Shadetree Phenolic Discussion

Matt and Koyote,

I really appreciate the feedback and encouragement. I really am looking forward to seeing my stuff on more knives.

I do think that the glow scales have some obvious utility, in addtion to being pretty cool. I can understand them not being for everyone.

Yes IIRC, that was an acrylic yarn. The wools are just too expensive to play with.

Regarding felt, I have not tried the pure wools, only some 20% wool blend felts, but mainly the synthectics. I have not started haunting the second hand cloths store for wool sweaters, but it is just a matter of time until I do so.
 
the wool yarns are also not as consistent in color where as the acrylic can be exactly the same skane after skane

-matt
 
Have you ever seen or have access to small plastic letters? I might be cool
to have someone's initial's floating around in the phenolic slabs.
 
well, I may sound like a hippie here, but I'm wondering if using a natural fiber with the right washing (in fact, you'd want the cheapest roughest, lowest lanolin wool yarn available) might not bind better to the matrix. Not that there's anything wrong with what I'm sanding right now! Just thinking out loud.....
 
Koyote, Any type of oils play havoc with the epoxy bond. A way around that is an acetone rinse of the material, but that tends to do away with the hippy ideals, ya know? Cost is another issue, albeit minor. Perhaps as suggested, recycle on old, well washed wool sweater. I like the idea of using the old red wool makinac material too...

Speaking of hippy, Ill be recycling some old tie-dye t-shirts soon...stay tuned!
 
Shady, I got the blank you sent. I cant wait to try the stuff out. On a side note, I might have to send you a BDU shirt or pants so you can make me a blank or two. You know, the desert stuff would rock too. I would venture to say the coton winter weight stuff might look better, the summer weight stuff has lines running down the stuff. not a color so to speak, but a change in thickness. as they get to be "unserviceable" from washing too much the lines come out more.
 
I can do it, but the main issue is the pattern not going thru the material. So I need to cut and stack the stuff, orienting it all the same way, which is time consuming. The material then is "one-way", if get my drift. I think the ripstop stuff would work OK. Iam working on some ACU colors just now, so I'll keep you updated. I think matching the colors without using ACU pattern material might be the way to go tho...
Glad you got the blank, I can't wait to see what you do with it.
 
well hell, if you gave me the specs for measurements, I could cut and stack the stuff myself, tape it to a piece of cardboard so all you have to do is saturate and press it. But this is down the road a hair. I am going to start using the texalium this week.
 
bump time!
I am still looking for feedback, comments and constructive criticism.
Do you hate some of the things I am doing?
Do you like some of the things I am doing?
Do you think they have issues or or needs improvement?
What would you like to see different?
What do I need to leave alone?
Please let me know...

Anyhow, enough begging...what do think of these:

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made from this:

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And a neat hybrid...black denim and texalium stack:

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and some fun with felt:

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Thanks for looking!
 
I really like the colors in Delbert Ealy's post, especially the jade look with glow powder. What is the material in that one? What is the glow powder exactly?
How much for a set of scales in that material?

Thanks
 
EIDO said:
I really like the colors in Delbert Ealy's post, especially the jade look with glow powder. What is the material in that one? What is the glow powder exactly?
How much for a set of scales in that material?

Thanks
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Those were made from a fuzzy green yarn. I used green glow powder and sand from glow Inc:http://glowinc.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=3

If I were to do it again, I would omit the sand and use only the powder, it just seems to work better.
For a pair of scales 3/8 x 1-3/4 x 5-1/4 would be about 39 plus shipping.

Thanks for the interest!
 
Hey Del,
Long time no talk. I've been meaning to call you, but ya'know how that goes...
The denim and tex went out to someone else to decide if they want it, but that's ok, I can make more (I have plenty of that denim:cool:). I will press out another tonite, or tommorow, depending on my time and get it out to you ASAP.
 
Todd,
I got the denim/taxalium today, can't wait to use it. In the meantime here is the red canvas.
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Thanks,
Del
 
hey man. you might have mentioned it already, but i'm too lazy to read through this big ol thread.
do you have nay carbon fiber instock? thanks man
 
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