what would a handle test be?

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Hi this is DaQo'tah

well I did it again,,,I sanded too far down as I was doing the handle, and I hit the tang.

this means that I have to now grind off the whole last half of my 3-part oak handle.

Its too bad too, for I had placed this oak for 2 weeks in "Wood Hardner" and I had the start of a great knife handle....

well, I was thinking, if I got to cut the handle off anyway, what would a test look like for a handle? to test if the glue is very strong?

What I was hopeing to learn is that some guys have done a type of test that shows just how strong a Hidden tang handle can be made to be?

I was thinking of clamping the blade in the vice, then standing on it, but is there a offical handle test that guys do?

daQ
 
Don't know if this helps, but the last knife I tested the handle on destored the blade, but the handle held fine. Clamped all but about an inch in the vise, then put a pipe over the handle and worked back and forth till I broke the blade.

Don't know of any non-destructive test. Whenever I forge one for destruction(or srew one up), I put a crude hardwood handle on too.
 
DAQo,

You are precious.

Don't destroy your grind. You can save the blade. Grind the handle off. If, from that, the handle parts pull away you will know the answer to your question.

Roger
 
okay, I will just grind off the wood and when I get down to the glue I will do a few checks to see how strong the bond is.

This has been a hard knife to finish,,,first I have ran out of spacer material, so (as it was the weekend) I decided to do an experiment and I used waterpump gasket.

then I used 2 TON epoxy again to glue it.

Now I did waite about 18 - 20 hours later for it to get hard, then I started to rasp on the oak,,,while I was working the wood down, all at once I noticed that the last section of oak handle was moveing under the rasp!.

so I just reached out and grabbed the last section of oak and pulled and pulled, and it came off.

The 2Ton Epoxy was kinda hard, (Like a glass) near the steel tang, however there was no sign that the glue was getting hard near the wood.

I grinded off all the glue next to the steel, but to get all the glue out of the wood hole I decided to use my drill press.

as I was drilling out the glue (Free hand) I ...well...I kinda put the drill bit down in the wrong spot.

I knew at the time that I had made a mistake, but,,,well,,the oak was almost shaped the way I wanted it, I thought I could just keep from sanding down to this new drilled hole.

Now this time I decided to screw the 2Ton crap, and went back to useing my J-B WELD.

I mixed it real real real good, and used a ton of it,,,there was so much glue that it was all over the oak as I slid the tang down into the oak.

I let it set for a good 24 hours,,,then started to sand it.

well..I forgot to not sand too deep and I hit that one hole off to the side that I drilled by mistake cleaning out the glue.

Now the handle has to come off,,,,.


the battle go on....
 
Just put it in the oven @ 250 degrees F, for 1/2-1 hour, and pull the old handle off. It's very simple.
 
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