Thanks, Lee. It is very gratifying to make something that is unique and individual.m0nk wrote:Tony, hat's off!! Isn't it liberating to produce something for yourself that you can't get anywhere else? Did you figure out why the backspring broke, and did you do anything different to prevent breakage next time?
Lee
After that first backspring broke I went back to reading. Two things were improper on the broken one: first, the spring was too thick, and thus did not 'spring' as it should have; second, the temper was wrong. The spring needed to to be tempered more than what I had drawn it back to. I made four new springs after that initial fail, and tested two of them. The spring in the knife now was tested 250 times before I pinned the knife together.