New gallery! Pictures from Customers

I always wanted to have a gallery with pictures from my customers... In last month I got many fantastic pictures from you and finally I am able to do that! Below are only some example photos.
To watch the whole gallery you can click here:
Pictures from Customers
or find a link on the right panel of the blog.
Thank you very much for the pictures and if you have some more I would be very happy to add them. I love to see when my works are used. I especially like the pictures with my works being a part of your EDC stuff :)

Making a Pioneer knife Part 3 - scales

I put away this project for almost a year but third part is of making Pioneer knives is finally here. Knives are far more advanced with production now, so I have to catch up with showing the progress. In this episode I will show you how the scales was from green canvas micarta sheet. 3mm 4-flute carbide end mill have been used for this. As you see no cooling liquid is required to mill micarta or G10. It was milled almost one year ago so it was not perfect. Now we would do it better ;)

There are also some pictures showing how tubes were prepered.

I cut the video into pieces and speed is x3 because it would be even more boring without this...

"Amigo" Neck knife

Finally a new knife! This is the first knife made with help of my CNC milling machine.

Blade shape and even rough grind have been milled. Blade is also stonewashed as this finish always looks cool with orange scales ;) Hope you like it as it is 'the prototype for a prototype' of my new regular model.
 

Steel: N690
Blade thickness: 3 mm
Blade length: 5,2 cm
Overall length: 12,5 cm 
Handle material: beadblasted orange G10, titanium tubes
Kydex sheath with shock cord mounting system

SOLD

Making a Pioneer knife Part 2 - milling grinds and drilling

 Hello! It's been a while... I  finally found some time to show you second episode of making the Pioneer knife. Me and my brother have been thinking about making knife grinds with use of milling machine for a long long time. The most important question was: is it possible to make it with a compact milling machine and homemade CNC control. The answer is: Yes! One of the problem was to choose a proper milling cutter. We decided to use a bullnose cutter with tungsten steel round inserts (8mm diameter). We chose it because of its durability, long tool life and the smooth finish that can be made with cutter of such a shape. We have made grinds for four blanks with one set od inserts and it seems that it is possible to grind many, many more knives without changing the inserts. We had to make a special holder for the Pioneer blanks as you can see on the pictures. It helps us to fix the blanks to the table and to position the CNC machine. You can see that a lot of coolant is needed for the milling process. It took us one whole day to make grinds and holes on four blanks of Pioneer knife. Grinds are rought but all of them will be finished with belt grinder in the next episodes. Stay tuned and don't forget to watch the video :)

Making a Pioneer knife Part 1 - designing and milling blanks

This is a first episode of making my first ever, series of four knives made with use of CNC milling machine. What is more important, knives are made with help of my brother Kamil, who will program the milling monster and work on: 'how to do things'. We have never done such a thing and hope that it will end with a success :) If it will be cool enough, I will make it my first knife model - ready to made on request. That is way, I called it "Pionieer".

The knives are half-finished now. I am showing first step of the story. Step that we made over a month ago.

Of course it started from a designing. I wanted it to be a tough, compact, multi purpose, field knife. Similar to the one I made about 5 years ago LINK. The blade has a lenght of 9,5cm and it is 21cm overal. I decided to use 4mm D2 steel.

From a couple of my sketches I made a CAD drawing. While my brother was programming the machine, I prepared the steel for milling. After a couple of hours we were ready to cut.W made four blanks, one after another. 3mm diameter carbide cutter was used. I made a short video of the milling process.

In the next episode, I will show how we managed to make rough grinds without a grinder... with use of bull nose cutter instead.