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Old 12-22-2015, 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by ricky_arthur View Post
I like them, good work. I see you play around a little with the handle design, now lets see a little blade variation. I like the pin placement, its different but it works. On your first one it doesnt look like you over drilled the holes, it looks like you got the pins too hot when you ground them back and they burned the wood around the pins. Go slow when grinding the pins to avoid this. Nice work for your first knives.
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Originally Posted by Ray Rogers View Post
Looks good. You are probably overheating the handle pins as they appear to have dark circles around then on the light colored handle. Could be glue, I suppose, but in that case you might want to try a different glue...
You know I didn't think about that but I think you're both correct. I used gorilla glue brand epoxy amd it cures pretty clear so the color isn't from the epoxy.
Thanks for the input!
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