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by **bembel** » 1 Oct 2006 21:57

Kaotik wrote:

This is by far the most excellent jackknife pick I've ever seen!
(I think I know the 12 years old thing you refer to, but yours is so much better)

Just perfect.

by **Kaotik** » 2 Oct 2006 20:21

bembel,

Thank you for the kind words. I am glad you liked it, I spent quite some time on it making sure it was as close to perfect as possible.

It is similar to the 12 y.o JackKnife here on the site, I just made a few changes including the width to hold 4 pick blades instead of 2 and a wider notch on the side to make accessing picks more adventageous. Making it from aluminum stock made it lighter than i'd expect from stainless. No doubt stainless is better in some/all cases, much cleaner than a black metal like Aluminum, brass, sterling and gold, and when welded, grinded, filed and polished properly can make it look flawless.

I only used what I had at the moment to complete the project and I think it turned out well for looks as well as function. Thanks again.

Cheers.

by **LockNewbie21** » 2 Oct 2006 22:03

Kaotic that does rock man.

P.s Thanks a while ago for telling me about the magnifier under the camera for better closeups

Cheers Buddy

by **Double_Chin** » 2 Oct 2006 22:16

I'm in awe of the craftsmanship/I wish I had one.

by **Fah_Cue** » 3 Oct 2006 10:03

Kaotik wrote:bembel,

Thank you for the kind words. I am glad you liked it, I spent quite some time on it making sure it was as close to perfect as possible.

It is similar to the 12 y.o JackKnife here on the site, I just made a few changes including the width to hold 4 pick blades instead of 2 and a wider notch on the side to make accessing picks more adventageous. Making it from aluminum stock made it lighter than i'd expect from stainless. No doubt stainless is better in some/all cases, much cleaner than a black metal like Aluminum, brass, sterling and gold, and when welded, grinded, filed and polished properly can make it look flawless.

I only used what I had at the moment to complete the project and I think it turned out well for looks as well as function. Thanks again.

Cheers.

How to guide! PLEASE

I love it! its ausome, so clean and perfect.
Where did you pick up the material? local hardware store?

by **Kaotik** » 5 Oct 2006 0:43

LockNewbie21 wrote:Kaotic that does rock man.

P.s Thanks a while ago for telling me about the magnifier under the camera for better closeups

Cheers Buddy

No problem buddy, remember you owe me one.

j/k love to help out.

Fah_Cue wrote:How to guide! PLEASE

I love it! its ausome, so clean and perfect.
Where did you pick up the material? local hardware store?

Hmmm, I will have to make another one to make a step by step guide on it, and it would be interesting to share with you all. I think I will give it a go.

The materials used for the body of the tool was Aluminum baught at Ace Hardware (some Aces have a small rack with various types and sizes of sheets, tubes cylindrical, oval and square, strips and rods made in Aluminum, Brass, Copper and Stainless) store for about $5 it was a .064x4"x10" piece. The small screws can be found in just about any old device you have no use for, and the picks were made from Paring Knife blades.

The holes were drilled and threaded for better results in this project. However, if taps and dies are not available to create threads there are other means of doing so. One is to find a drill bit just slightly smaller than the threading on the screw, drill the hole, then start to drive the srew in a few turns then back it back out, repeat but drive in further, repeat till screw is completely in. It may be time consuming but it works since the material is soft enough.

by **iNtago** » 5 Oct 2006 1:47

i'll be waiting cause my first try failed :cry:

all my screws weer out of place , my aluminum was to thin and im plain not good at filing aluminum

so a guide will be great

by **Fah_Cue** » 5 Oct 2006 7:56

Kaotik wrote:Hmmm, I will have to make another one to make a step by step guide on it, and it would be interesting to share with you all. I think I will give it a go.

o no! what a shame, you will have 2 fine pieces of craftmanship!

iam sure it will be stickyable material

by **Swordsalot** » 9 Nov 2006 11:21

wow, you guys have inspired me to make my own set of picks. I'll go out tomorrow and buy a few hacksaw blades and a hand file (grinding wheels look too expensive for me, and hopefully I should have some time coming up to hand file).

Is there a single page with lots of templates to choose from? I can search and see a whole bunch of individual templates, but can't see a single page with a whole lot of them (so I can compare them, choose me favourites etc). Thanks for any help

by **scampdog** » 9 Nov 2006 15:34

this might help a bit
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e157/ ... plates.jpg
try the easy ones to start off.

by **Romstar** » 9 Nov 2006 17:45

scampdog wrote:this might help a bit
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e157/ ... plates.jpg
try the easy ones to start off.

Wow, EXACT copies of the HPC pick line-up, including the PIP-2000 series with extractors. I'll bet HPC liked that.

Romstar

by **iNtago** » 9 Nov 2006 18:06

Thought i'll post a pic of my pick case with homeades and store made but the magority is homeade

by **unbreakable** » 9 Nov 2006 19:51

Nice looking set iNtago!!

The deep curves look good, do you like them?

Nice handles too, and the duct tape is a nice touch.

by **iNtago** » 9 Nov 2006 20:02

the only problem with them is that thay are always freezing :lol:

other than that i love them thats why thare in front

and ofcourse ducktape will make anything better

by **iNtago** » 9 Nov 2006 20:06

ohh ya deep hooks are good to
:lol:

i read to fast thout you were talking about the handals :oops:

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