Having a heckuva time where I'm going to have a wee bit of a gap where my tiger-maple scale meets my brass bolster, with a black (poly/PVC) accent liner in between, just on side. Turns out the brass bolster was a teensy bit "rockered" and I can't take it down without making a mismatch with the bolster edges on the other side (and the scale for that side's already drilled). (For reasons too complex/boring to get into, but: I already had the blade on hand and brazed and the customer wants that blade because (reasons); ditto that wood, so, [bad words deleted] - otherwise I'd just start over and [more bad words] would really like to... this is one of those "had I only known going into this; now I'm actually losing money, lesson learned I hope...")
So I need to drill the scale and put it on nonetheless, and just fill a tiny bit of 'daylight' with some black magickal gap-filler, on that side, which will be the 'bottom' of the handle as seen by the knife user (it's a hankotsu - Japanese specialty butcher knife). I'm using BSI Maxi-Cure. Scales have black vinyl/pvc liners between tang and scale as well as scale and bolster.
Any thoughts welcomed. On the gap-filler, not how I got into this mess.
So I need to drill the scale and put it on nonetheless, and just fill a tiny bit of 'daylight' with some black magickal gap-filler, on that side, which will be the 'bottom' of the handle as seen by the knife user (it's a hankotsu - Japanese specialty butcher knife). I'm using BSI Maxi-Cure. Scales have black vinyl/pvc liners between tang and scale as well as scale and bolster.
Any thoughts welcomed. On the gap-filler, not how I got into this mess.
