WIP small Hunting knife

J.Leclair

J.Leclair

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Hey all, I am making a knife for a member of an archery forum I frequent and decided it'd be a good chance to do a work in progress thread.
After emailing back and forth we came up with a design he liked and chose the steel he wanted.
The steel is 1/8" CPM S30V
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first off transfer the design onto the steel.
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then cut the piece off the bar.
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Action shot of me grinding to profile, leaving about 1/16" extra meat around the edges of the blade to allow a little wiggle room while grinding the bevels.
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Profile ground and ready for bevels.
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Stay tuned more to come......
 
I got into the zone and forgot to take a couple pics, first I ground off all the mill scale from the sides of the blank using the worn out 60x belt that I used to profile the blank. I then colored the edge with black sharpie and with a 1/8" drill bit I lay the blank flat on my glass surface plate and use the drill bit to mark the centre line of the blank. this gives me a refernce point to grind up to so the edge will be centred. Next I clamp the blank in the vise and with a mill ba$tard file I break the corners of the edge. This keeps the 90 degree edge from stripping the abrasive off the belt. Now I clamp on my plunge guide and grind in the bevels. starting with a fresh 60x belt then going straight to a 220x belt. once the bevels are ground in I go to the drill press to drill and countersink the pin holes and the exposed lanyard hole. The client wanted jimping in 3 spots on the handle so I went ahead and did that as well.
here's where we are at now,

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now it's off to heat treat with it. I send my knives out to be HT'd. usualy takes less than a week there and back so in the mean time I work on the next few projects.
More to come....
 
Everything arrived back from HT yesterday. I reailized too late that the bateries in the cam were dead so Got a couple pix with the cell cam.
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here's the rest of the batch, all kinds of sanding waiting for me now. 8)
here's the star of the WIP after a couple quick passes with 500 grit to clean it up.
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Then I trace the shape of the handles onto the handle material, in this case some awsome spalted maple burl, and cut out the scales then sand to final shape.
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dry fit up everything seems tight no large gaps anywhere.
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Stay Tuned almost done now.
 
I like it. Thats a cool design. Thanks for the WIP. I love seeing a knife start as just a rough profiled blank and changing into something so nice.
 
Finished. The first set of scales wound up having a large Void right next to the front pin so had to remove them and replace with these black elm burl scales.
Here it is all dressed up in it's new sheath.
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Hope you like it.
StaySharp
 
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