I've been struggling to make a wooden balisong, or a butterfly knife in carpentry class for a few weeks now. Googling haven't helped me at all (I suck at it, really). No, I'm not trying to create a weapon. Instead of a metal blade I'm going to have a butter knife.
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Well, your best option would be to have a butterfly knife already, and recreate the hinges, or use one off a butterfly knife already in existance. This kind of project would require a firm grip on hand carving and grain arrangement to keep it from splitting apart. What do you have to work with as far as a hinge and a folding lock for the butter knife? I assume you are really more trying to make a Leatherman type of tool yeah?
Not really. From what I've seen and read it's a butterfly knife. Only one blade and then the grip does it's thing and the blade goes into the handle. But the blade wouldn't detach from the handle, the handles would detach from the blade.
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Well, sounds like you need to work out the mechanism to fold and articulate the knife first before you could really do anything else. Make models of it out of cardboard and brads to work out the folding part, then recreate it out of metal, and the work on the body itself.
Make sure you don't use a full double sided blade for a butterfly knife, make sure one side only has a partial blade.
[QUOTE=oakman26;38319290]any feedback?[/QUOTE]
I get the drawing, and it'd work, I think OP may have given up on the project though. It'd be difficult to make without some aluminum/ stainless and some machining skills.
Actually, I'll make one tomorrow on my lunch break, just to test the mechanism out of wood, but I have a feeling the rivets I use are going to blow up something taht thin.
I actually tired this on a lunch using oak and bongozzi (red ironwood). The experiment was a horrible failure, due to the nature of the wood being so small that the ironwood just splintered apart and the second I put some low strength pop rivets on it (it did pivot nicely) the pieces did not do what I wanted. The handle worked just fine, but making the double pivot on wood is a bit cumbersome and likeyl to break at that size.
[QUOTE=oakman26;38845094]hmm, now i want to try it myself.[/QUOTE]
Go for it, but I'm fairly certain you should try a softer wood at least for the "knife" portion, which would be useless anyway, as it would just get smashed (thinking redwood)
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