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New handle material possibility.

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http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/25/bamboo2_2.jpg
This is a Calfee bamboo mountain bike with hemp fiber soaked in epoxy for the joints. I got into a discussion on another forum about a fiber reinforcement for epoxy knife handles and I remembered a walking cane I did years ago with the same technique on the handle and it came out looking just like this. I never thought to use it for a knife handle until now. I figure one could make a 1/4" pommel and guard from micarta and wrap this epoxy hemp (I used sisal or jute) around between them like a spool and sand the whole thing to shape. I'll get around to trying it someday but I just like to put ideas out there so have at it if you like.

Maybe some carbon fibers mixed in would make for a nice tiger stripe effect?
 
i checked out the picture and that would make for some neat looking micarta. you should try making some blocks for a slab handle knife.
 
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