Hey, thanks for making these. Always helpful to see some of this stuff happening step by step, helps jackasses like me who love knives learn more about how they come to exist.

Mike, What I usualy do is drill the backspace roles fisrt, recess them and bolt the two pieces together. This way no wiggle at all. Nice work Mike.

@ekowgyasi6775

4 жыл бұрын

Roberto Lopes can I get to see some of ur works please am about to start making knifes thank you

Nice video Boss...... Thanks for the titanium advice

This is such an awesome series! I've been making fixed blades for about four years and have been terrified to try a folder, but your videos are a huge inspiration to give it a go.

I put a piece of painter's tape on each scale and superglue them together, this way it's solid enough to profile them and drill the holes right, then you can take them apart easily.

I just binge watched these 4 videos! Amazing to see a maker share this for others to learn from! I would like to embark on this challenge sometime this year! Thank you! Can't wait for the next video!

This is a great series Mike. I love watching the progress. As someone that has always owned folding knives, and always just settled for "affordable" manufactured knives, this is proving to give me a good bit of inspiration for some up coming projects I want to take on.

Stick it in the spindle on Mill Mike, tap it lightly shouldn't take much use a brass or any soft hammer you have unless you mind scarring up the shank on drill rod or whatever. It does not take long

I've strayed away from designing Folders for a while simply because I had no clue or experience with how to make them. But this series (so far) has greatly improved my knowledge. Making sure to put on notifications for your channel so I can learn some more. Thanks for the video!

@williamporter6185

7 жыл бұрын

Also for the warnings with use of Titanium and Zirconium. :D

Sweet brother... Can't wait to see the next one! My straights are keeping me busy but once I'm done perfecting that I'm going to move on into knives... So these will be super helpful sooner or later, besides watching someone make a knife is entertaining

Looking good Mike. You're on you way to becoming one of the great knifemakers!

I second the superglue. a couple of drops between the two pieces of Ti makes them stick together nicely and a putty knife between splits them apart easily.

@EkimKnives

7 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea! I've used it to glue titanium down on the surface grinder and its incredible how strong of a bond it really is.

Great stuff. Don't know how I haven't seen your channel till now. Subscribed!

You definitely get good use of your 1-2-3 blocks! Great video, btw. :)

Awww yeah more ekim videos. as you know ask 10 knife makers how to do something, you get 10 answers. but I like to drill my pivot, stop pin and back spacer holes. On liner locks I throw in a reamed hole in just for shaping the handle. that 123 block trick is very handy. looking forward to the waterjet

@EkimKnives

7 жыл бұрын

The order you do it is probably better now that I think of it. If you install the back spacer now, it will hold it all together and you can get much further into finish grinding. I'll have to give that a shot. Thank You!

@Capthrax1

7 жыл бұрын

like I said we all do it differently. my run out on my 30 year old 8 inch drill press is horrid. I love and hate drilling titanium. It seems to drill like aluminium with nice curls. But destroys bits. My cobalt reamer made about 5 knives before the pivot became a interference fit.

Thank you for doing this series man. I've watched it a few times through now and I always take notes down and shit. Ive had to learn a lot of these lessons on my own but its super nice not having to learn them all cause I can't afford buying giant "small" billets of Ti like that 😂 I have to buy per knife. Thats why I havent made anything buy a prototype with steel handles yet

Hey Mike I no you watch my vids when I build my folders. I do them to help. Super glue is a knife makers best friend 😉😉

@russellwalker3830

7 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing the whole time from watching clicksprings videos and other machine shop channels.

@kraziefordriver

6 жыл бұрын

Me too. Just glue the scales together before you even drill them and they should be identical.

Nice one Mike keep up the good work

@EkimKnives

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I really appreciate the support!

Awesome, Always learn good info from the vids.

@EkimKnives

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the support. I'm happy to hear you find the videos helpful!

@jf.knivesfrederick3657

7 жыл бұрын

Very helpful, I am kinda going about it a unorthodox way by doing water jet first but I dont have a mill so I dont have many other options, been looking at mills and mini cnc machines again but just not in the budget now.

@EkimKnives

7 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with that and I know some waterjet guys will do single piece test runs before you have to commit to a whole batch.

@jf.knivesfrederick3657

7 жыл бұрын

yeah I found a great water jet guy he does all his cuts by time to cut and not inch cut, he will do pieces one at a time any time as long as you need them. Kaleb Black, with robo jet cutting if you ever need one off stuff, super nice guy.

Some machinists might not recommend this but On those drill chucks I use to put a true piece of material like a straight running drill or drill rod and put a indicator on it Mike. You should get it 1 or less thousands runout. Back to the video. Good luck

@EkimKnives

7 жыл бұрын

I've been meaning to indicate it to check it out. I know the collets run pretty true but I don't seem to have any luck with drill chucks. The black one has to be a good 10 thousands of run out.

was just thinking what's ekim up to... then i saw this and realized I somehow became unsubscribed that's why I hadn't seen anything recently. good job bro your always an inspiration!

@bumstudios8817

7 жыл бұрын

P.S. if you need a place to donate all those practice pieces you just start over on you can send them to me ;) haha

@EkimKnives

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for coming back! That's happened to me too on a few channels I follow. Some kind of glitch in youtube I guess.

.. you only need one side to be right.. if you clamp/glue them together they are both the same.. even when they don't line up the sweet little pictures..

2:04 that was so well timed

@eternalknives9829

7 жыл бұрын

Was that your phone or did you add that in post? hahah

Great job it's coming out great. The handle that you cut that didn't match the other one, are you still going to use that for a different knife or is it ruined?

Why didn't you just drill out each hole on the handle, a few sizes smaller than you intended to thread for, and put pins in it to hold it straight?

Stupid question: Why not drill out a backspacer screw hole and pin it in back, too?

@christopherrobin8134

6 жыл бұрын

9 months late, but I also have the same question.

Hey mike quick question, do you have to heat treat titanium or is it all ready to go when you receive it from AKS??

Hi , I'm s new subscriber to your channel and I have a question: What's your opinion of XHP STEEL for a 5" blade combat knife ? Thanks in advance

You said the reason for wiggle was because the holes were so close together at the same end. Couldnt you leave extra room on the other end of the cutout and drill a hole there to place another pin to hold it together, then cut that off when everything is ready? It could be as tight as possible as well because its just an extra inch of material

@EkimKnives

7 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea. It wouldn't take a whole lot to execute either. I know a lot of the guys getting blanks waterjet cut that have these holes cut as well to locate the parts together just like you said. Very good point!

How much accumulative time would you say you spend sanding a satin finished blade?

what would the price range be for the folders when you start to selling them

hey Mike this is nice and all but I'm still waiting for the video where you show how you put your logo on your knives.

I didnt know the part about titanium being flammable

do you have a list of steps you use?

I need your printable templates sir please!

hello my name is Albin Andersson and I'm a knife maker and a buyer wanted h a folding knife so I would appreciate if you could send a picture of a description of your knife if you want

Abi TÜRK müsün ?🇹🇷

I see a lot of guys using superglue to temporarily attach them to each other for the profile and the holes

Buy once, cry once.

I'm dying to see a blog somewhere with text, pics, and vids showing what to do and what not to do and tips and tricks and shit. As well as stupid mistakes made and enormous stupid fuck ups so I dont have to feel lile such a dunce sometimes