Put a slab handle on a full tnag knife?

This is why I like to cut my own scales off of wood.

1. Cut your scales, and make sure they are squre, flat, and even thickness.
2. Glue on any liners, and once cured, trim so that it is flush with scale material.
3. Tape scales together. (If you've tapered your tang, this shortcut won't work, but for a flat tang, this is a big timesaver.)
4. Tape the blade to the scales you've already taped together, and on the other side of the block, tape on a piece of Home Depot paint stirrer to prevent tearout.
5. Drill through the tang and both handle blocks.
6. Remove knife, and shape sand and finish bolster end of scales.
7. Glue up.
8. Shape remainder of handle.
 
You don't have to agree with me, but read those datasheets before you accuse me of half understanding anything. There are published maximum and minimum bond thicknesses, these aren't theories, people with more money and time to test them published this data. The glue does not gain strength linearly over thickness. Surface area contact is not the same thing.

adambomber said:
what do i know.....but to me the more epoxy you have to an extent the better, for example, you dont just put one tiny drop on the handle, you have to go down the length of the tang....this in itself proves that the area covered to an extent does improve the bond......and think about this.....maybe the epoxy adheres better to the scale material than to steel?

if the epoxy adheres to the scale better than to steel than the whole "linear" theory goes out the window for this instance.

do you get what im saying?

say a 1/64 " stream was perfect amount and no thicker amount improved the bond to the steel, and acrids theory is right, still, if you have a enough contact between the two scales with epoxy thats a completely different bond.

acrid i think your missing the trees because of the forest...no offense, but i always take experience, and knowledge over peoples half understood theories.
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oh ok i see what your saying now, that the thickness doesnt matter past the amount stated.

Still if in all his experience these holes make a stronger bond, it must be another factor then.

Do you think it is possible that the scales bond together better than the scales bond to the steel?
 
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