Yukon style slip joint

SVanderkolff

SVanderkolff

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This is slip joint number 7, possibly slip joint number 6 since the previous one ended up in the scrap pile about three quarters of the way through. Are you supposed to count those that are scrapped before completion? No idea. For my purposes I will call this slip joint number 7 since number six did have its own personality by the time I scrapped it. So here is slip joint number 7. Once again in the Yukon pattern sort of. The knife is 3 3/4inches long closed Six and 3/4 inches open. The liners and bolsters are intergral and made of 416 stainless. The back spring is O1 tempered to 52 rockwell and the blade is 440C. The blade has a through nick. I have no idea what it is supposed to be called but the nail nick extends completely through the blade. I really like this since it lets the blade work well either left handed or right handed and also makes the nick big enough I can actually use it. The pull to open is fairly stiff. I have heard people talk on a scale of 1 to 10 for the pull but I don't have a reference to say "THIS IS A SEVEN PULL" so I will just say it is fairly stiff.
OH I almost forgot the handle slabs are some fine crackle mammoth ivory.

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Thanks
Steve
 

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In that first picture, is that a crack in the mammoth just to the left of the rightmost pin? I see a squiggly line that I seem to also see in that third picture.
 
That's not a crack it is simply some of the texture of the mammoth. I stabilized the slabs as well.
Thanks for looking so carefully.
 
Love the double bolsters! Great looking blade for sure! Comeuppance, can't even compliment the maker's work after you criticize it? Rude bro.
 
dewhick said:
Love the double bolsters! Great looking blade for sure! Comeuppance, can't even compliment the maker's work after you criticize it? Rude bro.
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I didn't criticize anything - I just asked a question...?

It is a gorgeous piece, though!
 
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