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Anything worth doing right, is worth doing three times it takes to get it right! Erik

Try ordering direct from Chris. He's a great guy and I can't believe he doesn't have his own video. Ha! http://chriscrawfordknives.com/dvds/4568470019 erik

my first though is your getting it too hot and burning it. how are you sanding, by hand or under power? if its by power, fresh clean belts and not too fine work good. I slow my belts down to help with the heat issue. all micartas will look powdery when you sand them at first. then as you get to...

two pins are a must in my opinion for a work knife. get the holes drilled first in the right place in the blade and then see how the rest goes. sometimes you have to set aside a piece of wood for a different project in order to use the right one for what your working on. Erik

Yea Ken I do have a cnc but its for none metal cutting. I just wanted to hone my hand skills with the file for this project. Now that I have a O1 hardened pattern I can cut a bolster pretty quick. I have looked into outfitting a small knee mill with cnc and that may be in my future if I can get...

Thanks Eric. I just chucked the bit up in my drill press and held the bolster by hand. Not to many grabs, ha! erik

been working on this design for a while and finally got to try it out. dressed it in Carbon Fiber and O1. Erik Blade O1 liners 410 ss scales Carbon Fiber open 5 3/4" blade 2 3/4"

got a little Free time in the shop today and played with a new folder pattern. I haven't had a chance to make a Jack Folder and I thought I'd try one with a contoured bolster. It was a bit of a learning curve but after getting a pattern for the bolster in O1 it was pretty easy. i found a rotary...

If your going to drill the hardened steel you have two ways to go I think. First is you can get some solid carbide drills. Not the mass nary ones but jobber bits. They will go right through the stock. Be carful they are realy brittle. Second is you could soften the handle portion of the black...

looking good Walle. planer blades can make a nice knife. now you get to test it and see how it holds up to daily use. you might want to make a trip up to Eugene and come to the 5160 club meeting first Thursday of every month. lots of guys at lots of levels and interests. good place to make...

My my opinion is you sould put the saw blade away for a while and work with a known steel that we can help you out with and give you the best shoot possible getting a knife from. If you buy something like a 1075 or a 1080 the price is cheap and you can get a good first blade out of it. After...

Welcome to KD . I'm up around Cottagegrove way, where a outs are you? Erik

Dave a pic is worth a thousand words... in this case 2500. how about you let us see it? :biggrin: I hate it when i see someone getting rid of a knife because they "have" to and not because they want too, but i understand it. Erik

Take a magnet to it. If it sticks it's a 400, if it doesn't it's a 300 as a rule erik

Great idea Calvin. Something so simple can really help the day along with less stress. Calvin, you didn't say if you hardened them? Steve, looking at your knives, you could easily make a gig like this. It would just take a. Up of coffee and a little time to lay out the pieces. Drill some holes...

I think the thickness will depend on what you intend the knife to be used for. I happen to like slip joints and I use .093 (3/32) for them. I may try some .0625 in the future to lighten them up a bit. Erik

I guess I'm simple minded, but why not use 1080 if you want it to match? You'd have to machine and surface grind it down to liner thickness but that would be simple enough. I'd have to think about it but you might want to harden and then spring templet the liners but I realy don't think it would...

looks good Jason. I have had a set of checkering cutters for a while and haven't had a chance to use them. maybe this will nudge me along...Ha. Is there a reason you didn't go ahead and finish the handle out all glued to the blade before you started checkering? I'd have thought you wouldn't...

Ha john, great looking folder. With your talents I don't know what you were worried about. you make great knives so a folder would be a natural transition for you. So what's your next one going to be? Erik

Looking good Ben! Love the color layout. Erik