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Blade is tempering for a total of two hours so now what do we do? We start building the handles ! First I flattened the outside of the liners again to get rid of any burrs around the pin holes, then I cut and squared bolster material and flattened the side that will be soldered to the scale.next...

After tearing the first assembly apart I hand sanded the tang of the blade with 600 grit sandpaper to remove those awful precision ground grinding marks and got the majority of the file marks out of the blade, she’s ready for heat treat…. After her oil bath I will temper the blade twice at 375*...

and how did you get that beautiful flat grind? I can never get mine to come out that flawless

Love this !!!! It sure is nice having the spring and all the holes already lined up in the liner isn’t it ?? I’m gonna be following this one excited to see what kind of scales you put on the old girl

Time to set the spring tension, I like a fairly stout spring so using the calipers I lined up the rear of the run up on the blade with the top tip of the spring and moved the spring .050 under the tang. This allows for a decent pull weight.Then we drilled the rear spring hole in the first liner...

Well after a little grinding and a little bit of file work , we have the blade even in all three positions, I left 2 thousandths rise in the half stop and closed position because I cannot apply as much pressure with my thumb as the spring will when loaded. This usually works out to be about...

I cut the nail nick in on the mill with a 60* dovetail cutter

Now it’s time to start on the tang and spring pair up as you can see from the first set up there is going to be a lot of material come off both the spring and tang. Next up I coat The spring with some tool makers dye, I like this stuff because it seems to get darker when it gets hot when...

Yessir ! I will set the tension with the rear of the spring on this one. I leave a little extra meat on top of the spring and liner to be ground flush once the tension is set and spring is heat treated.

Now time to grind the blade, I like to set the spring and blade on the liners when I’m working the spring and tang down to fit so I grind the blade to keep from scratching my liner too awful bad. I’ve got to warn you though my blade grinding skills are the equivalent of whittling a pointy stick...

de-burring and flattening everything on a small piece of tempered glass, unfortunately my big chunk of micarta I use for layout work has a bow in it and I can’t use it for flattening . I need to find a slab of granite or a bigger piece of glass ! I roughed out the stag after I split it on a...

Hey guys , starting a new slipjoint this morning ! This is a Chris Crawford design so all credit goes to him, it’s a great little everyday knife . I’m going to be using PG 01 tool steel, .040 nickel silver liners , 5/32 nickel silver bolsters (that will be worked down a lot thinner) and some...

Hey all, I’m looking to purchase a knife dogs rise fall jig. They are out of stock on the website , I like the design of this one since you can put constant and consistent tension on the rear of the spring . If anyone has one they would like to let go please pm me! I have PayPal ready to go...

I love the bone ! Is that an orange bone ? Almost like “sunrise” colors ! Great looking knife !

Thanks for the kind words guys ! Glad to be here and hope to learn and develop here!

Hey all , this is my take on a Chris Crawford EDC-1, these little things carry well and the full flat grind lets you get them razor sharp! Thanks for looking !

Hey all ! My name is JD, I have collected knives for years and am just now starting to make some ( part of the disease I think )but any how hear a few pics of my latest ! Thanks for looking !