Making a Clayton Barlow knife

Named after Graham Clayton, one of Sheffield's finest knife makers. This is a video of the processes involved in making this pocket knife.

[@John..18]

I could watch this all day,, if I had my time over again, this is what I'd do,, cheers,, 👍

[@EDC007]

Really enjoyed watching this.

[@tomjenkinson8958]

You made me this knife and l love it.

[@MiataBRG]

Just ordered my first custom knife, can't wait! (They were friendly and helpful to deal with too).

[@davidpyper82]

Nice have two of your knives

[@slick_slicers]

More of this please! Can you explain the purpose of dishing please? It always looks to me as though your making it harder to avoid gapping by not keeping the liners flat. I’m sure there’s method in the ‘madness’, so please can you explain it? I should say I have 2 of yours and 8 TEW by your successor there, Lee.

[@MichaelMayKnives]

It helps stop any gaps between the liner and the handle material. It also helps give the liner a bit more rigidity when the liners are quite thin. At least that was what I was taught.

[@slick_slicers]

Michael May Knives as I’ve two great examples of your work to go by, I’ve no doubt you’re right, but it feels like it’s adding an extra dimension of impression where a precise fit is the aim. Contrast with the efforts Sandy Jack goes to in ensuring his scales and tangs on his fixed blades are perfectly flat, sending them on a sheet of glass before they’re joined. I presume the concave face of the liner is towards the scale material and the convex to the blade, in order that the edges of the liner and scale are a tight fit. Am I right? Sorry, I’m asking to many questions, but I’m really interested in what you do. I’ll hopefully be buying from you again shortly. How’s your lead time with the pandemic? If it’s made orders reduce, I’ll order now, if you’re rushed off your feet I can hang back. Incidentally this might interest you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKbFnqJnq9B-ibs

[@MichaelMayKnives]

@@slick_slicers because of the tension caused by the spring mechanism the extra rigidity and the dish should stop any gaps appearing between the liner and handle material. That's the theory anyway. A thicker liner wouldn't need any dishing as it would be strong enough to deal with the tension. With fixed blade knives there's no tension so there is no need to dish, so a perfectly flat liner is what you need then. Hope that makes sense. I've been working reduced hours due to childcare so I've got a bit of a backlog to get through.. getting there slowly though.

[@slick_slicers]

Michael May Knives that makes more sense. Thank you for that. I’ll leave it just now then, but I’ll certainly be ordering again soon.