Kitchen knife frame handle questions

To be honest, I do not trust CA glues all that much. All I ever use them for is essentially clamping stuff together temporarily that I later want to take apart with a whack of the hammer. I am going to give it a try, though. Do you use 2p-10 for all the joints, or just the bolster/frame handle joint? Do you use thin, medium, thick or gel? If you want to make a permanent joint with CA, do you apply it to both sides of the joint? I normally only use a drop or two because I intend for the joints to come apart.

Do you use epoxy for gluing in the tang to fill the cavity in the back of the bolster or CA glue for that as well?

I am halfway convinced that the handle would have held up fine with the tang as a tenon to hold things together and epoxy to fill the cavity at the back of the bolster. At the same time, it was a bit too easy to break the joint and I thought it could have come apart while I was shaping the handle pretty easily.

 

Thank you for all your help. I will give it a try.

 

I've got everything together for another try, this time with 2p10. As I am getting ready to put the frame handle together, I am wondering how to prevent the glue squeeze-out from closing up the tang slot. I was going to glue one scale to the spacer with the tang slot first. At this point, I can still scrape out any squeeze-out with a chisel, but what do I do for the second scale? With epoxy, I use the tang to clean out the slot, but with the fast cure time of 2p10, I don't think that's going to work, or is it?

 

Thank you for the picture and the suggestion. I am about to have a drink, the glue-up can wait until tomorrow.

 

I ended up using medium thickness 2p10 to glue a new micarta ferrule to the handle I showed in post #19. That worked really well and there are no visible gaps. Grinding the ferrule flat with the existing handle turned out to be more challenging than I thought and I did not get the facets as even as I would have liked. I kept making "improvements" to one of the facets only to discover that its neighbors now looked off. Eventually, I got the top of the handle looking decent and stopped while I still had some handle left... The blade is not glued in yet, I plan on doing that later today. It is a 150mm petty knife. I have another blank already heat treated ready for grinding and will try the all 2p10 construction on that one, but it might be a few weeks before I can get to that.