Full stainless friction folder

[KDX]

I finished this friction folder today. I'm kind of happy with it but, it's probably my crappiest grind to date. I ground the AEB-L in the annealed state and will not be doing that again. It's got some flex to it and my grind did not stay consistent. A good learning experience. I used all stainless hardware and phosphor bronze bushings. It's dishwasher safe.

It's a little off center. I think if I mess around with the screws I might be able to bring it over.

I like gimping.

It's pretty comfortable.

edit to add...I didn't make this one as a show piece, I wanted a rough industrial kind of look to it.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Looks like a knife that will do the job. Ed

 

[John Wilson]

I'm using a bit of AEB-L, too. I only grind it hard, but I do find that even hardened it produces a lot of "hairy" grinding debris, for lack of a better way to describe it. The grindings ball up in the hose of my dust collector until they look like big, sticky clumps of steel wool. I find myself scooping handfuls of quench water and throwing it down the hose because those pads of grindings like to burn. Definitely a "watch out" for anyone using AEB-L. I can't really tell the difference in the final grinds of hardened AEB-L vs hardened CPM154, but the grinding debris coming off acts very different.


As to your knife, I like a very much. How heavy is it, being all stainless?

 

[KDX]

Thanks gentlemen. As per my kitchen scale the knife weighs 218 grams or 7.6 ounces.

 

[John Wilson]

7.6oz is chunky for a folder, but really not bad considering it's a rather large knife.

 

[KDX]

LOL. You can definitely tell it's in your pocket, but it's not terrible. I might make a belt sheath for it, haven't decided on it yet though.

 

[stefand]

Very nice. Nice size working knife