Knifemaking Tuesday Week 60 - Pocket clips Media
Published: 11 years ago
60 weeks, WOW! This week I finish up machining the backside of all my handles and finish all the pocket clips. My Norseman knives are coming together nicely. The whole project has dragged on a lot longer than I wanted it to, but the parts are turning out so nice that it's been worth the wait.
I finally nailed down how to threadmill titanium, if you've been following my videos you know that I've been having lots of trouble with that. But now I got about 500 4-40 holes threaded with one endmill, that's excellent. These LakeshoreCarbide threadmills rock! And you can't beat the price, anywhere.
At 6:00 I talk about how nice it is to wear out endmills as opposed to breaking them prematurely, and I go through how I check them and change them when necessary. The name of the game with CNC is consistency and reliability.
At 16:15 I've got my vacuum table from Mitee Bite set up with a huge sheet of titanium sucked down to it, this worked GREAT. It lets me machine a whole bunch of operations on the backside of my handles without a single clamping change, and swapping to a new sheet takes seconds. Also, it has eliminated my waterjet costs because now I can work with large sheets of metal, I don't need them to be chopped down.
22:50 is where the pocket clip action starts. I already machined all the backside of the pocket clips in earlier operations, so this shows how I fixture and machine the top sides. After some tweaking and testing they went very smoothly and turned out GREAT. I enlarged the new logo a bit to fill the clip better, it looks soooo good. We finished up the 4 stainless damascus clips too, epic.
Thanks for watching!
I finally nailed down how to threadmill titanium, if you've been following my videos you know that I've been having lots of trouble with that. But now I got about 500 4-40 holes threaded with one endmill, that's excellent. These LakeshoreCarbide threadmills rock! And you can't beat the price, anywhere.
At 6:00 I talk about how nice it is to wear out endmills as opposed to breaking them prematurely, and I go through how I check them and change them when necessary. The name of the game with CNC is consistency and reliability.
At 16:15 I've got my vacuum table from Mitee Bite set up with a huge sheet of titanium sucked down to it, this worked GREAT. It lets me machine a whole bunch of operations on the backside of my handles without a single clamping change, and swapping to a new sheet takes seconds. Also, it has eliminated my waterjet costs because now I can work with large sheets of metal, I don't need them to be chopped down.
22:50 is where the pocket clip action starts. I already machined all the backside of the pocket clips in earlier operations, so this shows how I fixture and machine the top sides. After some tweaking and testing they went very smoothly and turned out GREAT. I enlarged the new logo a bit to fill the clip better, it looks soooo good. We finished up the 4 stainless damascus clips too, epic.
Thanks for watching!