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Thanks guys. I think I will go with the Grizzly setup. Just got my mini mill so working trying to get the rotary table lined out with my aluminum plate for milling stop pin tracks!

Yea, I was thinking that I was gonna have to break down and get a cabinet/compressor. The only problem is the compressor. I only have 110 available to my shop, so that limits me on how many CFM I can get. Best I have found so far is a Grizzly compressor that has "The 2-1/2 HP motor operates...

So I don't have a blast cabinet (yet). What other ways are there to finish titanium scales to give them that gunmetal gray broken in look? I have thought about hitting with with my scotchbrite belt and putting them in the vibratory tumbler with the HF ceramic media. Anyone go that route...

I'll give that a try and let you know. In the meantime I have started another blade. I'm going down a rabbit hole with this one.

It's around .040-.045

As it sits now, it has around 30-40% lockup. If I push it over, it will go to around 70% lockup, but the lock rock goes away. So I can either bend the lockbar more so it has a higher % lock up. I can peen the lock bar to deform it a bit and get that earlier lock up. I can put a larger stop...

When holding the knife in the open position, tip up and cutting edge towards me, the lock bar is contacting the lock face on the left side closest to me. I ground the lock face so that the lock bar isn't contacting the lock face towards the spine of the knife, only towards the edge side of the...

Yea, I was afraid of that. I've started making some new blades. I really don't want to mess with the geometry or permanently change the lock bar and stuff. Oh well. Learning opportunity I suppose. I ground the lock face at 8.5 degrees. From what I can see, it is locking up at the lower...

Yea, I was afraid of that. It was a nice 30-40% lock up when I initially ground the lock face. I don't know if the heat treat did something to the metal (1084) or what happened. My heart sank when I assembled it and saw that. So now I'm debating whether to peen the lock face (permantely...

I will try that tonight. I did notice that I could manually push the lock bar almost to the other liner when the knife is slammed open, so I've got to do something to either elongate the lock bar by peening the leading edge or by putting in a larger stop pin so the blade doesn't open quite as...

So I made my 2nd and 3rd liner lock knives recently. Got pretty much everything done and fitted up. During the final fit and test, I noticed that both had some lock rock. Meaning I could move the blade slightly in the open/close direction. It isn't much, but enough to not let it be. These...

Great job!

Thanks for all the tips! I plan on using a 9/64 end mill to mill the stop pin track. I have the exact measurement from the center of my pivot to the center of the stop pin locations. I figured I will just center the rotary table, clamp the blade with a pivot through the blade and into the...

Beautiful! How'd you do the nail nicks?

I am waiting to get my milling machine (3 weeks UGH!). In the meantime I am stockpiling the stuff I need to make some linerlock/frame lock knives and designing folders on draftsight. I have made my first liner lock and now am hooked! I bought a rotary table for my milling machine and bought...

From what I have read, it is limited by the amount of DC current you can generate. I've only seen people do it with 9V batteries in a series, but there are different setups that you can get that will get lots of different colors I think.

Would you be willing to share the process?

Awesome work! How did you darken the Ti liners?

Looks Great! Can we see the lock up?

Thank you guys for all your help and explaining what I need. After contacting the drill press manufacturer, it appears that I have a MT 2 taper where the arbor inserts into my drill press and a JT 3 taper where the arbor inserts into my chuck. If I am understanding this correctly, I can have a...