He Requested:
-Single blade auto, remove cord cutter and all affiliated parts
-remove bail
-rat tailed front bolster of Nickel silver
-vine filework on backspacer
-stabalized handles of burl
The first step was to grind off the heads of the pins with a dremel ball cutter and carefully drift them out with the correct size punches.
After the bail and handles were removed you could see the bare knife
then remove the cord cutter, spring and liner
The basic knife with removed parts above it. Power went out for about 14 hours after this pic was taken, it's back up now in some parts of town a terrible windstorm swept through and leved alot of trees, telephone poles and power lines with them. many houses are free of roofs now too.
There are/was few roads that were not blocked off from busted or uprooted trees or large limbs that had been ripped off.
Whenever I work on a knife that is unframiliar to me, or is build oddly I blueprint the entire knife with actual size drawings on 1/4" grid paper and take notes on construction, and the relationship between parts. This aids in troubleshooting and reassembling the knife after repair and/or customizing.
Will be heading out to the shop to progress on this project, next step is to file the backspacer and tack on the bolsters.
sorry, internet service is patchy here is an update.
bolster attached a drilled
left handle started holes for saftey and button inletted
underside of inlett, not my finest inletting job but amboyna burl isn't too forgiving with the end mill
everything together
view of handle tacked on
handles trimmed for thickness
fileworked backspacer
everything starting to shape up
ready for bolster groove and final sanding then polish
