Kind of a shop tip.

L6steel

L6steel

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When you're permanently assembling a knife, take the time to mask off the blade and other areas you don't want glue to get. It used to drive me nuts trying to remove excess glue. On my drop points, which have no bolsters or guard, I cover enough of the hilt so that I can put the handles in place and take an exacto knife and cut the tape to the shape of the ends of the handles. I also tape up the ends of the handles. This is very helpful on a blade with a satin or scotchbrite finish. Now instead of fighting the excess glue, I just pull the tape off. I hope this helps some of you folks! Michael

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After epoxying the handle and clamping it up I wait 10 minutes and then dip a Q-Tip in paint thinner and wipe up the excess epoxy. A check every 10 minutes or so makes sure you get it all off. this is most important to do up at the front if you have no bolsters.

tape sounds much cleaner Mike! I'll try that on my new project!

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I use Devcon, 2 ton, 5 minute epoxy. If you watch it closely, you can peel away the excess glue at all the critical points in about 5 mins after you glue up the handles. You have to be quick, but it works great and leaves no trace of glue.
 
I coat the blade with Rennasance wax
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wherever I don't want epoxy.
I also watch and remove the epoxy with a Qtip and acetone.
 
shop tip within a shop tip... most epoxy even in that sticky sorta semi set up state can be removed with plain white vinegar... Ya gotta watch out casue sometimes lacuer thinner or acetone will get under your handles and ruin some of your epoxy bond, plus it just dries out your skin and forces what epoxy you have on your hands into your pores...

Try out vinegar, i was surprsed at what it does to epoxy...

Alan...



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Shop tip within a tip within a tip....
Vinegar works well EXCEPT....
Do not use vinegar on mother of pearl, it will desolve it!

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I tried duct tape and it worked good. But I also tried waiting for about 30 min with the devcron 2 ton (it seems to dry slower) and peeling it off when rubbery. Both ways have worked good for me. The last one I took a rag soaked with wd40 and rubbed and removed all of it in its rubbery state. Take a piece of softwood and carefully scrape it off where the rag will not get. I am interested in the vinegar and q tip. Might try it next.

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