Hidden tang, Epoxy fill?

[ron_m80]

I am working on a knife modification. I purchased a Condor Barong, and changed some of the blade geometry, I also removed the old handle and black finish, reshaped the tang to a rat tail style, welded a piece of stainless all thread to the tang tail, and fit it to a large piece of brown Micarta from AKS (only place i found HUGE micarta for a hidden tang handle), and machined it to fit the tang and threaded rod. I got all that done and shaped the micarta pretty close to its final shape, and about now I want to fill and epoxy the blade in its new handle. In this instance there is greater than normally desired gaps that need to be filled, so it has to be tough, and relatively slow setting to give time to adjust and tighten the blade in place.

I have never done this before. So if you have advice, or pointers I would appreciate it. thank you.

 

[R.H.Clark]

I would use acraglass from Brownells.It shrinks less than one tenth of one percent.Clean your tang well with acetone before you epoxy. Also rough it up with 36-60 grit sandpaper and maby file a few notches in it to give the epoxy a good surface to grip to before you clean it.Tape off anything you don't want epoxy on and don't move the tang inside the handle untill it has set up,about 24 hours.

You might also mix a little of the brown dye that brownells sells for acraglass just in case any gaps show.There won't actually be a gap but you don't want to see the clear glue line.

 

[SBuzek]

I would use acraglass from Brownells.It shrinks less than one tenth of one percent.Clean your tang well with acetone before you epoxy. Also rough it up with 36-60 grit sandpaper and maby file a few notches in it to give the epoxy a good surface to grip to before you clean it.Tape off anything you don't want epoxy on and don't move the tang inside the handle untill it has set up,about 24 hours.

You might also mix a little of the brown dye that brownells sells for acraglass just in case any gaps show.There won't actually be a gap but you don't want to see the clear glue line.

Spot on but in this use even Devcon 30min. will work for the epoxy.Or I use West System 3.
Stan

 

[Leatherface]

I would use acraglass from Brownells.It shrinks less than one tenth of one percent.Clean your tang well with acetone before you epoxy. Also rough it up with 36-60 grit sandpaper and maby file a few notches in it to give the epoxy a good surface to grip to before you clean it.Tape off anything you don't want epoxy on and don't move the tang inside the handle untill it has set up,about 24 hours.

You might also mix a little of the brown dye that brownells sells for acraglass just in case any gaps show.There won't actually be a gap but you don't want to see the clear glue line.

yea that

Acraglass is some good stuff...

 

[ron_m80]

Acraglass it is, thank you. I will have to get some pics of this one when its done.