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| Blade:
OK, haven't updated in a bit so here are some more pics. My blade has some scratches that I want to remove before I move on so I will clean these up by lapping. I like to use thick plates of glass with wet and dry sandpaper for this. I just spray glue the paper so that it stays flat on the glass. This blade had some deep scratches and a tiny bit of warping so I hit it a bit on the lapmaster to save a bit of elbow grease, if it was worse or I wanted to thin it down a bit I would surface grind it. The last photo shows the finished blade. |
| Blade:
The next steps shown are cutting the lock, the first picture shows the scale in the mill vice, you can see where I used a marker to lay out where I want the lock. I make the long cut first and then I stand the scale on end and back it up with a piece of steel so that it doesn’t flex and cut the short side on the lock. The nest two pictures show the finished lock and the scale being set up so that I can mill the relief on the side so that the lock is not too stiff. I use a 1/16” HSS jewelers saw to cut the lock, you just have to be sure to run it at the slowest speed on the mill or it will melt the teeth right off of it. High feed rates can burn them up also. |
| Powder Keg:
Looking good! Thanks for the update :wave: |
| raynerd:
Really excellent thread... !! Thanks for the all the pics and details. |
| Rob.Wilson:
Great stuff Blade :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: Rob |
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