Carbon Fiber Help....

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Mike Turber

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Well I am sure it has been brought up before but the search feature is still down.

I need to know any tips or secrets in working with Carbon Fiber. I plan on modifying several knives with CF inlays and need all the help I can get. Thanks in advance.

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Mike Turber
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Mike,

I don't use Carbon Fiber but have read / heard that it's rather dangerous to work with. Be sure and wear serious breathing protection and use a dust collection system that works. I understand the carbon fiber dust can be absorned through the skin.

Better safe that sorry...

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Thanks. I have a plexiglass aparatus set up on a table with glove cut outs. Inside is a belt sander. A hole is cut in the table and a shop vac is attached to the hole to allow the fiberglass to be sucked out.

What I need to know mostly is the grit to get a smoth surface which does not look scratched and how to make a radius to smoth the edges.

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Best Regards,
Mike Turber
BladeForums Site Owner and Administrator
Do it! Do it right! Do it right NOW!
www.wowinc.com

 
I'm just learning this stuff. I've been finding that everything I normally use either cuts too fast or not fast enough. For example, my Scotchbrite wheel (to my surprise) just tears through the stuff, so I don't even need a belt for chamfering or radiusing. Trouble is, nothing else I normally use seemed to cut enough to "soften" the egdes after that. Using green chrome, white diamond, or a more abrasive white compound, I just got a beautiful polish with no cutting action at all - just every rough edge all shined up! I finally went to the dark grey I use for cut and polish on steel, and that seemed to work a lot better. It gets some cutting action, but only enough to "soften" the edges, not enough to do real "damage" like the Scotchbrite. Follow that up with white diamond and it's lovely. Still, I'd like an alternative (with some cutting action) to this greasy grey bar intended for metal.

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-Drew Gleason
Little Bear Knives
 
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