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All right, I'm tired of waiting.
Several of you guys owe me some photos of your WIP and finished knives. Consider yourselves reprimanded. It's a good thing you're not in my platoon. I'd have you cleaning the latrine with toothbrushes! |
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oh oh!!.....I better hurry up!
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Don starting on my second toothpick waiting on more mats to get here.....
__________________ It's a passion, plain and simple! |
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Yeah, Victor, hurry up.
James, that's great. Please let us watch your WIP when you get started. I've just gotten started on a button lock. I revised my design some and am building a prototype to be sure it works as it should.. |
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Sorry Don been trying to get several finished all at once taking them all insteps togather. Marked the liners for 5 folders today will cut the relief tomorrow, and spot-weld the bolsters.
Curtis Wilson __________________ Curtis Wilson Wilson's Custom Knives, Engraving, and Scrimshaw |
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Don where do we sign up for the button lock class..
__________________ It's a passion, plain and simple! |
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Let me get the first prototype done and we'll see if there is interest. I have the blade roughed out for the second one now. My button lock design is unique. It uses a leaf spring instead of a torsion spring around the pivot. I hate the common ones that open with such a shock you can hear it a block away. And cause you to drop it. This one opens silently with only a slight click like a linerlock when you open it. My knife can also be opened by hand, so if you're at church it won't frighten the sheeple away. I'm in a lot of pain now and it makes it impossible to work more than a couple of hours a day unless I can work sitting at my bench, so I'm hesitant about starting another thread, but some of you know I can't resist a challenge. So, if you wanna, say so loudly! |
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By the way, my button lock design doesn't require anything special to build it. A milling machine isn't necessary.
If you have the tools to build a slipjoint you can also build the button lock. That is, if you have a metal lathe to make the button. Or a friend who will do that for you. Last edited by Don Robinson; 07-05-2009 at 07:32 AM. Reason: Added metal lathe info. |
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At any rate GAME ON
__________________ It's a passion, plain and simple! Last edited by lpspurgeon; 07-05-2009 at 10:34 PM. |
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James, I'm hesitant about starting a new button lock WIP for several reasons.
1. I don't want to interfere with Papi's automatic thread right now. 2. My health 3. I think I may want to use the WIP in a new book on building button lock folders. That's a lot of work, but I may as well earn a few dollars with a new book instead of giving it away. Keep on keepin' on with your slipjoints for awhile. You're doin' good. And be sure to show us your work. |
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Sorry for the delay on mine Don we got a break in the weather so I have been doing hay the last 2 weeks 6am to 10pm , I have been beat so no work in the last 2 weeks. I have 1 more day and then I am back to work on my folder .
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That's good news, Mike. I was afraid everybody else had lost interest.
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#433
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Not me just that dang hay takes priority over everything especially when we are already 6 weeks behind on the cut due to weather.
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Well, make hay while the sun shines Mike.
Alfalfa? |
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We grow grass here Don although I did just finish 17 acres of oat hay yesterday.
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