Making washers.

Calvin Robinson

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20170818_143915-980x2016.jpg I use washers I stead of grinding a relief in my liners so I must make my own. These are bronze, .375" X .096" X .008". I use this spin jig on my surface grinder to make square pieces of shim stock into round washers.
 
Calvin, can you show how you are using those on you folders??? In the pic, (could be the angle) but it looks wide!! One of these days I am gonna have to come visit you. Your work and your attention to detail all amazes me!!
 
20170729_152230-388x549.jpg Cliff,
The original photo is a stack of 12 washers, each .008" thick. This photo shows individual washers. I use one on each side of my blade when I assemble the knife and they give me the anti scratch relief that most makers mill into their liners. Of course my spring must be as thick as the combined thickness of my blade and the two washers.
 
OK, now that makes sense!!! I was trying to figure how you got that one thick washer into a folder without relieving something DUH! I get it now, it easier to cut a bunch as one!!
 
Calvin, do you just surface grind your blade down thinner to get the thickness of it plus the washers to match your spring?
 
OK Calvin - I think I might understand the jig, but could you explain a bit more on the jig you made? Perhaps a photo of the jig with washers on it, but it loosened so we can see how the washers get on the jig?

Thanks for all your help in the past.

Ken H>
 
I made the arbor that you see with the washers stacked on it. It fits in a 3/8" C-5 collet the the spin jig will hold. You can't see the hand crank that operates it on the far end of the spin jig. The arbor is two pieces, one end goes in the collet , the square shimstock with a .096" hole in the middle fits on the other end that screws into the half that is in the collet.
 
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