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Guy Thomas

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Here is a nifty trick for making a temporary disposable protective sheath for you blade when you are working on the handle or such and you don't want to gumm it all up with masking tape.
Take a piece of card board box and cut a piece the same size as your blade only about a half to one inch larger all around. Then slide your blade into the cardbooard, between the layers and then wrap it all up with masking tape.
This actually lasts a while and also serves to protect the finish on your blades until you get a sheath made! My tool box knives often have these sheaths and they last for years.-Guy Thomas
 
I have made many a carboard sheath for knives...but when working on one that is already sharp...I HIGHLY recommend wrapping it a million times with tape...MUCH safer.. the carboard sheath can come off.....a little WD40 takes the tape gum right off.

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Try the Blue Painter tape
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None to very little sticky gummy mess!
 
Another handy trick (and I don't remember where I read this, but the idea isn't mine) is to slip a piece of rubber bicycle inner tube over the blade. The rubber is incredibly tough and if the knife isn't sharpened yet, it will even take a few misplaced file strokes without tearing through to the mirror polished blade.
Ron
 
I agree with Tom. I wrap my blades in multiple layers of duct tape when I work on the handles, especially if the blade is sharpened. There is some gum left when I take it off, but I consider it worth the extra two minutes I spend cleaning off the gum. It protects me and it protects the blade from getting scratched.

But cardboard is great for just storing a blade.

Incidentally, I use acetone to clean off the gum, but WD-40 sounds like a good idea.
 
Hmmm, I've always used spray on carb cleaner. That stuff will even take off dap weld wood contact cement. If the handles are already on, spray it on the rag and then vigorously wipe the blade using the hither to unknown circular motion. OOps, flashback I guess!!!

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Carb cleaner is fun to take roofing tar off your hands when you have no running water available, just don't make a habit out of it. Of course, I wouldn't know anything about that...
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Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?

The Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Scene I.
 
WD-40 will take off the tape gunk, it will also take tar and grease off your hands.

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L6, it's good to know there's at least ONE other Zappahead on BF...

Nanook Rubs It!!!

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Tony King
Tulsa, OK
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes bleed the hand that uses it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
 
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