If it is ok, I'd like to post works in progress and finished slipjoints in a single thread?
Ready for edge, Teardrop Jack knife with Wharncliffe blade. This was inspired by a Japanese maker Ohta
More pictures of the build at
https://www.instagram.com/ash.handmade.knives/Video of the walk/talk
3 3/8" closed
Scales are stabilized spalted hackberry wood
CPM-154 blade and spring, hand rubbed satin finish on blade
hollow ground
SS liners, end caps, pinned shield
escutcheon nails and spun head
Light pull (when long pull is closer to the pivot, I don't like heavy nail breaker pull)
Bronze washers
fluted, threaded, some black dye in the threads
This was a previous one that I had to trash, but was experimenting with scratch engraving on micarta and filling with black dye: