WIP Balisong niolox & titanium

cardoso5fr

Well-Known Member
The design is from a friend. Piw From france balisong. He wanted to see his scheme come to life :D. I worked on the project.

Niolox blade and titanium handle.


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I marked and cut the blade
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Band saw work
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I marked and draw the handle
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Band saw work.
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It's cut
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I make some grind with the dremel
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I shaped the blade
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It's begin to seem something not bad.
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Some clamp and go
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Not bad.
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I punched
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I centered the hole.
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3,3mm hole
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Counterbored the hole.
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3,8mm hole, and reamed to 4mm
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120 grit to clean
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It something like that.
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I draw the center.
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I grind with 60 grit ceramic belt.
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The grind is not so easy to do, it's the first time :D
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It's better i begin to have the "hand".
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WIth fine grit it's better.
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The idea is here.
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Closed
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Open
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Some Filework.
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Bad picture.
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I cooked some niolox
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I worked on the spacer.
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Scotch and drill.
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I keep the temperature during 20mn
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The ceramic kiln.
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Spacer drilled to 1,7mm.
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I drilled throught the handle.
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Some hole.
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Some hole.
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Centering drill bit.
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5mm hole.
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Centering drill bit
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I drilled to 1,9 the 1,7mm hole.
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I countersinked the handle to 90°
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I cleaned a bit.
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I cleaned to 240
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I tappered the spacer.
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I check if it's always ok
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I make various thing in the same time.
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Scotch brit 280
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I etched
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I etched the name of the designer
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Poliching
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The etching is ok
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It's more or less clean.
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240 to reduce the grind
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It's more or less what i wanted to have.
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Not bad.
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Glass blasting
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Some polishing work.
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I built one more time.
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I cut the spacer.
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I shaped the spacer.
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I have a scheme, i checked with the scheme.
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kit
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100c6 that i cut to make tang pins
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I pinned the tang
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It's pinned.
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Polishing work.
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I draw the point where i grind the tang cup.
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It's ok
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I cut the M2 and M3.
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First real building.
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I need to clean
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Re building and i continu to adjust the tang
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I countersinked with the belt.
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280 scotch brit
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It's not to much ugly
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the kit
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I burned
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I continued
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What i wanted is ok
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It's cooked
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Finished
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Loctite is my friend.
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Not bad with the scheme
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The Piw Balisong : 3mm Niolox blade ,10,5 cm sharp. Ti handle and spacer
22 cm long , 14 cm open. 16mm thick to the top screw..

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Some video of my hairy knee :D

http://youtu.be/w6VKRwmuIsw

Not it's was just to show that with the curved it's possible to flip.
 
So very impressive - photos as well as the craftsmanship of building. GREAT job.

Ken H>
 
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