Micarta Monday - Traditional Knives Only, Please

[Ben Kabisch]

Not Monday yet, but here’s one I just finished!

 

[Honest_Thomas]

 

[Will Power]

Ram X Bison

 

[5K Qs]

GEC #72 (thanks, Dee):

- GT

 

[Corto_Malt]

 

[SteveC]

 

[unclekurty]

Bakelite on this Lloyd.

 

[mbkr]

Bakelite on this Lloyd.

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Is bakelite a type of micarta? I always thought it was a type of resinous plastic, but without the cloth/fiberglass/paper medium
Regardless, that's a cool knife

 

[mbkr]

Linen

 

[SteveC]

 

[unclekurty]

Is bakelite a type of micarta? I always thought it was a type of resinous plastic, but without the cloth/fiberglass/paper medium
Regardless, that's a cool knife

Thanks. They have phenolic resin in common. And the scales seem lighter than say a linen micarta type product. From future AI overlord:

No,Bakelite is not Micarta, although they are both phenolic composite materials. Bakelite is a specific type of phenolic resin created by Leo Baekeland, and Micarta is a general term for a range of similar materials, some of which use Bakelite as a binding agent.

 

[Tyson A Wright]

Thanks. They have phenolic resin in common. And the scales seem lighter than say a linen micarta type product. From future AI overlord:

No,Bakelite is not Micarta, although they are both phenolic composite materials. Bakelite is a specific type of phenolic resin created by Leo Baekeland, and Micarta is a general term for a range of similar materials, some of which use Bakelite as a binding agent.

Don't trust your AI overlords too much - Micarta is not a general term (although it gets used that way among knife people) - it's a registered trademark of Norplex.

 

[unclekurty]

Damm my future AI overlord Tyson. Asked me if I’d like a Xerox of the answer. I found a digital representation of this AI;