Corian made by Du pont

trentu

trentu

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Anyone ever used any of this stuff for knife handles? I bought some off ebay and didn't find out what it was until I opened the package. Just listed as black knife handle material.
 
Yeah, Lots of people use it. It machines well and is a stable product. Resists staining too. I think if you use it you'll find you like it.

Shawn
 
It works very nicely.Keep all corners and edges rounded or smoothed to a bolster or something.This just keeps it from being able to chip out very easy.

Bruce
 
I use it to practice filwork on because it files like butter! LOVE it! When I'm done I sand or cut off what I have done and go again. Cheap too.
Matt Doyle
 
Bruce Evans said:
It works very nicely.Keep all corners and edges rounded or smoothed to a bolster or something.This just keeps it from being able to chip out very easy.

Bruce
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Makes a nice countertop (just installed a bunch in the 'assembly' area of my shop).

Seems too prone to chipping--especially in thin secitons--- for my taste, but maybe not as much as MOP, and that's a popular traditional material.

I prefer micarta if I'm looking for a tough synthetic, but by all means try the Corian out:)
 
I have only used it on a few kitchen knives.....To match counter tops....You can make a knife holder block and the knives to go in it out of a matching color to a customers counter top....

Otherwise I mainly use it as bench cover material and metal forming pieces,works good to make a drilling table jig for a quick setup on a one of a kind knife....Lots of uses,just rememeber it will chip!:eek: :D

Bruce
 
Bruce Evans said:
I have only used it on a few kitchen knives.....To match counter tops....You can make a knife holder block and the knives to go in it out of a matching color to a customers counter top....
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That sound like a neat idea. Never thought of that:thumbup:
 
I am not exactly an experienced knifemaker but I use corian on quite a few of my knives. I'm actually working on one right now that has black corian handles. I've never had trouble with chipping, but I did learn that you can't peen pins into a corian handle. I tried it once and shattered the handle on about the 5th strike. I think black corian looks very nice buffed up real well.
 
to pin corian you first must do a slight countersink,Then dont hit the pins hard.Just peen them easy.....It does work....Think of it like this,if you cannot pin corian you will waste allot of pearl,corian is good practice for learning to pin any expensive and fragile handle material,and it is allot cheaper...

As for the kitchen knives,you can actually use a piece from the same counter top,by getting ahold of the sink cutout.Get hooked up with one of these guys that fixes houses up to resel and is using corian on his counters and make him a deal to do a set for all his kitchens as little gifts to the buyer.

Bruce
 
You can get allot of free scraps from the cabinet shops and installers in town also...

Bruce
 
I think Corian makes a damn decent handle... Here is one I made a few years back for Paul Bos to match his kitchen counters..

It even smells good when you grind it..:cool:
 

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I use it as a spacer when i do deer horn. I just drill out donuts with a hole saw in a drill press. it really shines great.
vern
 
My AGRussell kitchen knives are Corian and they work fine though I haven't dropped them.
Corian is acrylic with a filler .Other countertop materials like mine are polyester with the same filler and similar properties.
 
Made a few corian knife handles. Like the way it polishes up.
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