Finishing after stonewash

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GoatOnFly

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How do you finish the handle on a stonewashed knife without taking off the finish on the spine or around the edges?
 
Temporarily mount the scales and finish the outside edges. Remove the scales, apply your stonewash and then re-attach the finished scales being careful to clean up the excess epoxy before it cures.
 
Hidden pins. I use hidden pins on most of my blades. Drill your holes through the tang and then use thoes holes to guide the drill into the scales to make holes. If your not doing hidden pins then you would go all the way through. I go about half way into the scale material. Repeat on the other set making sure to flip the knife over so you have a left and right set of scales and not 2 lefts or 2 rights. Then use pins that fit the hole in the tang perfect. The scales should just about snap into place. I use the pins for shaping the from guard area of the scales as well. It makes sure thy are the same on the front. Just pop in the pins into the scales and put the scales together. Once the front is roughed in I then take them apart and put them on the tang one side at a time and trace around the tang. Then use a band saw to remove extra material. Then back on the knife thy go and off to the grinder I go. Once finished you remove the scales and finish the blade how you want and then attach the scales back on. But for this to work the pins must be a good fit in the tang and scales.
 
A couple drops of super glue work well. Then it's a few light taps and the scale comes right off. I put the knife edge down on a rag, tilt it slightly and tap the spine with a rubber mallet. This shears the glue. Repeat tilting the knife the opposite way to remove the other scale. I usually do 2 small drops per scale.
 
+1 for both of these... the glue keeps them from moving and i highly recommend the hidden pins. that way your holes will line up exactly where they were when you sanded. if you follow JTknives routine you (almost) cannot go wrong.
 
I use a different method but it works for me. I etch the blade then attach and shape the handles. Then re etch and stonewash. Works great and keeps a better fit and finish for me.
 
GoatOnFly said:
How do you finish the handle on a stonewashed knife without taking off the finish on the spine or around the edges?
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When I was work on scale for my hard chrome knife , I made a copy of tang from cheap steel ................
 
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