Repairing Micarta

revisiting this thread, now that i can see pics. it's always great to pick up little tips. never thought of using a scrap piece of leather as a backing for sandpaper. i usually just fold several times over into about a 6x1/2" strip and "shoe shine". if i need to "bevel", then i will wrap it around a scrap piece of wood or micarta. leather though? ... genius! :thumbup:

thanks again Phillip. good stuff.
 
Wow. Just simply wow.

Phillip, thank you for doing all that. What an awesome demo. I seriously don't know another knife maker that would do all that for a compulsive customer that is concerned about a tiny blemish... and it is not even a Fiddleback! (Allen is part of the Fiddleback family, but the knife I dropped is not one of Andy's knives).

I love Fiddleback Forge for a lot of reasons, the biggest being that they make functional art that is meant to be used hard. A close second is that they are great people that provide awesome customer service.

Thanks again, Phillip. You rock!!
 
Phillip, you were already awesome. Now it's legen.......wait for it....dary!
 
ncrockclimb said:
Wow. Just simply wow.

Phillip, thank you for doing all that. What an awesome demo. I seriously don't know another knife maker that would do all that for a compulsive customer that is concerned about a tiny blemish... and it is not even a Fiddleback! (Allen is part of the Fiddleback family, but the knife I dropped is not one of Andy's knives).

I love Fiddleback Forge for a lot of reasons, the biggest being that they make functional art that is meant to be used hard. A close second is that they are great people that provide awesome customer service.

Thanks again, Phillip. You rock!!
Click to expand...
thank you very much Charles.
Scotcha said:
Thanks Phillip. Very informative and useful tutorial [emoji106][emoji106]
Click to expand...
glad to be of some help Abe
schmittie said:
Phillip, you were already awesome. Now it's legen.......wait for it....dary!
Click to expand...
thanks for the compliment
i'd say that's a bit of a stretch. I didn't do it for any other reason than to help Charles not have to send his brand new knife off
 
I was basically in your shoes a few weeks ago. I had a folder that has G10 scales and over time the scales got a little beat up... I just started with a 600 grit and sanded away. I found the scrapes and marks to be rougher than I expected so I went down to 240 grit. That removed enough material to smoothly resurface my G10 handles... So from there I gradually increased my grit all the way to 1500 to where I was happy with the slight shine I achieved.
5c5118077da205fd2cb02f27f0c7f758.jpg
b221e132c7dab7f16e1cb9e46dccfd45.jpg

Not the best before and after, but you can tell the bottom one has no gouges or scrapes. GL to you.

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top