Problem in putting handle on coated blades.

It may be too late now but I got around that by completly assembling and finishing the knife before coating the blades.

I use double sided adhesive tape designed for carpet laying to temporarily hold the scales in place during assembly. When the scales are ground,sanded and polished I remove them and send the blade for coating.
Afterwards I just epoxy the scales in place, trim off the pins, resand the area near the pins and repolish the scales neaar the pins.

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george
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Jens,
Another way of doing it is with screws. 4x40 up thru 10x32 will work, depending on the blade thickness. I just tap the blade and run them in halfway from each side.
They hold much better than pins and with good, flat handles you can get away without the glue.
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They can be countersunk in the handle and a plug can be glued in over the screw head.
 
Jens,

I've been puzzling over this one for all of the short time I've been making knives.

Best thing I can figure is to attach the scales (slab tang) with bolts that have countersunk heads that won't be ground off in fitting the handles. Completely finish and shape the handle scales, so they are ground flush and polished to a final state. Then remove your bolts and take the handle slabs off. Coat the blade, then re-attach the handles. Skip epoxy, 'cause you won't be able to clean up any that gets out from under the scales. You might be able to leave just the bolts unfinished until this step and then grind them flush, otherwise just leave the handle removeable.

That's my guess, but I admit I haven't tried it because it seems like a lot of trouble for coatings I don't like anyhow.

-Drew
 
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