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You can take some fine sanding dust from the same wood, and mix it with slow cure ( 30 minute at least) epoxy. Use a toothpick or Xacto blade and pack it in the gap. Rub it in with a finger tip, and then put on some more. Once the gap is packed full, leave a little excess above the gap and set the knife aside to cure for 24 hours. Sand the excess down with 400 grit paper then touch up the handle with whatever grit you did originally.

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Depending on the size of the gap, for larger gaps I cut a wedge of the same wood, cover with epoxy and tap into the gap, sand flush and it can fill a pretty good size gap and not be notice, for small gaps i do like bladsmth.
 
Another approach would be to use a fiber or G10 colored spacer, tapped in half from each side. If you need to make the gap evenly wide in order to be able to press in the spacer halves, or wood wedges, a hacksaw blade can be ground to the thickness necessary.
 
Salem Straub said:
Another approach would be to use a fiber or G10 colored spacer, tapped in half from each side. If you need to make the gap evenly wide in order to be able to press in the spacer halves, or wood wedges, a hacksaw blade can be ground to the thickness necessary.
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I like that idea. I am getting ready to do my first guarded knife and I may need to use this.
 
To prevent this I always add a spacer or liner and also run it along the guard. I take some acrylic paint the same color of the spacer and mix it in the epoxy. So if there is any gap caused by error or voids in the handle material it is filled with the colored epoxy. Use very little color so your not mixing 1/3, 1/3, 1/3.
 
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