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Hi,
started working on my first folder (Backlock) some two weeks ago, which is my fifth knife in total (see first 4 here). Did not intent on making a WIP, just made a couple occasional pics. for my personal documentation and thought it may interest somebody. Try not to forget making more pics in the weeks to come.
As the others, this one will be all titanium once finished, just a little Micarta added for scales.
Blade is BT23 and the liners, hammer, spring and spacer is Gr. 38 Ti.
Here are all parts rough cut with a bandsaw. Have no power tools, everything is and will be done with files and sandpaper only, except for the holes of course.
Next step was to flat grind everything before drilling, just one pic of the rough cut blade blank on a granite surface plate.
Once parts were flat, i drilled most of the holes (no pic) and started with the slot on the blade.
Started with the lock first because i did not know how it will work out and did not want to waste more time then necessary on profiling and stuff like that.
After the blade i started working on the hammer, it worked out fine and we have a lock up.
Also did the rough profiling of the blade.
After a few more hours i got the spacer roughly done and the leaf spring made.
This is how it looks closed, still a lot of tuning necessary.
Speaking of tuning, i had to make a new hammer and was not happy with the spring, so i made new ones. Spring is not cut to length yet and hammer needs a little more work too, but overall it is starting to look like a knife.
That's it for now. Next step is tuning the hammer and spring and start cleaning up the profile and tune the blade seating in in opened and closed position.
Then sand all parts down to final thickness and start grinding the blade bevels.
Blade with run on phosp. bronze washer, with double thumb studs, all pivot barrels will be replaced with Titanium ones, lock faces and all contact points will be additionally carbidized although not necessary i guess. but better safe then sorry.
started working on my first folder (Backlock) some two weeks ago, which is my fifth knife in total (see first 4 here). Did not intent on making a WIP, just made a couple occasional pics. for my personal documentation and thought it may interest somebody. Try not to forget making more pics in the weeks to come.
As the others, this one will be all titanium once finished, just a little Micarta added for scales.
Blade is BT23 and the liners, hammer, spring and spacer is Gr. 38 Ti.
Here are all parts rough cut with a bandsaw. Have no power tools, everything is and will be done with files and sandpaper only, except for the holes of course.
Next step was to flat grind everything before drilling, just one pic of the rough cut blade blank on a granite surface plate.
Once parts were flat, i drilled most of the holes (no pic) and started with the slot on the blade.
Started with the lock first because i did not know how it will work out and did not want to waste more time then necessary on profiling and stuff like that.
After the blade i started working on the hammer, it worked out fine and we have a lock up.
Also did the rough profiling of the blade.
After a few more hours i got the spacer roughly done and the leaf spring made.
This is how it looks closed, still a lot of tuning necessary.
Speaking of tuning, i had to make a new hammer and was not happy with the spring, so i made new ones. Spring is not cut to length yet and hammer needs a little more work too, but overall it is starting to look like a knife.
That's it for now. Next step is tuning the hammer and spring and start cleaning up the profile and tune the blade seating in in opened and closed position.
Then sand all parts down to final thickness and start grinding the blade bevels.
Blade with run on phosp. bronze washer, with double thumb studs, all pivot barrels will be replaced with Titanium ones, lock faces and all contact points will be additionally carbidized although not necessary i guess. but better safe then sorry.
. Makes me want to give one a go once I get a little/lot more confidence. It's great that you're doing it with basic hand tools also, I can relate to that and can't wait to see some more pics of the progress 
