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04-08-2012, 09:39 PM
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I was going to do that but I only had half an hour to run to the shop, unclamp everything, clean up my mess and get back to my parents place. So I only had enough time to sand down the one edge lol. I will do some more tomorrow to see what it really looks like I like the way your micarta turned out.
I think I might end up using micarta on the KITH because I dont want to have to worry about non stabilized wood getting wrecked or warping and all that stuff.
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04-08-2012, 10:12 PM
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I hear ya. A few weeks ago I started a batch of bolivian rosewood in a minwax wood hardener "stabilization" It has been curing for a couple weeks now, so once i find some time I'll do some testing on those slabs and see how resilient it is. If it isn't a winner, I'll likely do my KITH with my micarta too.
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04-08-2012, 10:19 PM
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Slacker, I have spent the past year trying to master stabilizing wood. I have read alot about minwax wood hardener but the problem is with the very small amount of solids left behind. I think its around the 80% solvent range so thats not leaving much. I have also tried the "plexitone" soup where you disolve acrylic plastic in acetone and use a vac chamber to suck all the air out of the wood. Same problem, only a little bit of that soup is solids so that doesnt work well either. I have some special polyester resin that is for vac-bagging fiberglass parts it has a fairly long open time of over an hour. I got some penitration with that stuff but an hour is not long enough to stabilize wood. There is a product I would love to try called misquite mans "cactus juice" It only looses 0.01% of its weight when hardened. Its about 100 american for a galon but if it truely works like he claims it does its alot less money then paying 50 bucks for enough to do one knife. Here's the link to the "cactus juice"
If shipping to Canada wasn't almost the same price as the galon I would buy it right now.
http://www.turntex.com/index.php?opt...art&Itemid=121
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04-09-2012, 01:42 PM
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Slacker, what kind of canvas did you use for your micarta? I looked around the city here and all i can get for cotton canvas is the natural color light tan stuff. I can get colored canvas but its polyester and i'm not sure how well that would work.
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04-09-2012, 03:19 PM
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As unmanly as it is i had to go to Jo-ann fabrics to get the canvas I used for mine. look for duck cloth, or duck canvas. They had at least 7 different colors, I purchased tan olive black red and blue.
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04-09-2012, 04:04 PM
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Now is that cotton or polyester?
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04-09-2012, 05:15 PM
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Metal99. I'm farm in the lashburn area. East of lloydminister.
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04-09-2012, 07:36 PM
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Cool man but at the same time it kinda sucks being a knife maker in this provence doesnt it lol.
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04-09-2012, 09:51 PM
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Metal, I got the same stuff from the same place. Duck cloth or duck canvas is all cotton, dyed canvas. But from what I've read, micarta can be made from virtually anything. If all ele fails, get some cheap bed sheets in the colors you want and do it that way.
I was planning on making linen micarta my next voyage into the fiberglass realm.
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04-09-2012, 09:55 PM
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I have all the fine cotton I would ever need to make the micarta I just prefer the heavy canvas look. I found duck cloth at the art store but its just tan colored . . . they dont carry the colored stuff. I found some colored water proofe treated canvas but I can just imagine how well that would work lol.
I'm slowly getting more and more money in the piggy bank for the belt grinder. If get enough for a griz before I find a local one I am going to order it
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04-10-2012, 12:47 AM
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If you can only get tan duck cloth get some rit dye and make it whatever color you want.
Most grocery stores carry it and its only a couple bucks.
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04-10-2012, 12:53 AM
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How hard/messy is dying fabric?
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04-10-2012, 05:41 AM
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It's really not that bad. Just a big pot to boil in and some RIT dye from Walmart.
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04-10-2012, 10:03 AM
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Cool man maybe I will give it a go this weekend
So does anybody els have any progress to share with us on the KITH?
I picked up some polester and acrylic fabric for making awnings and boat covers today. I don't know if they will work or not but my fingers are crossed
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04-10-2012, 02:40 PM
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From what I have read polyester and acrylic might not be the best materials to use for the micarta. It is my understanding that the material has to absorb the resin and polyester dosent seem to fit the bill. If fabric stores are in short supply hit a few garage sales this weekend, denim jeans aren't as "heavy" as canvas but a few bucks should net you enough for a few dozen handles
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