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Offline JMR

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #40 on: August 16, 2011, 09:39:00 PM »
Beautiful knife Karl. I appreciate your detailed pics, it is huge help for guys like me that are learning one step at a time.
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Offline Scott Teaschner

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #41 on: August 17, 2011, 09:44:00 AM »
Very nice you are a true craftsman.
Scott
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Offline kbaknife

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #42 on: August 17, 2011, 03:04:00 PM »
A quick little walk-through of making the finial.
I've made them in many configurations, slotted for screw drivers, made to fit matching pins in an additional take-down wrench to name a few.
But if one was to not have the exact tool to fit the finial, one wold be in trouble - wouldn't one?
So I came up with one that would utilize an everyday tool - the allen wrench.
I turn a 416 rod and machine in a shoulder that catches the ledge in the finial insert, thus pulling everything together.

 

Then I drill and tap a hole in the exterior butt end to receive a stainless 10-32 socket head cap screw. I'm going to silver braze the screw into the butt, and this requires an absolutely CLEAN! surface. So I sandblast both the screw and the finial.

 

Then, silver braze them together with 56% silver rod.

 

Looks a little messy at first (until I turn it again)

 

Here you can see the silver braze. On the first couple I did, I wondered how strong the braze job would be. I was told that the braze joint was STRONGER than the host materials? Really. I guess so. I locked one of my test screws in a vise and tried to turn the screw out. I even had to use a small pipe on the allen wrench and I twisted off the wrench! I broke it off.
Good enough for me.
 
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Offline kbaknife

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #43 on: August 17, 2011, 03:05:00 PM »


 

 

 
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When the last deer disappears into the morning mist,
When the last elk vanishes from the hills,
When the last buffalo falls on the plains,
I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
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Offline kbaknife

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #44 on: August 17, 2011, 03:05:00 PM »
A few random shots of the finished knife.
(I like to flatten a small facet and then polish it on the leading edge of a guard like this. I do it with my oval guards as well. I especially like to do it on the hot blued guardsand butt caps. It really makes it dance when the light hits it at a knife show!)

 

 

 

 
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When the last deer disappears into the morning mist,
When the last elk vanishes from the hills,
When the last buffalo falls on the plains,
I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
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Offline kbaknife

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #45 on: August 17, 2011, 03:06:00 PM »
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When the last deer disappears into the morning mist,
When the last elk vanishes from the hills,
When the last buffalo falls on the plains,
I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
Chief Joseph

Offline Kevin Evans

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #46 on: August 17, 2011, 03:43:00 PM »
Karl that's an amazing Tutorial,good job.
I hope the aspiring new makers really appreciate the effort it takes to do this, and follow it closely there a lot to learn here.

By the way, IMHO your knives are getting better if that's possible.
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Offline kbaknife

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #47 on: August 17, 2011, 04:01:00 PM »
Kevin, I'm whooped.
That tutorial drained me.
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When the last deer disappears into the morning mist,
When the last elk vanishes from the hills,
When the last buffalo falls on the plains,
I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
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Offline TheBigRedArcher

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #48 on: August 17, 2011, 04:44:00 PM »
Karl:

You're an animal. AWESOME knife. Thank you for posting this.

TBRA
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Offline DANA HOLMAN

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #49 on: August 17, 2011, 07:31:00 PM »
Karl, it turned VERY nice, as all of us knew it would. You should put this thread in book form and sell it,
Dana
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Offline Kevin Evans

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #50 on: August 17, 2011, 07:59:00 PM »
No, No, Dana ,Lets go with DVD,  ;)
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Offline Ric O'Shay

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #51 on: August 17, 2011, 08:01:00 PM »
Karl -

All I can say is, That was wonderful.

Danny
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Offline DANA HOLMAN

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #52 on: August 17, 2011, 08:53:00 PM »
Yea, you right Kevin, Dont know what I was thinking
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Offline akaboomer

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #53 on: August 17, 2011, 09:25:00 PM »
Very nice. Thanks for taking the extra time to put this all up. The shop time and time on the keyboard is very appreciated. Well done sir.

Chris
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Offline JohnHV

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #54 on: August 17, 2011, 09:28:00 PM »
Karl,

Thanks so much for taking the time to share that with the gang here. I always learn a lot from your posts.
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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #55 on: August 17, 2011, 09:54:00 PM »
Now that's a knife.  Just beautiful.   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Offline joekeith

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #56 on: August 19, 2011, 11:13:00 AM »
WOW.......  :notworthy:    :notworthy:    :notworthy:
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Offline Margly

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #57 on: August 20, 2011, 04:46:00 AM »
Wow   :clapper:  

Thanks for taking us a long!

Margly
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Offline Doug Campbell

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #58 on: August 20, 2011, 09:48:00 AM »
Excellent tutorial Karl, I know it took a lot of time and effort and we all appreciate it. Knife aint too bad either  ;)
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Offline TNstickn

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Re: The "Gunflint Bowie"
« Reply #59 on: August 22, 2011, 06:26:00 PM »
Wow!!  :clapper:
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