's Folder an auto and not change the profile of the original. That was not easy since there is not any internal room for lever springs and all that jazz.

Anyway, here are a couple pics. And yes, I will counter bore all holes on the final damascus versions, and give her a good fit and finish ;) . Plus I took a little video snippet (about 650K) to show you the action and the awesome "craaaack" she has when opening.

Let me know what you think! I am pumped! :D :cool: :)

Gent's Auto Video


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Here is about what she will look like when it is all dressed up:

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Do you ever sell the 'prototypes'? I would mind having such a prototype in it's 'rough' state.
 
Wow, I like the action.

Impressive. Can't wait to see it in full battle dress.
 
Thanks guys, I appreciate your compliments. She has a nice kick to her too. I looked at the video frame by frame and the blade goes from closed to full open in 1 frame, so about 0.042 of a second from closed to open. You can also see the tail end of the knife move in my hand when she opens with a nice kick.

Hopefully in a week or so I will have one in full dress, it should be pretty slick.

jiminy - No I do not sell my prototypes. I have a good friend who gets all my first offs. He will probably get this one too if i can ever stop playing with it. He has my first folder, my first Bowie knife (made out of my first cable damascus), my first titanium ring, and one of my first twist action mokume pens.

I owe him for the endless nights of subjecting him to my "knife babble" and going on road trips with me to pick up shop machinery. So if i ever make it big in this business, he should be set up with a pretty good nest egg. ;)

Thanks again for the replies.
 
Soooo, what are the chances of us making one of those for me next time I bother you in your neck of the woods? :D I'll bring the booze! :D (and the bandaids)
 
Oh, and how much more work/effort/design is it to turn a knife like that into a dual action? Or, by nature, is an auto-opening liner lock already a D/A?
 
You know what, I was thing the same thing. I don't know how dual actions work. This one is a single action, auto only, with no liner lock. The blade locks in the closed ans full open position like a back lock folder does, so you have to rotate the bolster to release the lock and close the blade.

Anybody out there know how D/A's work? I will have to think about it some more and figure it out.

HeHeHe, I would definitely need the bandaids if we are boozing while in the shop. I think the last time I worked under the unfluence, my finger and the bandsaw got into a fight and the bandsaw won. :)
 
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