Epoxy developments

mete

mete

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I came across an interesting website of a company making various types of epoxies and other adhesives .This includes flexible epoxies .From previous posts about epoxies I wonder if some of their products would be of interest to knife makers. MasterBond
 
Hi Mete,
I'm interested. G-flex is the best I have found but that's not to say there is nothing better. Please put up their website. Thanks.
Tim
 
I've researched their products. They are VERY advanced, and make highly specialized resins.

They were also prohibitively expensive, I fear, and despite offering some really interesting products, I ruled them out because of this.

This is noteworthy, btw, because anyone that knows me knows that I throw money at dumb expensive shit with no effort.
 
A company that had some great epoxies a few years back was Industrial Formulators . One item they had allowed you to glue coco bolo to coco bolo and did a great job of this. I haven't used much epoxy for a long time. Perhaps they still have a great product to offer in several types.
Frank
 
With the epoxy I use you can alter the amount of resin to hardener to have a more flexible or harder and more chemical resistant end result
UHU endfest
 
I've tried a number of different epoxies, flexible and not. It'd take something really special to get me away from using loctite ea-120hp. Every time I've tried testing it's bond strength, I've always been left with a pile of wood splinters, and a thin layer of wood stuck so solidly on the tang it'd need to be ground off. There could well be something better available, but I haven't found it.
Price isn't that bad either, at least once you get past the $80 applicator gun. Its more than west systems or other larger quantity epoxies, but the same if not slightly less than hardware store 5 minute
 
Frank Niro said:
A company that had some great epoxies a few years back was Industrial Formulators . One item they had allowed you to glue coco bolo to coco bolo and did a great job of this. I haven't used much epoxy for a long time. Perhaps they still have a great product to offer in several types.
Frank
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If not epoxy, what adhesive do you use?
 
Master bond is great for building granite faced building and aerospace companies making rockets .... where the Govt' is paying the bill. It isn't that much better than what we use ( for our needs) to justify the high price. IIRC, it also doesn't come in small enough quantity that would appeal to a knifemaker..
 
Howard1 said:
If not epoxy, what adhesive do you use?
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Frank only makes liner locks, so screws instead of glue. He mentioned on my visit to his shop last week that CA is his glue of choice for what use (filling cracks and attaching liners to mammoth tooth) he need
 
Geoff Flato said:
Frank only makes liner locks, so screws instead of glue. He mentioned on my visit to his shop last week that CA is his glue of choice for what use (filling cracks and attaching liners to mammoth tooth) he need
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Thank you for the reply. At the risk of letting you all know how clueless I can be about knife making, what is CA?
 
CA=cyanoacrylate aka crazy/super glue. Woodworking and hobby suppliers sell it in large bottles for a small fraction of the price of to tubes at a hardware store. Generally the thin is used for small cracks, and stabilizing small places it needs to soak into. The medium or thick is used for filling cracks and defects after applying thin, and for times you'd want to attach scales with CA. I keep my large bottle in the freezer, and refill a tiny bottle when necessary. For some reason that seems to prevent the big bottle from ever setting up and going to waste.

A lot of people like the activator spray, but I've never much cared for it myself. It always seems to make it dry white and chalky whenever I really don't want it to. I'll normally try to glue before lunch or at the end of the day instead, so it will cure on its own by the next time I want to work on it
 
I sure like Geoff and his knowledge on knife making. Thanks for jumping in there with the explanations for me.I sure enjoy, as you know, that attitude of wanting to help !
Frank
 
Thanks Frank!
I did really enjoy our day together. You have helped so many people over the years, and it was fairly obvious to me that you know a lot more than most people could have imagined
 
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