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Making Liner Lock Folding Knife part 3

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Handmade Damascus Steel Folding Pocket Knife
Step 7: Fitting the stop pin


Now you must have the handles, roughly (or finished, it does not really matter), with at least two holes, the hole of the stop pin and the pivot hole. The blade must be made, except for additional metal behind the two contact points of the stop pin, and behind where the lock could touch the knife. Apart from that, the sheet should look good.

It's time to fit. For these next steps, please take your time. Being too hasty would ruin the knife at this point. Essentially, what is going to happen is trial and error. In general, I have a certain pattern depending on the amount of steel I need to remove. File 5 times, check. File 5 more times, check.

Using a hacksaw, cut the pivot and the stop pins. You want the length to be equal to the thickness of your knife in general, plus at least 1/4. "I usually leave about 1/2", just to make it easier to remove the pins. The adjustment will be very tight at this point. You can push it with an additional piece of metal or use tweezers. It really does not matter how the pins come in. They will be placed and removed quite a lot during these next steps.

Take the titanium liner and push the two pins. Push the blade on the top of the pivot pin. Now, try to open and close the blade. It is probably not perfect and, in fact, the arc can be avoided due to the extra material in the blade. There will be 3 places to present. The upper area lifts the blade when the knife is opened. The area of the lower stop pin will cause the blade to be deeper in the handle when closed. The last area is between these two stop pins. If the blade can not be opened and closed, the material must be removed from the medium to allow the blade to oscillate. Remember to keep the locking area flat.



The orange line represents the parts of the sheet that will come into contact with the stop pin when the sheet is closing. There can not be any metal outside this line, otherwise the blade will stop in the middle by the stop pin.

The light green line is your lock. When removing metal, this line must be kept straight for your lock.



Due to the relatively small radius of the pivot to stop the pin compared to the pivot to the tip of the blade, a small change can make a big difference. Remember that the metal can be removed, but not put back. File slowly!
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