Search results

Thanks again, good ideas you are encorporating there!

Thank you! However I was talking about the pivot pin and pivot hole in the blade. Are you using the Clover compound on those two parts and lapping them together?

Interesting...I too lap my pivot holes with a barrel lap and Clover compound, as other makers do. However I've tried to lap the actual pivot and blade together and wound up with a big o'l mess...either finishing up too loose, or galling and ruining parts. It looks like you are lapping them...

Thanks to both of you for your input. The numbering system helps me get a better understanding of it. I need to get to some shows and get more exposure to customs. All those old factory knives I mentioned are just kind of mushy, no real snap even when cleaned up well and lubed.

I’ve never had the chance to handle a custom or even a high end production slip joint, just the old pocket knives floating about that we all run into. I’ve made some slip joints and it seems that each one I make, I make the spring a little stronger on. The one I’m working on now, I’ve thought...

today so far...

A little progress.

Here's a link to a little album I put together from some older pictures. I've made a lot more different styles than this but it represents a few of the knives I've made. http://www.crockettsautomotive.com/some_knives_i_made/

Not as ambitious as some of you. Just this one. Craig, this is a one-blade version of a certain three blade drawing you may have seen elsewhere. I did have to make some changes to the design to make it work, at least on paper. I have to fit up all the various aspects of the blade tang and...

Thanks everyone. I've had a good time looking at lots of pics here. Later today I'll find some pics of my past work and post them here.

Don Crockett here, part time/hobby knife maker. I make fixed and folding knives. Liner locks, frame locks and my real passion, slip joints with the odd lock-back thrown in. In fact I'm here because I've been trying to find a forum with more active slip-joint makers, and it looks like there...