west system question

I've used the 105 resin and 205 hardener for over a decade.
There may be other options out there - but this combination will out-perform most of them.
You'll be fine. I promise.
 
Hold it...I use the same stuff on my Kayak and for filling voids on some of the live edged table tops I did. Are you telling me this would work for knife handles too? I have half a gallon of the resin.
 
Hey Mark,

105/205 will work fine. The only thing that is not optimal with those two is that the epoxy is quite rigid when fully cured. The steel and the wood or G-10 scales will expand and contract at slightly different rates with changes in temperature. As Karl says, chances are very high that the different expansion and contraction rates won't make a bit of difference. G-flex was formulated to have a very slight amount of expansion and contraction built in. Thus, for a knife, G-flex is the best by a very slight margin and 105/205 is perfectly acceptable.

Tim
 
205 hardens up pretty quickly in the pot. 206 is a bit slower. The late John White turned my on to colloidal silica as a "filler" You don't have to use much, but you should use some as straight resin and hardener is designed for "wetting out" cloth, not as an adhesive although it will work in that capacity on hidden tang blades for sure. G-Flex, as best as I can tell, has had the appropriate amount of filler material already added.
 
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