Ron Lake

Three top custom makers show you haw, step by step, with easy-to-follow instructions.

Laying out patterns
Grinding your blades
Fitting lock & sping
Handles
Polishing
Final assembly

Plus safety tips, and where to buy the supplies. Over 300 photos show you in detail how the experts make folding kives. And how easy it is for you to make your own knife, too!

Contents

Introduction
About the authors
Templates for Wayne Clay folder
Section I: The Wayne Clay Method
The making of Clay's no. 3 lock-back folder-the design, making the backspring, proper fit, milling the liners, handle construction, gringding the blade bevels, all the way to the final finish
Wayne's knifemaking equipment
Section II The Frank Centofante method
How to make a folder, form scribing the blade pattern on the steel, squaring bolsters, clamping handle material to the liners, surface grinding, to the final oiling
The lowdown on delicate handle materials
Section III: The Ron Lake method
Learn how to complete the interframe folder-with special emphasis on design, plus making the lock lever, milling, special tooling, hand-honing, silfver-soldering, final assembly and polishing
Ron's thoughts on safety in the workshop
Knive thoughts, trouble shooting and hints, from Ron Lake
Section IV: Basic pocketknife terminology
Ideas and illustratins form The Complete Book of Pocktknife Repair
Standards for wire gauges and allowances for fits
Tips and diagrams on proper and improper grinding
General information
Blade patterns
Section V: Other top folder makers
A selection of folders by some of the world's finest knifemakers
Addresses of the authors and suppliers of materials for making folders
Glossary
Safety rules… (mehr)