Making your own G10

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Got a big knife I want some G10 and while looking for a decent supply/price I found this. Have not seen it posted before and not saying it has not been, either way here you go.
http://www.mnbigbirds.com/FIberglass Lay-up.htm

Probably a lot easier to just buy some but this might be fun to play with I think. I may have to try it and play with getting some different colors and such.
 
Yea I think it does. A heated press would not be overly hard to come by I wouldn't think. Might be more of a pain in the butt than it is worth. Might be real easy. One of those things a guy would have to tink with.
 
depending on the resin you use you may or may not need heat, that's not real g10 in the tutorial (I'm pretty sure g10 has a specification) but its a good way to make fiberglass or any composite at home (you can even use newspaper). but pressure is definitely going to help, that being said, for a knife handle its not at all necessary, it's going to have the same abrasion resistance either way. if you want a press Carver makes some great heat presses, we have several of them at work. I use them hot and cold for molding all kinds of plastics.
 
Although G10 is made with an epoxy resin, the resin they use is a lot harder and is heat set. You can make the stuff on your own, but it will be softer. Lots of guys in this forum make their own stuff with all kinds of materials mostly linen, canvas, denim, and burlap. FOD comes up with some outrageous stuff,even with glow in the dark properties.
 
It probably would be fun; just remember that it won't match the quality of what can be brought though since they use industrial grade of the expoxy; which as far as I know, can't be brought. Even if it could, there would be no way to make it to the same standards without voids, etc.
 
BladefulArt said:
It probably would be fun; just remember that it won't match the quality of what can be brought though since they use industrial grade of the expoxy; which as far as I know, can't be brought. Even if it could, there would be no way to make it to the same standards without voids, etc.
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you can buy just about any grade of epoxy you want if you search online, tap plastics even sells a pretty good variety (I'd avoid them though). but since its going to be attached to a knife handle, flexibility, strength etc are really not important, it just needs to be hard enough to sand and not so brittle that it cracks.
 
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