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Checkering ......................easy to say hard to learn and do it right .I will try sandblasting ............I have many shoe boxes full with knives to try ........
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has anyone had a chance to try it yet?View attachment 1519360
I know that he did but I don't recall seeing any finished knives with it yet.I think @stacy has done something with that ? On paper looks good .........too bad I can't try .
Very nice, how is it for grip as far as slip resistance?I made a karambit with that stuff for a handle. Worked pretty well. The rubber part of it was a little more difficult to finish, but not that hard.
Very nice, how is it for grip as far as slip resistance?
Real knifemakers wrap their handles in dirty old shoelaces and call it, rustic
My clients really appreciate the hemp wrap, soaked in marine epoxy. After a light sanding, it has the feel of bead-blasted micarta and actually gets tackier when wet. Even the wood handled knives I make get a recessed section of wrap at the palm.
Sand to the level you want, run it down with a little oil. Wipe it off with a rag or whatever.How do you guys finish that kind of G10?
It s look easy but it is not easy........... I try on two knife on which I don t like wood .................I do everything wrong , from wrapping cord /I refused to accept the fact that I needed glasses / and used to thick epoxy ..........Rick I really like that last knife. Not to derail the thread but do you have a thread explaining your process about how you do those handles?
And I really like the texture on the sheath in the left lower picture.
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This are segments with diamonds from big saw for granite , i have 200 liter barrel full of them. I know someone who change them on saws for local granite industry .............So if you know sam way how to get this diamonds................that would be no slip handle
Only hard wood i was used so far for handle are Ebony .......this is one o knife with that wood .I give it to one friend , avid hunter .He complain that handle is slippery when he deals with wild boar..........
So , what do you think about this ??? I think that I already see something like this , but I m not sure ........First one / SIC / was done just not to forget the idea.I used leftover/not enough/ epoxy so it didn't come great .Then i do this ...........coated the entire handle with epoxy and then very fine aluminium oxide ..............NOW that is grip , i like it .I've been using this knife for a few days when I need it. In the beginning there was a drop of grains ... but now it stopped and i think that finish would last long time ...What do you think ?
Silicon carbide is little on coarse side on this one .I will try other one with fine SIC
But this one with AO ................nothing can't get this knife out of hand.
That ugly one /black/ is SIC ..silicon carbideYou mention the handle on the knife directly above is made from "AO". What exactly is that?
I have 10 kg from that AO , I bought it for a sand pot furnace which I never finished .Very cheap, as far as I remember I paid about twenty dollars here for that 10 kg . Handle is not just grippy , it is extremely grippy and i like feeling while holding that handle .AO is very fine grain /i need to look in thread about sand pot furnace for exact grit size/ and i really can t explain feeling while I hold that handle .Ok, thank you. Looking for something grippy for an ESEE I have.