Trying out the new photo size.
This one is 3 5/8 closed CPM-154 blades and spring, integral 416 liners and bolsters, with jigged bone handles. Shield in inlayed and pinned, mill relieved at the pivots and file worked liners. Any opinions critiques or comments welcome.
Craig
Both the photos and your slip joint folder look great! Outstanding filework!
Dan Cassidy
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Beautiful! Nothing like a well made slip joint. So the bolsters and liners are integral? Nice.
Love it Craig! Great little carry knife, just the right touches.
Brion
Brion Tomberlin
Anvil Top Custom Knives
ABS Mastersmith
Beautiful work Craig!!! These are half sunk joints? Or maybe, one joint is half sunk and one is full sunk?
Thanks everyone.
This knife also has a catch bit or spacer with a thinner short blade to allow the long blade to pass the tang of the small blade when closed. I call the main blade sunken and the small blade normal for lack of a better description.
The small blade when closed is higher on this knife because I made the blade wider from spine to edge. I have a friend that wanted to see one with a thicker pen blade like this. The handle pattern is from a stockman I make and I normally make the pen blade thinner from spine to edge and round the end of the spring down. Some it called under bladed when the spring is rounded down and that sounds like a good enough description for me. Under bladed works well on cigar shaped handles to allow the rounded handle ends.
Here is a photo of an extreme example of the rounded spring end.
A different knife looking at the spine where the spring are rounded on the ends.
Very nice. I am a suckered for a slip joint. I look forward to seeing what you have in Kansas City.
Chris
