Sand the inside of the thick liners or both sides of the .040 liners. I milled the relief on the thin liners and glued some micarta on wi...

When milling this cut I watch from the rear of the machine to see the line I marked for the end of the cut. Then I crank the rotary table the other wa...

I painted more dykem on the pivot end of the inside of the handles so I can make some marks for milling the relief cuts. These are guide lines for me ...

Time to get moving on this project again. I finished heat treating 2 blades and 3 springs and surface ground one to start with. I pulled the blad...

Welcome Calvin, it's good to have you with us.

Dan you did a great job with the video. I think it is fair to say we all had a great time working on this knife. It was a very productive week i...

Looks like we are making a little progress. I will give it a little time for everyone to get their tools and materials in. I figured it might be easie...

Nail nicks Depending on how you intend on cutting the nail nick will determine when you need to cut the nick. You can use a fly cutter for a cres...

You can see that the spring covers the tang across the half stop position this is what we want. At the closed position the spring stops at the end of ...

As you can see the spring is slightly oversized on the spine. The blade is also just above the back of the handle and not profiled all the way to the ...

Put the blade in a file guide and line up the scribe mark for the run up. Use the modified flat file to file to the line. Being careful f...

[quote name='Jack Fuller' date='10 January 2016 - 01:59 PM' timestamp='1452455984' post='15769'] Yes Craig that sounds good. I would like to join i...

I use 1/4 inch from SB Specialty Metal. SB Specialty Metal They also have 3/16 ground 416 that may help those without access to a surface grinder.

.040 - .050 on liners works good, I get it from K&G for center liners on multi blades. For foil I think USA knife makers supply has small amounts get ...