Slipjoint Folder

I finished my first slipjoint. The blade is 2 3/4" D2, the liners and bolsters are one piece of blued mild steel.

 

Very nice!

 

Thanks guys, they are deceptively difficult to build

 

Wicked! Great work man. What did you think was the most challenging aspect of the mechanism?

 

Honestly it's a simple mechanism that is unbelievable complicated. Getting the spring to 0 when the blade is in all three positions was tough. Drilling the back pin with just enough preload wasn't easy. If you change something it effects a bunch of stuff.

 

I will attempt one one of these days, thanks for sharing your work *thumb up*

 

Nice work, I would like to attemp one, are there any plans availabe, becuase i dont have a clue on were to start. Thanks, again great looking blade.

 

Hi Terry,

Neil Watt graciously donated some of his slip-joint plans for free use. They are on my blog. Neil has made them all before so I trust everything should line up. In printable PDF format.
http://dcknives.blogspot.com/p/folder-templates-for-slip-joint-knives.html

Dan

 

I made this one without a proper pattern, it caused me lots of grief. I lost this knife in my berry field, ticked me right off

 

@dancom that was very cool of him!

 

It certainly was. He said it was ok for people to email him with questions too.