Making an every day carry knife with surgical screw as pins.
These screws came from an arm operation a friend of mine went through, he was able to keep them after they have been removed and from now on he will have them in this edc knife as reminder.
The blade is made out of a 3mm thick and 50mm wide bar of k720 (aka 02) high carbon steel.
The handle is composed of olive and ebony wood with a thin white spacer (vulcanized fiber, similar to micarta and G10) in between.
Three pins are solid 4mm round titanium from the surgical screws and one is a mosaic of aluminum and titanium nails with black epoxy resin.
These screws and nails have a real deep meaning for my friend so I am really honored to have made something for him to carry with them. Plase don't ask me to do the same with any of your surgical stuff because I won't do others of this kind! Thank you!
And yes, on the thumbail are the actual x-ray of my friend arm with the exact titanium hardware I used in this video.

The sharpening system you see at the end was sent to me by MadEdge to try. Well built and works great! Check it here:
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Index of operation and materials:
0:06 Marking shape with 3D printed pattern and spray paint
0:24 Cutting with metal cutting bandsaw
0:56 Grinding to shape with 2x72 belt grinder
1:52 Center punching
2:06 Drilling pin holes
2:26 Marking center line
2:42 Grinding bevels with 2x72 belt grinder
3:34 Hardening, heating up to 820°C, holding for 15 min and quenching in vegetable oil
4:14 Hand sanding up to 400 grit
5:20 Etching with ferrich chlorice
5:30 Cutting pins from titanium screw with dremel
6:22 Making a mosaic pin with titanium nails
7:56 Cutting olive wood to size
8:05 Grinding to 15°
8:20 Glueing up scales with epoxy resin
9:43 Match drilling pin holes on scales
10:17 Cutting to size with band saw
10:42 Grinding and finishing bolster
11:05 Finishing to 1000 grit to prevent scratching the blade finish once scales are glued
11:37 Always degrease parts before glue
11:52 Glueing up everything
12:40 Belt grinder to remove eccess material
13:18 Hand sanding up to 1200 grit
14:30 White mineral oil
10:45 Adding microbevel with MadEdge jig and stones (up to 5000)

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