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PLEASE NOTE -- You get both on one CD, the titles for the PC and the title in PDF format for the MAC or PC.
If you want to learn how to make custom knives, folding knives, spring back knives, spring back, lock backs, knife making books, making folding knives, knife repair, lock back knives, making knives, knife making, fix blades, knife, knives, this book has all the information that you will need. It is an excellent book for the beginner or advanced craft person.
BONUS -- You will also get on the CD, not download, the Buffing Knives Video. You will need the Media Player to play the movie.
If you order the Combo you get The Advanced Knife Making Book and Buffing Knives Video. This video will show you the safe way to polish knives.
Features
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This manual shows you how to make all different types of custom knives, folding, spring backs, fix, Damascus knives, knife blades, or learn how to repair all types of knives. This book covers grinders, rigid, lock backs, blades, fix blades, fix blades, sharpening grinders, and nickel-plating knives. This book has hundreds of drawings, and photos that you can follow step-by-step as you make your first knife.
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It has most of the exotic handle material, as well as Micarta, buffalo horn, stag, jigging bone, bone, Sambar, ivory, mother of pearl, amber and most types of wood that are used on knives. It has patterns for several types of spring backs, and lock backs.
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The Advanced Knife Makers manual is not just for the custom knife maker who has been making knives for years. It is written for the beginner who has never made a knife, but wants extra income from custom knives, or just as a hobby. The advanced means only that as the craftsman becomes more proficient, there is time saving information and many shortcuts listed.
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One important difference about this book and many other knife making books, is that of making folding knives. To make a folding knife by the conventional method of making each individual knife by scratch, it would take probably take you days to make each knife, thus making the finished knife more expensive and difficult to sell.
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The method used in this manual allows the knife maker to turn out (after he or she has gained experience) one completed folding knife in eight hours or less. This can be a lock back, spring back or any other type of folding knife. By using this method, the knife can be sold at a lower price, much quicker, and the profit in dollars is much greater.
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Several different types of full-scale patterns with instructions are included with this book. This will allow the reader to start at once making a folding knife. Fix blade knives are included with full instructions on grinding and finishing.
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This manual goes into detail on blades tool steel, oil hardening steel, heat treating tool steel, quenching, tempering, buffing, polishing, forging, hardening, and annealing when making knives. Also, band saws, and their use, adding bolsters, the use of templates, fitting scales, tang, springs, soldering, pins, rivets, and fitting of the parts.
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It will lead you through a systematic process on the building of a folding blade knife, whether it is a lock or spring-back. By following the many drawings and photos that are included. The process described will show you how to build a complete folder in eight hours or less using templates, after gaining experience. The process starts with cutting out the blade from tool steel, then heat treating, grinding the blade, installing handles, fitting the handles, and the final finishing.
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The Advance Knife Makers Manual covers most all of the equipment and tools needed for knife making, and the handle materials available. If you want to use exotic handle materials, this manual describes most of the popular types of material, and how to finish them. On the steel available, you will have a listing of all of the most popular type
BONUS - When you order the cd you will also receive the manual on making fix blade knives as done in the 1800's. If you are interested on how they made knives then, this manual will help. Complete instructions.
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