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Thread: Dorko 444 blank build

  1. 09-01-2015, 12:55 AM #1
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    Default Dorko 444 blank build

    Evening gents. Searched for the 444 and found interesting threads on hardness and history of them and now I own one.
    Here it is beside an older Dorko I picked up antiquing last week for comparison.
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    Blank is quite thick as you can see, with an O stamped up at the spine on the backside, mid blade..
    Anyone with experience on this unique item, or suggestions as to plan of attack welcomed.
    A faux frameback Dorko will be pretty neat, if I can do it right.
    Cheers, and thanks.
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    Mike IIRC there has being a thread or 2 on here (or possible the other site b.b?) about the Dorko Blank blades someone had gotten a few and finished them off
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    Looks like a neat project! of course we expect progress pics
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    Oh yes, many pics once I get a plan together.
    I've got an ebay search set for Dorko hoping to find some reasonable scales from a fallen blade. Think those are a must for this to really pull it together. The ones I have seen, presumably finished by Dorko have jimps on both sides of the tang. May try to reproduce this effect somehow.
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    There were many available at one point. I remember seeing auction after auction of multiples. I was always very curious. Still am in fact. I have so many half finished or just started or waiting to start projects that I am just going to watch this one and not even think about following you down that rabbit hole.
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    lol, rabbit hole indeed Shaun..
    And the pile ebbs and flows, like the tide bro..

    Makes me want to build a twin wheel counter-rotating grinder now somehow, just cause I don't have enough to play with....
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeB52 View Post
    Oh yes, many pics once I get a plan together.
    I've got an ebay search set for Dorko hoping to find some reasonable scales from a fallen blade. Think those are a must for this to really pull it together. The ones I have seen, presumably finished by Dorko have jimps on both sides of the tang. May try to reproduce this effect somehow.
    Cheers.
    Mike, I use thin diamond cut off wheels for tight jimping then triangle Jewelers files to widen them out.

    I'm working on a razor grinder too.... May go up to the Portland razor company and see what there is to learn.
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