How To G10 guard help

[i4Marc]

I think we have to get away from this idea of "cheating". We are a community of creators, builders and problem solvers. There is no one right way to do things. If you have a gap and can't peen it closed, pigment your epoxy and fill it. There are plenty of folks who feel peening the gap closed on metal guards is cheating. G10 is fiberglass and resin. Micarta is the same idea. You are not filling the hole with toothpaste, you are filling it with a similar material to the G10. If you want to mix G10 dust in with the epoxy, you can do that too. Do whatever works as long as the resulting fix is a quality work-around.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3a8erUjqCD/

 

[Nick-D]

I think we have to get away from this idea of "cheating". We are a community of creators, builders and problem solvers. There is no one right way to do things. If you have a gap and can't peen it closed, pigment your epoxy and fill it. There are plenty of folks who feel peening the gap closed on metal guards is cheating. G10 is fiberglass and resin. Micarta is the same idea. You are not filling the hole with toothpaste, you are filling it with a similar material to the G10. If you want to mix G10 dust in with the epoxy, you can do that too. Do whatever works as long as the resulting fix is a quality work-around.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3a8erUjqCD/

Beautiful clean fit on that knife man.

Cheers yeah that's a good piece of perspective thanks. I guess as a very new maker for me it's less about "cheating" per se and more about spending the time now to learn how to do it right for the next round, rather than repeating the same process for the same results.

Out of interest the fitup in the knife linked is suuuper clean, do you have a shoulder filed the whole way around the tang or just on the top and bottom? (Spine and heel).

 

[i4Marc]

Beautiful clean fit on that knife man.

Cheers yeah that's a good piece of perspective thanks. I guess as a very new maker for me it's less about "cheating" per se and more about spending the time now to learn how to do it right for the next round, rather than repeating the same process for the same results.

Out of interest the fitup in the knife linked is suuuper clean, do you have a shoulder filed the whole way around the tang or just on the top and bottom? (Spine and heel).

Just on the top and bottom. I had a tiny gap but applied dyed epoxy to the gap areas and let it cure. Then came back very carefully with a file to clean up and press fit. Took a few tries to get it right.