All About Pocket Knives

okay......well thanx to a couple here at AAPK (glennbad & wiseguy) i was able to do this project in my
ghetto/low budget garage
i bought this off another member here.....thanx blister!!!!
it was in ROUGH shape.........both scales broken....someone used it as a PRY BAR .......so it had
bent liners......up and down play...side to side wobble....gaps between tang and liners kinda TWISTED look to it???....and a popped loose bolster on one side(the solder failed) .........but had THAT LOOK
so i did my research.....and went at my 1st re handle job

ok here we go start to finish......

1-dale did a write up on how to SPLIT a knife with rubber tip hammer and a razor blade........
i didn't have a rubber hammer ..so made my own.lol bike tube and duct tape.

WORKED AWESOME DALE!!! LIKE BUTTER........

2-RAZOR CUTTING THOUGH PINS

3-ALL CUT AND APART

4-WHEN I CUT PIVOT PIN BOLSTER FELL OFF (SOLDER HAD FAILED)

5-BOLSTER that fell off

1-ROOT BEER JIGGED BONE SCALES FROM GLENN
AND PIVOT PIN ROD FROM WISEGUY


2-GIFTED GOODS AND THE BRASS ROD I HAD ON HAND

3-MARKED OUT LINER ON BONE

4- just showin old scales off liners

5-roughing out shape with dremel

1-roughing out

2-roughing out.....still

3-side by side....one side done....other in works

4-sanding back of bone

5-sanding- 220 sticky back on top of a flat wood box......smooth and rough up to glue on liner

1-when ready....wiped down roughed up liner and bone with rubbing alcohol,let air dry

2-wipe everything GOOD

3-ALL CLEAN AN DRY...LIL DAB OF GLUE...just to keep everything in place

4-clamp leave over nite.........ugggg


5-scrape any glue they squeezed out pin holes or on edges

1-in vise....with dremel drum sander.....sand down to liner...just close..can hand sand /finish sand later


2-to protect bolster i taped it....i had this vinyl type tape on hand...it worked AWESOME...thick and sticky
it is for gym type floors to make lines on floor for games/sports

3-sanded close to liner

4-still square up by bolster

5-knocked squared area down by bolster with dremel...just roughing....not perfect!

1-drill holes for brass pins


2-make sure the recess in back of liner is cleaned out after drilling/gluing so pin can mushroom in there


3-bone glued to liner....hole drilled....ready for a brass pin


4-pin stock cut and ready to begin pinning process


5-hammer to begin mushroom......

1-mushroomed liner side of pin (brass rod)


2-file flat against liner (i raised so you could see the pin flat) sit flush with liner!


3-the 2 pins that hold bone to liner FILED FLAT ON BACK.


4-now flip...and trim rods.......begin peening top of pin to pull bone tight to liner.


5-trimmed...file head FLAT......(you can see the 2 holes at butt end that will hold the to handle together)

1-starting to peen pin

2-starting to get there...peen...file flat...peen.....file....peen till size you want


3-both gettin close.............


4-when pin head size shape i like...and i felt done......went around each with a piece of rod and a hammer and peened down mushroom edges....so no snagging...


5-pins DONE....... .......this is my first time doing any of this.....so my way may be wrong?? but seemed to work for me.....hehe

1-time to put it all back together.....back spring 1st


2-blade pin taped in place.....ready to put pin in spring


3- in vise..compress....then i had to FIDGET with screwdriver to line up hole.tap pin in

4-pin in spring shooooooooooooooooooooooooooo scarey

peen rest of brass pins and move to nickel pivot pin


5-time to do PIVOT PIN.......MAN O MAN this had me nervous!!!!! made 2 shims for blade pivot
.003 and a .004...........had a old feeler gauge,just cut notches

Hey Josh, that looks like it's coming along great!

Hey Dale, it looks like we hooked another one!!!

Can't wait to see more pics....

almost there fellas.................

1-here are both shims...one will slide in on each side


2-shims in ready to peen pivot


3-start peening and fileing..........back and forth.....rotate sides and peen/file/peen/file
you will see it when in hand.....mushroom then knock top off


4-peen and file to bolster......checking shims for tightness....and blade for wobble and open/close


5-file smooth.....

and here SHE IS BOYS!!!!!!!
not done yet but all the hard stuff is......now smooth out and polish buff!




i will show the end pix ASAP....prolly polish today

smoothed out....not buffed/polished yet



sorry so pic heavy...........and i can STILL CAN only post 5 pix per post...even changed my camera around again.....not sure whats up now??? heheheh but you get the idea


MORE PIX TO COME ASAP!!!

forgot to add:
now that scales & pins are replaced...it is TIGHT AND SNAPPY ...LOCK UP IS TIGHT, ALL WAYS,
WORKS LIKE FACTORY NEW.....



and a pic of where all the MAGIC happened...lolololol

only used a couple tools......and my two anvils
the bigger rectangle i bought from an old dude who made knives local....and SAID it is a CUTLERS ANVIL
i have no clue...but it is HEAVY/heat teated/has diff angles squares rounds all aorund it........ever seen or heard of one guys??? of was old dude blowin smoke??? lolol

and my lil old IRON i have about 5......most have diff shaped heels work great as improvised anvil for small jobs

All I can say is watch out Muskrat Man, there's a new kid in town.

Great job on the knife and also a super job showing the process in pictures. Thanks for the extra effort you put into doing the pics for us.

I wasn't sure how that corncob would look on the knife, but it looks pretty nice! That's a great job, looks like you're an old pro.

Don't be shy about knocking down those edges on the bone. It'll make for thinner carry in the pocket, and bring some more color out in the bone as well.

Regardless, fantastic job!

That's fantastic Josh

Makes me want to got to the garage and tear a knife apart ..NAW

thanx glenn and phil!!!!!

no prob on pix.........alot here (previous posts/pix)helped me!!!

it really is pretty easy and straight forward, once ya get over the gutless feelin of tearin a knife up.lolol

and you only need a couple tools......realizing all jobs are diffrent.

hardest part=putting spring pin in............and i worried about the pivot pin lololol

easiest (for me) doin the pins...but i did SWEAT chippin bone the WHOLE TIME...LOLOLOL



AGAIN THANX....HOPE IT HELPS OTHERS

THANX GLENN


BASS- DO IT.....DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!

IF I CAN....ANYBODY CAN LOLOL (fused neck,no right wrist,bum hip from graphs,and nerve disorder)
and were two peas in a pod,bro.llololl, so i know YOU CAN! GO ON ,GET OUT THERE!
i had to make a few tools to work with my wrist.......but heck we are use ta that
HAHAHA i should call it THE GIMP GARAGE...not THE GHETTO GARAGE....LAFFFFIN

Great job Junebug! Thanks for posting all the steps...I thoroughly enjoyed this post

basser5 wrote:That's fantastic Josh

Makes me want to got to the garage and tear a knife apart ..NAW

Tim if you had some of my junk instead of all those minty Germans it would be a lot easier for you to take the plunge. Need me to send you a starter knife ?

junebug wrote:IF I CAN....ANYBODY CAN LOLOL (fused neck,no right wrist,bum hip from graphs,and nerve disorder)
and were two peas in a pod,bro.llololl, so i know YOU CAN! GO ON ,GET OUT THERE!
i had to make a few tools to work with my wrist.......but heck we are use ta that
HAHAHA i should call it THE GIMP GARAGE...not THE GHETTO GARAGE....LAFFFFIN

You don't know how much that sounds like me & my shop!
When I applied for Social Security Disability, (because my doctor made me) the lady at the SSI office asked me "Please don't being in any more medical documentation!" I said, "but you don't have..." "We have MORE than enough," she said.
My medical file is like a text book for Orthopedic Surgeons.

But I totally agree, "where there is a will, there is a way," as my momma says!
I have made tools to help me compensate for my physical disabilities. And while I may not be able to work as long as a healthy young man, I can work with more passion, because I really love what I am doing enough to work through the pain!

Really nice job on that, but like Glenn said, don't be afraid to knock down the edges on that bone, it will being out a lot more color!

Glenn, I do believe you are right, Junie is Hooked!

philco wrote:

basser5 wrote:That's fantastic Josh

Makes me want to got to the garage and tear a knife apart ..NAW

Tim if you had some of my junk instead of all those minty Germans it would be a lot easier for you to take the plunge. Need me to send you a starter knife ?

Hey Phil that's great ...offering to send me a Canal Street

I really appreciate it


Tim

WOW COOL OF PHIL
canal street bass.....imagine that! what a KIND gesture PHIL

should probably send 2........ JUST .......IN...............CASE!
YOU KNOW ol'fumble thumbs!!!

man thats COOL...A CANAL STREET FROM PHIL


THANX LAWRENCE.....you have several cool ones i have seen


THANKS DALE
SAD THING FOR ME DALE....i stroll in and look young and pretty health....till like you ,i whip out my BINDER-O-MEDICAL REPORTS
then they are like: WOW REALLY MAN???? I AINT READIN ALL THAT,........SORRY,BOUT YER LUCK,PAL