We should all be thanking you Augie.
Mike, the jigging machine was a simple metal box with a dremel like motor. Your premium custom knifemakers use something similar today to recreate bone
jigging of the past. Hopefully Mitch will add to that. He has first hand experience on the device and the jigging process.
It wasn't a huge elaborate machine. Cargill had a way of simplifying a seemingly complex task with as little expense possible.
The guy's smart that way.
" Let's see that machine" Let's be realistic.
As for the Shields, you can probably figure that out by looking at the hinges on a door.
Greg
This info is from new Forum Member Mitch Phelps. He is the son of Frank Phelps. Frank and Cargill were good friends and when Cargill was president of the NKCA
Frank was Vice President. Frank was also the one who had Cargill make the Chief Anderson knives. Mitch was aquanted with Cargill and attended many knife shows with his Dad, Frank.
This is what Mitch had to say about the Jigging Machine:
One of my summer jobs when I was in college was jigging bleach bone and strawberry bone handles. Bob would send them to dad an I’d jig them.
I smelled like a dentist office all summer because the bone dust flying around.
It was a home made jigging machine, he bought it from someone, could of been Bob. It was a little aluminum box, with a Dremel like stationary motor.
You turned one handle for left and right and another to up and down..
It was basically an aluminum rectangle box. It had a stationary rotary tool with multiple bur bits that where probably .5” total across. I believe the box was about 10” wide by 16” long.
It had a clamp at one end to hold the handles down. It also had 2 aluminum handles one to move vertically and one to move horizontal.