April and May of 2025 was spent designing new features on the compression lock.   My goal was to design and create a dovetailed locking bar that would be installed with no screws.  The handle chassis had corresponding dove tails to hold the locking bar in place.  The handle was machined using a dovetailed cutter, used to undermine the titanium chassis of the knife.  Special thanks to the Harvey tool company, for their catalogue, which I used as a reference for tips and examples before successfully programming my first undercutting.  The end result was a locking bar held rigidly into place without any screws.  As for June I plan to continue working on the lockbar.  I have decided to install a pin similar to a stop pin into the knife, in an attempt to stabilize the locking bar, on the compression lock.  On my Fallen Star knife design I used an insert to stabilize the locking bar, but on the compression lock I will use a 303 Stainless steel dowel pin.  I also have to face the locking geometeries of the back of the blade, where the locking bar makes conact, and finally I need to create the push button that will unlock the knife.  So that is what I will be working on for the month of June.