All About Pocket Knives

No biggie, I will start moving such questions/observations to the other forums in the knife making areas.

I also apologize for hijacking this thread, again! ::facepalm:: I don't drink much anymore, so drink recipes aren't of a whole lot of interest to me anymore, but thanks for the offer. If you want to post off topic, there's the "First Cup Diner" thread in the "General Off Topic" ...

You sure do seem to know your alcohol Ab! Are you a friend of Bill Wilson? Your recipe sounds delicious, I'll have to try it, and I LOVE black licorice. I also am waaay too old to be shooting back shots anymore but mixed the way you suggested sounds really good. Oh, and I am completely seasoned on ...

Thanks for the detailed explanation of Absinthe, Absinthe! LOL! I was going to buy a bottle and just pour an ounce to shoot back, but that sounds like the wrong way to drink the stuff, considering they suggest only rinsing your glass with it. I really enjoyed the link too! 8) It's in the neighborho...

Absinthe! First of all, I love your username, I was watching Van Helsing over the weekend and there's a scene where the monster is carrying the Dr. up the stairs of the windmill and there are Absinthe bottles scattered all over the stairs, and every time I see that I want to try the drink! Please d...

Absinthe! First of all, I love your username, I was watching Van Helsing over the weekend and there's a scene where the monster is carrying the Dr. up the stairs of the windmill and there are Absinthe bottles scattered all over the stairs, and every time I see that I want to try the drink! Please d...

Didn't mean to cut down your knife but it is what it is. You have taken it apart and that's more than a lot of people would try. Good luck! Nah! Not your fault, I keep forgetting how to use the internet. :) I neither specified my intentions correctly, nor asked the question in such a way that I wou...

I have it all apart now. I don't know how to tell stainless from plated steel apparently, but the only thing that took any rust were the screw heads and the pivot. Well, both springs look like they are pretty rusty. So, I will try to locate and find replacement springs. Since I don't have the bolste...

Chinese gas station/flea market knife. I seem to have found them in "Russia" .ru .ua .kz and some from Alibaba that is a Russian vendor. I am not seeing anything to do with China. The only online store that isn't covered in Cyrillic writing seems to be that MilitaryWorld which seems to be...

Okay, I know she's in a really bad way. But most of the parts are there and the mechanism works (or at least it will when I add a stop pin that is missing in the top) This looks like it was either lost in the mud, or tossed away so as not to be caught with it. Funny, the majority of the knife is ma...

Okay, I know she's in a really bad way. But most of the parts are there and the mechanism works (or at least it will when I add a stop pin that is missing in the top) This looks like it was either lost in the mud, or tossed away so as not to be caught with it. Funny, the majority of the knife is mad...

Thanks for your wonderful comments. It is almost there. But the second one, is definitely going to wait for Bosch to send me back my saw.

Okay folks, first try. Did my best with the band saw, and took a whack at it with the belt grinder. It's not perfect, and I have a bit of stuff left to do to it. But here's what I's starting with: s1.jpg s2.jpg s3.jpg s4.jpg s5.jpg It is made from a 6" round of D2 1-1/2" thick. The initial...

Okay, here is one anyone can make... :) It's "built up", and can be held in a vise. I did the drawing with 2 pieces of 1/4 and one piece of 1/8, but the only thing critical is the 1/8. I have seen designs where the step is 1/8 and others 1/4 so meh. I guess, use what you have. :) The 1/8 p...

Am I reading those dimensions correctly? The top face of the stiddy is only 1.5 inches wide? And the thin edge is only 0.0625 inches? Yikes, I didn't know they were that small. It makes sense, I'm just thinking that would be quite difficult to machine. The width in both designs is 1-1/2" The l...

Well, I have never laid hands on one, but I would love to. However, having seen now 2 different engineering drawings of them, I thought I could do a little CAD for them. One is from Harris' book on knife repair. And the other seems to be a very common image posted on pintrest and other places when t...

So other than Levine's, Case's old catalogs, and Queens old catalogs what else to look for?

Just found Levine's 5 under 30 so I pulled the trigger on it. That will be a start.

According to Levine, who used the term “Handle-Die Shape”, each manufacturer had a Pattern Book and each example of any of their patterns, adhered to that in the book. That, of course, would mean that, most likely, there are differences in the common patterns from maker to maker, so nailing down di...

You say "body", most knife folks say "pattern" for knife shape and "frame" for body. "Levines Guide to Knives and Their Values" is the "bible" of knife collecting and does list most pocket knife patterns and gives a little history of the pattern and...

"Not sure how to define obscenity, but I know it when I see it." It's kind of the same with classical slipjoint body designs. When you see a serpentine, peanut, Barlow, swayback, sowbelly, congress, coke bottle.... And so forth you say "look at that <insert name>". But has anyone...

Of all the knives I have had apart, I have never seen one that had a bushing or liner reliefs. But you may be talking about more modern knives than I have. Also you didn't make it clear if this is a business venture. If you are trying to make a go of that, then power equipment is the only way you a...

Absinthe, I believe that some of the confusion regarding a mill comes from watching some custom knife makers online. I am sure that there are a few people out there who already owned a mill, then thought to get into knife making, and so they used the tools they had. But I would dare say that most k...

Here is my attempt to talk my self out of it https://www.instagram.com/p/CcrdNJ0Doj0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Okay, so i cleaned and tuned up the drill press. Then I used my crappy Pittsburgh 4" vice, and some random carriage bolts, finger tightened, I dressed off 2" of some kind of ch...

I have lathes and mills, but I don't use them on my knives as a rule. Having nice tools gives you the opportunity to use them for work previously done by hand, and for doing things that can't be done by hand. But using them on knives is not a necessity. Relief cuts in liners -if you feel them neces...