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Tutorials - Making Another Folding Knife
A folding knife part of a fixed blade and folder collaboration with Ariel Salaverria.
Customer drawings and future blade. (Pictures 1 and 2)

Designing the handle. (Picture 3)

Shaped liners. (Pictures 4 and 5)

Drawing the backspacer. (Picture 6)

Taking the drawing to a steel plate to later cut it. (Picture 7)
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Backspacer roughly in shape. (Picture 8)

Placed in position. (Picture 9)

Cutting the locking liner. (Picture 10)

Adjusting the lock. (Picture 11)

Retouchs for the pivot. (Picture 12)

Blade adjustment. (Pictures 13 and 14)
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All the pieces together. (Picture 15)

Test build. (Picture 16)

Eating the blade for the ambidextrous opening disk. (Pictures 17 and 18)

Finished process. (Picture 19)

Drilling for the disk's pin. (Picture 20)

Threading it. (Pictures 21 and 22)
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Testing the screw fit. (Pictures 23 and 24)

Fileworking the spine of the blade. (Pictures 25, 26 and 27)

Finished filework. (Picture 28)
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Grinding the blade. (Picture 29)

Fileworking the backspacer. (Picture 30)

Heat treating the blade. (Pictures 31 and 32)

HT'd blade. (Picture 33)

Making the finger grooves. (Picture 34)

Ready to be ensambled with the bolsters and micarta slabs. (Picture 35)
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Half way done. (Picture 36)
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