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phill

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    Saint Albans, WV
  • Interests
    I love everything about metal from knives to guns to cars and motorcycles. If it's metal I can work on it and sometimes even make it.

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  1. spectacular work! you are defenately a pro!
  2. oh wow I like the table saw idea! My dad has one with veriable speeds and the same cutting disks as my angle grinder just bigger. Wish I'da thought of that! THANX!!! That'll work perfect! I'll have to build a clamp with a big handle to hold the piece so I keep all my parts connected to me, though!lol Thanx again!
  3. that's what I worry about is getting nice bits and destroying them with my lesser tools! I go through lots of coolant already so I've recently put a bucket with a spout and filter under my drill press to recycle it. I rarely do anything to hardened metals, normally just the blade if I deside to do something decorative after the knife's finished. I usually use weldable steel rod or rolled steel rod from lowe's for the handles and harden them a bit after I do all the cutting and drilling. I normally drill holes the length of the bar to the depth I want and use a dremel or angle grinder to turn the holes into a groove and go back, with the same size drill bit as the thickness of the blade, and try to even it out. There's gotta be a quicker, easier, and more accurate way! lol thanx
  4. the pins are the easy part! it's the same as rivetting anything else, 1/16" to 1/8" brass or soft steel rod or cheap broken drill bits is what I use. Getting everything to line up is the fun part! You should try it, it's suprisingly easier than you'd think, and it normally turns out better than store bought one!
  5. thanx that's very helpful! my drill press mill (a term that I know just sounds stupid) is all I can aford right now so I've just gotta deal with it and do a lota cussing until I can upgrade. lol Carbide cutters it is cause I use hard and/or hardened metals for everything. Thanx again!
  6. well I've got a drill press with a milling vice. I normally drill holes to the depth I want and use the drill bit like a side cutting bit but the groove always ends up crooked or curvy and my bit almost always breaks. in a week or so I'm going to get some keyway cutters, hopefully they don't break! I'm trying to cut a groove 1/8in wide, about 3/4 the way through a 1/2 inch bar, will keyway bits tolerat that if I take it slow?
  7. HAHAHA best forge I've seen yet! very 'fun'ctional :lol:
  8. anybody know a place either online or in WV to get good quality milling bits that won't break the bank? Harbor freight bits are junk and my local Lowe's and Homedepot don't have any at all. I've upgraded my drill press with a pressicion vise and I have a 7"x10" mini lathe and I've had 72 hours worth of machine shop classes and I'm using that to start a small part time knife business for fun, mostly so my hobby can pay for itself. Any suggestions are GREATLY apriciated!
  9. well I just tried both ways. my lathe doesn't have enough power to be a mill, it keeps blowing fuses. sigh 2)it doesn't have any way to keep the chuck still while using a saw blade in the tool post. double sigh. so I got my sawsall out and put a new metal bit in it and tried that....well that's just scary but straighter than an angle grinder! lol Any other suggestions?
  10. wow I never looked at it like that thanx! my lathe is just a little 7"x10" mini lathe from harbor frieght but it does most of what I want. Awesome idea!
  11. ok so I've made 2 balisongs (butterfly knives) so far, which are much better than store bought I've been told, but I never can cut the grove in the handles as even and straight as I like. I only have basic tools like a pessicion mini lathe, pessicion drill press, angle grinder, and a dremel to work with. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get a straight, even, and centered groove in a 1/2" steel bar? thanx
  12. ok so I've made 2 balisongs (butterfly knives) so far, which are much better than store bought I've been told, but I never can cut the grove in the handles as even and straight as I like. I only have basic tools like a pessicion mini lathe, pessicion drill press, angle grinder, and a dremel to work with. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get a straight, even, and centered groove in a 1/2" steel bar? thanx
  13. I made the knife in my profile pic from a piece of lawnmower blade, a steel bar for the hanle and broken drill bits for pits. It's my 2nd balisong (butterfly knife). The first was made from a RR spike, saw blade, and old drill bits for pins, I lost it last winter while sledding with the kids.

  14. I live in WV and I make balisongs.

  15. yes, all of the above! I just started tho. My 1st one was made from a RR spike I cut in half long ways, a saw blade, and broken drill bits for rivets. The 2nd is made from a steel dumbell bar that I turned on my presicion lathe from 1" to 1/2", lawnmower blade, and broken drill bits for pins. Now I buy 1/2"-3/4" steel rods and put a 1 degree taper them, decorate them and I use lawnmower blades or tool steel for the blades and left over rod for pins. I'm 26 now ad I've been making knives of all kinds sence I was 9 or 10, yet I've never had a forge so I just grind away and use propane to temper them.
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