A Little Different Slipjoint Knife

[paps]

I recently acquired a milling machine and have been having lots of fun playing with it. Decided to try my hand at making a slipjoint knife with integral bolsters. The left and right halfs were milled out of 2 pieces of 416 stainless steel to make the frame. The blade and backspring are made of D2 tool steel. Handles are desert ironwood burl. This worked out pretty good and makes a very slim knife. Thanks for taking a look. -Phil Tham

 

[Scott.tudhope]

That's a nice knife!!

 

[holmqer]

Very nice, did you make all the parts yourself?

 

[paps]

Yes Eric, made from scratch. Thanks for the comments!

 

[GaTurner83]

Very nice knife......my other hobby besides turning is making knives but mine are nothing compared to that one.

 

[thewishman]

Phil, that is an awesome knife! Knife making has been fascinating to me for the last few years. Looks like a tight little package with clean lines and great fit.

 

[ghostrider]

Knice!

Did you do some kind of heat treatment for the blade? D2 was Dozier's realm, and they say that he was good with that.

 

[paps]

Thanks to all for the nice comments!

Ghostrider, the blade and backspring both have to be heat treated...a two step process where the steel is first hardened and then tempered. The spring has to be tempered at a higher temperature than the blade. I have a programmable kiln to do this.

 

[jd99]

Thanks to all for the nice comments!

Ghostrider, the blade and backspring both have to be heat treated...a two step process where the steel is first hardened and then tempered. The spring has to be tempered at a higher temperature than the blade. I have a programmable kiln to do this.

Are you wrapping the D2 in the Stainless heat treat wrap or can you heat treat in a vacuum?

 

[cnirenberg]

That is one sweet knife. I love it. Thanks for posting!!

 

[socdad]

I love the knife; it would fit nicely into my collection!:biggrin:

 

[ghostrider]

Thanks to all for the nice comments!

Ghostrider, the blade and backspring both have to be heat treated...a two step process where the steel is first hardened and then tempered. The spring has to be tempered at a higher temperature than the blade. I have a programmable kiln to do this.

Thanks.
That's cool.

 

[paps]

jd99 -Yes, I use the stainless foil wrap for heat treating.

socdad - That could be arranged ;-)

I'm really enjoying that mill. Have some more ideas I'm itchin' to try. Thanks again for the support!!!

 

[tkbarron]

Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing.

Tom

 

[reiddog1]

Wow, that is very good. Very streamline and tight looking. I've been interested in making knives, but can't find a lot of info for it. Great job on yours, looks outstanding.

 

[toyotaman]

Great looking knifves. I would love to learn the process. I love to collect knifves and this would be great to be able to actually make your own from scratch.