Project from last winter. Opted to skip the loop.

You made this? Impressive!
I had to settle for this $25 repro as I have no knife making skills. 
 

Thanks. Mine actually works without helping it along. I bought one of those first just to see what it was like inside. Needless to say, it has very little in common internally with a Schrade. I was going to reassemble it and sell it or add bone scales to make it look cooler but I really just don't care to spend time putting lipstick on a pig. 

 

I think I used 1095 or 1084 for the blade and heat treated it in a modified BBQ grill(forced air). Used 4130 for the sides and internal mech. Brass pins and nickle silver for the bolsters and main pivot pin. There's a brass bushing in the pivot(used a lathe for that). Studied old patent drawings and scaled from photos for the proportions and locations of the features.

Probably $20 in parts but $1000 in labor!

 

Every day is a school day!

Dave

Nice Job

Dennis

Dave

 

  Very nice work ! Thank you for the posting

 

Tony

 

Not sure how I even came across this but glad I did, Dmar if you ever fancy making one of these again with a loop, I’m all ears. Would much rather a work of art than a mass produced reproduction. 

I never saw this before, very well done.

I appreciate it, guys. I have so many projects all the time, I'll never get to 0 before I get to 0!

Every project builds skills that add to the next one even if apparently unrelated.

I don't think anyone would mistake this knife as original but I like to show that people can do more than you think. No exceptional skills - just care and persistence.

Dave