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11-29-2005, 11:25 AM
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christmas knife question
hi all,, im making a knife for my girlfriend for christmas (per her request
 ) and her favorite color is green, i was thinking about using the emerald green polyester pearl for the handle. any ideas on the quality of this material and its effect on the overall quality of the knife.thanks,,bill __________________ Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once. --Shakespeare: Julius Caesar 
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11-29-2005, 11:53 AM
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Bill,
I (like most newbies) have tried poly based materials. Save your self some grief, don't. It burns very easily & it can look really cheesy on an other wise well done knife. Depending on what your doing you might want to look into the reconstituted malacite. Be careful as it contains real malacite it cares all the health hazards of working with it. Other wise there are some great green dyed stabilized woods out there that look anything but cheesy. Hope this helps, Jim
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11-29-2005, 12:42 PM
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The malachite does look great if you like grren but it also breaks easily and it's very heavy if the whole handle is made from it. I'd say either use the malachite as an accent on a wood handle or try some of the dyed green wood that Jim suggested....
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11-29-2005, 04:34 PM
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i tried the green polyester pearl stuff years ago and i would have to say out of all the handle materials ive ever tried it was my least favorite...its burns, cracks, its super fragile, warps, and shrinks worse than any other material ive tried so far. i wont ever use it again for sure. i dont know what they did to make the material that bad because ive used casting polyester, polyester resins, and other polyester materials that function just fine.
i like the ideas the others posted...malachite, stabilized wood, dyed bone. be sure to post it when youve finished it 
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11-29-2005, 07:14 PM
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I still have a piece of Acrylester in the shop I bought when I first started. I was gonna put it on a kitchen knife, but you may have just scared me out of it.
__________________ Andy Garrett https://www.facebook.com/GarrettKnives?ref=hl Charter Member - Kansas Custom Knifemaker's Association www.kansasknives.org "Drawing your knife from its sheath and using it in the presence of others should be an event complete with oos, ahhs, and questions."
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11-29-2005, 10:11 PM
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some great ideas, thanks guys. what do you all suggest i should use to dye the wood, bone etc?
thanks bill __________________ Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once. --Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
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11-30-2005, 04:40 AM
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well it didnt work for me at all but i should have mentioned it was years ago...10+ that i tried it. maybe they have changed the formula? hopefully because the stuff i had was horrible.
i have some 100% polyester casting resin that i encapsulated a penny/breath mint inside...its been carried in my pocket with car keys, dropped, slammed against the floor repeatedly by a toddler (when she got frustrated that she couldnt get the penny out lol) etc and its held up well...so far no cracks or chips and only light scratches from the carkeys....so polyester can be fairly durable thats why i dont understand why the fake pearl stuff they sell is so bad. maybe the pearlizing agent causes it. you can buy the wood, bone etc already dyed. if you want to try it yourself perhaps try leather dyes and then seal the surface with cyanoacrylate(zap-a-gap). if the material is already stabilized you wont be able to dye it. or clothing dye?
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11-30-2005, 07:39 AM
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Bill,
You might want to check with your girlfriend (since she requested I'm going to assume it's not a surprise) what she may like better. My wife, for example, does not want a knife with dead animal parts on them. If she has no problem with this dyed bone is about the cheapest, with wood and medium size giraffe bone being equal. Me, I like to see dyed giraffe and wood before I buy, the colors don't color equally and it's nice to see them first. Jim
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11-30-2005, 12:23 PM
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loved the giraffe look then i saw the price
 still love the look but it may have to wait awhile. i was thinking about a green dyed maple from tksbill __________________ Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once. --Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
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11-30-2005, 09:59 PM
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i just noticed this for sale in the classifieds on this site
http://www.knifenetwork.com/classifi...etails&id=1839
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11-30-2005, 10:08 PM
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you beat me to it man...Thats one #### fine looking piece of wood. Looks like some kind of crazy planet or something. __________________ ....a nozh scrap any time you say
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11-30-2005, 11:54 PM
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Hi Jim:
Your comment about your wife not liking dead animal parts on her knives cracked me up. It related to something I hadn't thought about in many years. My ex-wife hated to go into a certain resteraunt because there were mounted deer heads on the walls. She said she couldn't stand it because all the deer heads were looking at her!
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