duct tape micarta?

let me know if it works. if it works then im going to be having mossy oak breakup micarta handles. i bet it would be beautiful.
 
Why not just go to your local fabric/sewing shop and buy some cotton camo material?
 
cause the pattern is too random and its hard to find where it actually does repeat. and to make scales or even a test piece you would have to buy about 30 yards and hope to be able to find enough repeats to do it. ive checked out camo patterns before at the fabric store. its about $6.99/yard. that can get expensive.
 
a yard at the fabric shop is usually more than us "guys" think. Generally, it's folded up a few times, so you actually get more like a few square yards.
 
but when your dealing with a certain pattern, like camo brands, just to get a pair of scales you would have to buy many many yards of it just to get the repeating pattern to line up. i generally see solid colors used. i have done alot of research on mossy oak breakup cause i was going to use it to redo my car seats. i was looking at the pattern and it was about one repeat about every few yards.
 
Like PimpinSquee said, camo patterns come in a large, ummm , block of image. It your camo was a very small pattern, it would look dumb and stand out.

If it repeats a yard both ways, you'd have to make a square yard chunk! $$$ :(

On the other hand I did find something I think would work and look cool... until I find a suitable camo material.
 
It would be kind of like cheating.... but, what about this:
Shape up your scales to fit the blade. Un pin it, soak the camo cloth in epoxy, wrap the scale, and put another couple of layers of epoxy.

Sand it down just into the cloth, (since it's already shaped and fitted) and you should have a close replica of true micarta.
 
WOW that is a cool idea!!! Thank you Mr Bowen. I will definitely give that a go, I have a butt-ugly knife that would work great on. :thumbup:

I still have something up my sleeve, tho :D
 
GibsonFan said:
WOW that is a cool idea!!! Thank you Mr Bowen. I will definitely give that a go, I have a butt-ugly knife that would work great on. :thumbup:

I still have something up my sleeve, tho :D
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You're welcome. And please call me Dave. I'm not old enough to be Mr. Bowen just yet. lol

Let me know how that works out. I might try it myself. I need a new knife for bow season.
 
The problem with most camo cloth is the fact that te pattern is printed on the cloth. What happens is you layer up the cloth to the thickness you need and press. When it comes out of the press it looks great. When you sand it you sand the pattern off of the cloth just as you do paint on wood. The color is printed on the cloth the cloth itself is not the different colors...if that makes sense. So as you sand it you just get a handle that is the color of the base cloth that the pattern is sprayed on. I have tried this with several different cloths and get the same results. Anyway let me know if that makes sense.
 
It's disappointing but it does make sense. I knew there had to be a reason I hadn't seen this. I think I'll give Dave's idea a whirl while I try to come up with a plan.
 
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