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Most any local machine shop can help you with that. Fill out out your profile, you might have a knife maker right close to you that would do it for a 6 pack of beer. Erik

Beauty knife Stefand. Love the grind of the blade. The concealed tang is pretty amazing too. Sometimes it amazes me the mechanical work we can and have to go to sometimes to get a project done. great job! Erik

Great looking folder Taylor. Clean classic lines. Now comes the fun part of testing it so you know what you want to keep, and what you want to change for your next folder. Erik

Oh my goodness! Great looking folder Stan. Would love to hold it for a while Erik

If you look in you cad drawing in the closed position, you also have an issue with the blade contacting the spring. You also are pretty close to the spring at the tip. You need to take into consideration there is a small bit of over travel as the blade snaps close. You will end up with a small...

I just did a goggle and there must be 30 or more knives that have BIG hole in the handles for cigar cutting. It amazes me that guys think they have invented something new when in fact it is very rare that it's not just a variation of something old. as far as the patent biz, that is really hard...

It's more a mater of how thick the material is than what type. If you follow the blade manufacturing specks they call for three teeth in the material at any given time. Almost everything I cut is very thin so I happen to get 24tooth/ inch. If you try and get as low of tooth cut as you can, you...

My guess is that would be a problem. Oven would get to temp way to quick leaving the steel behind the curve. I know it's hard for us to watch the power meter run while the oven is on but in this case you got to do it. You also want to give the steel time to properly form new grain structure...

When you say you took it to 1475, how fast did you go. Even with a 15 minute soak, you might not have gotten the blade to temp. You need a ramp cycle that is not too quick so the blade has time to keep up with the temp. Was the oven hot or cold when you started? Putting a blade in a 1475 deg...

If I were doing this project, I'd do it with my metal lath. Would be really simple I think. You might doing it on a wood lath with a little patience. Erik

Thought I would make a folder for a friend of mine and wanted to try a couple of ideas I have had for a while. I have wanted o do some inlays with colored epoxy that might allow me to do more intricate designs in the future. i carved in the Oregon State Beavers logo into my orange G10 scales...

Yippee for you! looks good for your first folder? Each one gets easyer as you Learn the mechanics involved in folders. use you folder for a while and it will tell you a lot about what you want to do next time. Erik

As a folder maker I find this very interesting. I don't know if it's luck or skill, but I have only had one spring fail on an early folder. Looking back I agree with Stefan that design had to have had some part in its failure because it failed after about 6 months of use. the idea of...

After you use the surface grinder for a few knives, you'll wonder how you ever did without it. It and my 2 x72 are the two most valuable tools I use now for folder making. Happy grinding. Erik

Good looked knife, your grandfather should be proud to carry it. Erik

Looking good Danial. Your on your way and two months from now you will look back and think wow! Why did I do that? overall your design looks fine. I would be concern about the pivot hole being so close to the top of the blade notch. But ultimately blade machanics trumps all. Blade has to pivot...

Congrats Calvin! You deserve the accolades. Erik

Howdy. you didn't say if you made or bought the bow tie shield. I have some I bought from Boss Dog and when I got them I bought the templet for them too. You will use a rotorytool of some sort with an end mill to cut the recess into the material. I don't think you can really try burning the...

You can make a simple nail nick a couple of ways. First, you could go at it with a hand held Dremal tool. You'll have to have a steady hand to get it cut in straight and clean. Second, you can chuck up an abrasive cutter in a drill press and clamp your blade in a small vise that you can use to...

Looks like a good start to me too. I see you have shaded on the bottom, front edge of the spring a lint trap. Looks like it will extend in quite a ways in the photos. When you grind that, make sure that the blade at half stop does not extend past the end of the bottom edge of the spring. It...