Pourable plastics or resins

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Elleipein

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I was wondering if anyone has had any experince using anysort of pourable plastics, silicon, resins. I am trying to figure out if it is possible and what I should use.

This is one of those ideas that comes when you are in a dentist chair with a drill in your mouth.
 
of course I mean for handles sorry I was still kind of drugged from the dentist at the time I posted that.
 
I've used both polyester and polyurathane casting resins and wouldn't really recommend either for knife handles as the polyester is too hard(chipping) and the polyurathane is too soft(scratching). This advice only applies to "using "knives, display pieces shouldn't be a problem.
 
I have been doing soem research and the normal art Plastics, Poly's, and Epoxy type resins are not suited as you said. But I found soem others that would work. They are all Pourable and Sprayable Corrosion Resistent Polyester Resins. i also read a little about the hardness scale that resins use. There are 2 different scales one for Plastics and one for rubbers. Both scales run from 0 to 100. a Rubber with a hardness of 0 would be like warm gum, 80 would be around a plastic. And then plastics would be really soft at 0 and way too hard at 80. I am searching around right now to try to find a Rubber around 50 to 60 hardness that is still corrosion resistent.

Thats for the information about your experinces.
 
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