Today marks a pretty big step for me, I started milling on my integral framelocks. These knives are pretty complex as framelocks come, being made of a single piece of titanium for the frame and integrating all the big features folks have come to know and expect out of a premium framelock. Today was mostly dedicated to milling fixtures for the milling of the titanium handle billets. Each handle is milled out of a single 4 pound billet of Titanium and needs three major fixture assemblies for the machining: a flat surfacing and bossing fixture, an angled handle taper fixture and a angled lanyard hole drilling fixture. Bear in mind this is simple prototyping, these knives are no where near ready for production yet and I'm still in the process of learning the skills I need to successfully pull off this design and make it the best framelock I can. They'll only be released when they're ready and perfected, not a moment before.
The reasons for the seperate fixtures will become aparant as the build progresses, regardless they are a critical part of the milling of the handle. Billets of titanium should appear via UPS post tomorrow and the handle builds will begin at large. The first knives should be available for purchase near the end of summer or early fall.
-Will
