Bone Adhesive?

[the4th]

I recently purchased a beatiful piece of old bone. Today, I cut the bone in half (Now I remember why I REALLY want power tools!) and started sanding the inner surfaces flat. And the thought hit me that I don't know how to make the bone stick to the metal. The steel in question is currently "stone washed" ATS34.

Should I rough up the area that the bone is covering? Should I rough up the bone? Should I use epoxy? What type and/or color of epoxy? Should I use some sort of spacer material? Any advice will be appreciated and followed.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Bruce Evans]

I have found out the hard way if you scoff with to rough a grit it will show in your joint.clear epoxy works fine.Spacers look nice ,but a good tight joint shows your attention to detail better.If you plan on pining your bone down roughen the surfaces to 400 grit and clamp it tight when you epoxy it and you will get a nice finished joint.Hope this helps....Bruce

 

[Rob!]

Based on the false premise that there is no such thing as a stupid question - What is stonewashed ATS34?

Thanks



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Rob Ridley
Ranger Original Handcrafted Knives

 

[Nathan House]

on your question about bone
I used a deer leg bone ask a handle on one of my knives it was a hidden knife
I used Micro bed for it and it worked great
if you are useing it as a scale type handle
a good trick to get it to stick is
sand blast the tang,on scale handles
i like to use auto body fiber glass
it is thine so I ad babypowder to it to thickin it
and you can ad stain in with it to make it the same color as your handle,it will out last epoxy 10 to 1 epoxy is good for about 5 years then it wants to crack and break lose
try what i said it works well for scales
it sound a little different.put it works.