More hate than love for Kirinite

[ACLakey]

It's times like this when you shut the machines down and call it a night! This is the second time in two weeks I've had Kirinite do something unexpected. I love the way this stuff finishes but hate working with it!

 

[jdm61]

A few years back, Claude Bouchonville used something similar to kirinite that had gold colored foil cast into it. It looked super cool, but he said that it had a bad habit of doing what that piece did to you.

 

[JG Custom Metal Works]

Meh, probably for the best. That stuff looks a little tacky imo.

 

[Robert Erickson]

That stinks! Good call on walking away because that's the point where you want to see if the knife will stick in the wall
Probably can happen with natural materials too unfortunately

 

[john april]

i had a scale fall 3 feet off my workbench onto the concrete floor, the scale cracked in half. i lost faith in any acrylic/plastic material for handles.

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Odd on the material but I'd be looking into glue-up too.

 

[Matthew Gregory]

i had a scale fall 3 feet off my workbench onto the concrete floor, the scale cracked in half. i lost faith in any acrylic/plastic material for handles.

No confidence. Can't afford to have that happen. Won't use endgrain wood, stabilized or not, for the same reasons.

 

[Britt_Askew]

I am with Matthew on the endgrain, that is just a problem waiting to happen.

As for the kirinite I will not be buying more of it. Still not satisfied with the quality of my work I have just been making a knife and throwing it in a box with the rest. Recently i took a hammer and busted the scales off of about 100 knives (yea I know I have problems) and it only took a very small tap of the hammer to just completely demolish the kirinite. Some of the wood handles damn near needed a maul.

 

[ACLakey]

Epoxied the chip back in, shaped the handle, now I'm sealing the joint with CA glue before wet sanding and polishing. It won't be perfect but it will be functional.... The dead critters won't mind.