Wood Or Material ?
I have picked up a lot of knives since my grandson Cameron won a knife on a Christmas giveaway on gunbroker.
The person that drew Camerons name sent me a beautiful Boker Tree knife plus Camerons.. I mean it is as pretty a knife you will ever see. Thank you for the knife. I will not post your name here.
Before that i had maybe 2 or 3 knives. LOL
Now i have around 100 give or take a few. The person who sent me the knife started something. LOL My Dad left me about 30 but i gave all his grand babies and great grandbabies all some and i kept a few for myself.
Plus i got right many from the pawn shop for cheap.
My question is i am drawing knife blanks on a thin piece of wood that is glued together. I would like to have them where it is 1 piece of material without layers so it can not come apart.
What is your idea for a material. It will have to be something i can cut and sand pretty easy.
The person that drew Camerons name sent me a beautiful Boker Tree knife plus Camerons.. I mean it is as pretty a knife you will ever see. Thank you for the knife. I will not post your name here.
Before that i had maybe 2 or 3 knives. LOL
Now i have around 100 give or take a few. The person who sent me the knife started something. LOL My Dad left me about 30 but i gave all his grand babies and great grandbabies all some and i kept a few for myself.
Plus i got right many from the pawn shop for cheap.
My question is i am drawing knife blanks on a thin piece of wood that is glued together. I would like to have them where it is 1 piece of material without layers so it can not come apart.
What is your idea for a material. It will have to be something i can cut and sand pretty easy.
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If you have, or have access to, a band saw you can re-saw a block of wood to make scales to use.
This is what I did for a friend years back. I cut a block of wild cherry and then sanded the mating faces dead flat. Then cut a piece of ABS close in thickness to the knife tang and fastened it and wood scales together with double face carpet tape. Most of the shaping was done with them taped together this way. To apply wood to steel I used Brownells Steelbed dyed almost black and clamped together with a woodworkers clamp. The steelbed was thick enough it squeezed out around the edges, but didn't run. Once it set-up, but hadn't hardened, I carved off the excess around the wood with a utility knife and then did final shaping and sanding after the steelbed had cured for several days.
The stainless steel particles in the steelbed gave a nice silver metal flake look to the charcoal gray and was a sharp contrast to the wild cherry.
I wouldn't doubt you could use AcraGlass Gel dyed as a close match to whatever you use for your scales.0
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