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GRapp
I saw best results getting flat scales by hand-sanding them with a large piece of sandpaper on top of a sheet of glass — or other “known flat” surface, like maybe a part of your workbench that isn’t torn up by other uses. Also there’s a technique to it: you wanna go fairly slow so you don’t create a “wave” in the sandpaper because that will just take too much material off the ends of the scales. But you can use pretty coarse sandpaper because that will just help the epoxy adhere better.
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Critique please
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It's certainly not the worst knife I've ever seen. I'm not sure there's any major improvements that would need to be made that you couldn't relatively easily correct on the next knife.
Use it for a while, live with it, look at it, and you'll find enough things wrong with it soon enough that you'll want to change on your own.
Did you use a checkering file for the jimping? It looks like the file may have slipped a few times.
Use it for a while, live with it, look at it, and you'll find enough things wrong with it soon enough that you'll want to change on your own.
Did you use a checkering file for the jimping? It looks like the file may have slipped a few times.
Yes, I tried an X pattern and failed. I'm going back to straight saw teeth style.