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Mike, What I am referring to is chucking the pins up in the drill press before installing them on the knife. This allows me to spin them at high speed and clean them up with sandpaper. It removes all the grime, dirt etc so I have a nice clean pin. This lessens the chance that the pin will show...

I may show my ugly mug as well. What time you going George?

Once the bolsters are soldered and you are ready to work on the handles, you need to make sure there is no left over solder where the bolster meets the handle material. I have taken a small piece of lathe tooling, sharpened it and stuck it into a file handle. Use the sharpened edge to scrape...

Milling a relief area in the liners allows the blade to rotate without scraping the sides of the liners and leaving ugly scratches on the blade tang. The goal here is to mill out a area that will act as a washer, and an area the same size as the tang. You want the milled area to start right at...

Continued................. Here is the critical part of making a slipjoint. Getting all the parts to fit together. For this part, I use a rise and fall indicator as shown below. This improves the accuracy of the fit and will allow you to make more accurate adjustment. I made this rise and fall...

The galling issue could also be caused by the thickness of the spring. If the spring is even .0005 thicker than the tang, it will bind. For a proper fit, the end of the spring (in front of the pin) should be thinner than the blade tang by .001 to .0015 to allow the spring to rise and fall...

I'll bend the spring about the same distance as the thickness of the spring. Seems to work fine for me.

I set my spring by manually bending it prior to heat treat.

I have been asked a few times to put a tutorial together so here we go.This tutorial is also posted on my web site.http://www.medawebs.com/knives/tutorials/Slipjoint/Slipjoint_Introduction.htm The most difficult part of making a slipjoint is getting the geometries of the tang and spring to...

I received a few emails lately asking me how I solder the bolsters on my slipjoints so I thought I would throw together a quick tutorial. This will show you the soldering technique only. How to get the bolsters to align together etc is a tutorial for another day. The products I use are Stay...

Thanks Jim. I actually have two peanuts on the bench. One in mammoth and the other in MOP. I finally got a pattern made that I like and works the way I wanted. Coming soon!

Great job on the peanut. It's a shame that the material chipped out. Looks like real nice piece of pearl too.

Thanks for the compliments. They are appreciated.

Yup, That sounds about right too!

You are most welcome my friend. Have a great Christmas. By the way Wayne, I did try some of his Ghost Chili Relish a while back. I've been sitting on a ice cream cone ever since.

George, Email me your login information and I'll see if I can get you going again.

A buddy of mine mixes 1/4 cup of brown sugar into 1lb of ground beef to make his burgers. Sound a bit strange but they are fantastic.

Single Blade Jack with Maple Burl CPM154CM Blade and Spring Stainless bolsters, pins and Shield Flush in all three positions 3 3/4" closed Bill's Custom Case SOLD!

CPM154CM Blade and Spring 3 5/8" Closed Fully Fileworked 410 Stainless Liners 416 Stainless bolsters, pins and shield Flush when open, closed and at half stop Includes a "Bill's" Custom Case SOLD!! Thanks for lookin'

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