Just having some fun with a complexity touch

My first folding knife.

Needed materials : 

- Metal slat for the blade, the mechanism and the structure.

- Kempas baseboard for the handle

- Nails of 35mm diameter

Needed tools : 

- A multitool like Dremel to cut the metal (or a grinder) and polish the blade. 

- A vice to hold the metal slat to ease the cut and which will be used for the riveting of the nails.

- A saw to cut the thickness of the wood piece held in the vice in order to have 2 wood pieces that have the same thickness.

- A scroll saw to cut the handle form.

- A drill with wood and metal bits of the nails diameter (here 35mm)

- Sandpaper with several grains(280, 400, 600 et 1000) to sand the blade and remove imperfections.

- A grinding wheel to  start the sharpening the blade

- A sharpener to finish the sharpening

- A ball peen hammer

In summary for the handle I started to trace at the middle of the wood thickness in order to split the piece in two. On each piece I drew the handle that I wanted and I cut around with the scroll saw. Finally I finished the handle by sanding and later I'll drill for the assembly. 

Then for the blade I drew the needed pieces on the slat and I cut them while the slat was placed in the vice. After I started the sharpening on the blade with the grinding wheel. Then I filed down and polished each piece by taking more care on the blade than on the spring mechanism.  

Finally I drilled holes in the metal and the wood and I did a dry mount* in order to test the spring rigidity and check the knife in general. Then I cut the overload of the nails by letting 1.75mm (half the diameter of my holes) and I started the riveting of those and here we are. One final pass to the grinding wheel to polish the nails and align the handle with the spring mechanism. It's done. Just some finishes like the varnishing and other...

* A dry mount is the final assembly in order to check the mechanism but having the possibility to disassemble everything.