Ugly vs Pretty

Daniel Fairly Knives said:
I was actually at wal-mart looking at the different colored duct tape thinking...
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Good luck. I tried that with camo duct-tape, trying to layer up a camo pattern that would repeat as you shaped the handle. Regular epoxy never set up with the duct tape, it just stayed gooey and peeled right apart. :(

If you find something that works, please let me know.
 
I think pretty is physically more demanding,... but ugly is psychologically more demanding...

... You can get the pretty off a pretty knife but,... you can't get the ugly off an ugly knife.
 
james terrio said:
Good luck. I tried that with camo duct-tape, trying to layer up a camo pattern that would repeat as you shaped the handle. Regular epoxy never set up with the duct tape, it just stayed gooey and peeled right apart. :(

If you find something that works, please let me know.
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I didn't really get any, I was looking though. :D I'm going to stick with layered G10 for now.

I have done a bit of epoxy/polyester resin work, it seems that anything that isn't part of the system screws up the bond. Dry stuff works fine though, I have some different colors of glow powder I'm going to put in some burlap phenolic, it's gonna be cool.
 
Tai Goo said:
There was a knifemaker here in town for a while, whom upon finishing a knife used to lay it down in the granite gravel and dance around on it. How cool is that? … not only did it ugly up the knife, it was also a fun test for it! LOL :)

... kind of like they do with jeans, guitars all sorts of stuff. The weathered look... the funky look! :)
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Tai... When I get a side of cowhide in I spray it with a hose, lay it down on my gravel driveway and walk around on it.... or ... sometimes I wet the side, lay it out on my table, grab a pair of drumsticks and jam out to a CD. Deep Purple's "Made in Japan" seems to bring out the best tooling patterns... lol.


Rick
 
Cool Rick!

I'm thinking about just making it and leaving it ugly... not trying to ugly it more or pretty it up,... just leave it alone.

... just let ugly be ugly. So ugly it's pretty. :)
 
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Daniel Fairly Knives said:
I have done a bit of epoxy/polyester resin work, it seems that anything that isn't part of the system screws up the bond. Dry stuff works fine though, I have some different colors of glow powder I'm going to put in some burlap phenolic, it's gonna be cool.
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I don't know if it was the material/texture of the tape itself, or more likely the adhesive on it, but it didn't work worth a damn. I looked into a similar idea just buying camo fabric but you'd need like a zillion yards in order to get the pattern to repeat and have enough matching layers to get pieces thick enough for scales. (that's why I tried the tape in the first place, it repeated every couple feet so I didn't have to buy so much)

I've bought some burlap/phenolic stuff with glow powder in it from ShadeTree (FOD on here), and it really is cool, go for it!

Tai Goo said:
... kind of like they do with jeans, guitars all sorts of stuff. The weathered look... the funky look! :)
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The Fender Custom Shop charges BIG dollars for pre-beat-up guitars. I don't quite get it myself, all my axes got beat up the old-fashioned way and it didn't cost me any extra :D

12345678910 said:
I see a lot of new makers think a buffer is one of the first can't do without tools and I just cringe at what I think they have in mind.
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Sometimes I think those guys figure all that glitters is gold, and the world will beat a path to their door if they polish their turds enough.

Geometry trumps all. A well-shaped, well-balanced blade of any decent steel will cut well.
 
Pretty knives always cut better than ugly ones. If a knife can't cut, then it is by my definition an ugly knife, no matter how fancy it is. A knife that cuts well and feels good in the hand is a thing of beauty no matter how crude the finish.
 
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