oldschool45
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This is a quick fix for Chiruwa type handles.
The M43 is the one from this DOTD http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=762865
There are a lot of things going on here but I think t is safe to attribute it to the dry climate in Reno Nevada drying out the laha. Under heavy or in my case inexperienced chopping the horn handle were coming away from the Tang and the pins were drifting a bit. Not a big deal for a wall hanger but unnerving when you are swinging a 2 pound 19" long razor. The first picture is of the separation of the handles from the tang. It looks worse than it actually is because I have pried the scales away from the tang to give me more room to "apply" the "fix."
In the second pic you have the glue-up. I basically dumped and worked Gorilla Glue between the scales and the tang. Since Gorilla Glue expands at such a high rate your really need to clamp it up or it would have pushed the scales clean off the pins and tang. I think a tight warp of saran wrap or spring clamps would have worked. 6" Wilton Vice with rubber teeth guards is certainly optional.
The next 2 shots are just there to show how much that "crap" expands. To give you some idea how much force is at play here there was the faintest crack where the pommel was attached and the glue pushed though and left a pea sized bubble of expanded glue on the outside of the pommel. That is beyond what it did around the one pin shown. I glued this up in the morning around 8:30am and the "after" pictures were taken around 4pm. I suggest leaving it glued up compressed overnight. Side note here I probably just prevented myself from re-handling this one in the future as them horns ain't coming off!
Last pic is after I scrapped and sanded the excess glue off.
Next post will show the handles sanded to 4000grit after I tested the integrity of the glue up.
Additional notes here. Horn is neat stuff aside from that fact that it stinks to high heaven when you sand it. It works an awful lot like dymondwood or other synthetic handle material. I could shape this handle anyway I wanted to and could probably carve it fairly easily. This fix would also work with wood handles or if, sacrilege, you wanted to use say canvas micarta (which isn't actually a bad idea).
I'm going to do a similar work-in-progress on the re-handle I'm doing on my 12" CAK too.
Hope this helps some people re-handle or fix their Khuks.
Ray
The M43 is the one from this DOTD http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=762865
There are a lot of things going on here but I think t is safe to attribute it to the dry climate in Reno Nevada drying out the laha. Under heavy or in my case inexperienced chopping the horn handle were coming away from the Tang and the pins were drifting a bit. Not a big deal for a wall hanger but unnerving when you are swinging a 2 pound 19" long razor. The first picture is of the separation of the handles from the tang. It looks worse than it actually is because I have pried the scales away from the tang to give me more room to "apply" the "fix."
In the second pic you have the glue-up. I basically dumped and worked Gorilla Glue between the scales and the tang. Since Gorilla Glue expands at such a high rate your really need to clamp it up or it would have pushed the scales clean off the pins and tang. I think a tight warp of saran wrap or spring clamps would have worked. 6" Wilton Vice with rubber teeth guards is certainly optional.
The next 2 shots are just there to show how much that "crap" expands. To give you some idea how much force is at play here there was the faintest crack where the pommel was attached and the glue pushed though and left a pea sized bubble of expanded glue on the outside of the pommel. That is beyond what it did around the one pin shown. I glued this up in the morning around 8:30am and the "after" pictures were taken around 4pm. I suggest leaving it glued up compressed overnight. Side note here I probably just prevented myself from re-handling this one in the future as them horns ain't coming off!
Last pic is after I scrapped and sanded the excess glue off.
Next post will show the handles sanded to 4000grit after I tested the integrity of the glue up.
Additional notes here. Horn is neat stuff aside from that fact that it stinks to high heaven when you sand it. It works an awful lot like dymondwood or other synthetic handle material. I could shape this handle anyway I wanted to and could probably carve it fairly easily. This fix would also work with wood handles or if, sacrilege, you wanted to use say canvas micarta (which isn't actually a bad idea).
I'm going to do a similar work-in-progress on the re-handle I'm doing on my 12" CAK too.
Hope this helps some people re-handle or fix their Khuks.
Ray
Now we just need more rain so I can burn some of this wood I've been chopping
