Making a pocket knife | The blades and springs are first cut out of sheet steel, using blanking tools and a 50 ton press. These are then marked, drilled, nail nicked and straightened before hardening and tempering. |
Blade blanking tool - these come in all shapes and sizes, according to each pattern. There can be as many as 5 or 6 such tools per single bladed pocket knife. |  |
 | Blanking out the linings ready to have the holes pierced in them. |
The assembled parts are then prepared on the bench prior to assembly. |  |
 | After the blades have been hardened and tempered they are ground to an edge then cleaned up ready for assembly. |
The cleaned parts are ready for assembly, they are the blade, spring, 2 linings, and 2 bolsters which have already been soldered on the linings, 2 rose wood scales and the wire used to rivet the knife together. |  |
 | The assembled knife with wire sticking out both sides ready to be cropped off and "knocked up". |
The assembled knife is then "knocked up" at the bench using a hammer and an anvil called a "stidy". All this is done by hand with the upmost skill so that the knife still "walks and talks", the term used to describe the opening and closing. |  |
 | The assembled knives in a tray ready to be ground glazed and finished. |
Using a Linisher with different grade emery belts, the cutler then grinds and shapes the knives to the required finish. |  |
 | After a fiinal polish and sharpening the blade on a whet stone this is the finished pocket knife. |
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