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I have truck loads of walnut ... it is similar in color to walnut but actually harder than walnut and the grain is alMost identical to mahogany but it’s so hard I donno it’s a weird pc of wood but I like it so much

this is a 1095 folder I made with brass liners and bolsters that are soldered the handle material is unknown it was from a chunk of wood that my grandpa brought me and said he wanted a knife with this wood as the handle it looks a lot like mahogany but it is extremely hard ... way harder than...

Awesome hope to get an inventory of knives build up one day to do a show but every single one I build I either want for myself or Build for someone else I will get there one day

Finally got to work on it some more made a little more progress ...... got blade heat treated and ground and got pivot screws countersunk still waiting on a drill bit for the detent then I’m gonna blast and cerakote everything

Ok guy I got an update got the blade fitting in the closed position without hitting the back spacer got the scales ground flush with the liners and profiled got it all taken to 220 grit and edges rounded off all I got left is heat treat, bevel , countersink the pivot screws and install the...

How do I go about hardening the lock face

Thanks I used a cam style stop and it’s in the shortest setting I can rotate the cam to the point where it won’t lock at all so I hope I will be fine you got me worrying now though ..... I’m not certain of the angle but it’s somewhere in the ballpark of 8 degrees thanks for the feed back

Still got a lot of work left to do but I thought I would show some pics of the first fit up.... still got a lot of profiling left but this is the coolest knife I built yet couldn’t stand it had to show some pics

Another slipjoint finished Damascus blade hand rubbed curly walnut scales nickel bolsters and pivot pin brass liners and brass pins for the scales Still not perfect but I’m still learning with each one this is slipjoint number 6

Finished product!

About to try and wear out a brand new bandsaw blade

Awesome design.... I been working on about 12 new designs the last 2 weeks waiting on more material to arrive I’m getting pretty decent at cad .... awesome job

First coat of tung oil

Got the scales on now just gotta do a little bit of profiling and clean them up and it’s done first attempt at a satin finish blade it’s not perfect and I’m not particularly happy with it... I wish I would have etched it before I put the handles on but oh well ..... there is a slight hamon on...

I love feather Damascus .... and I love the long guard really cool design

Here is another aluminum handle slipjoint out of 1095 it’s been used a few days so it has a little pocket wear....... people seam to love these they are light and thin really good everyday use knife what y’all think?

Got the bevels on kinda different for a bushcraft knife what do y’all think?

Thanks guys I have built slipjoints and lock back knives so I know how important the tolerances are and how important having good tools are..... I got my parts from USAKnifemaker so they should be of quality........ I don’t have a surface grinder as of right now so it will take me a lot of...

Hey just ordered everything I need to make my first liner lock any pointers before it arrives and I start cuttin stuff up???