Sam Cade
Member
Recently I procured a couple of the OKC, Old Hickory 7-14 butcher knives.
These are the biggest traditional knives that OKC makes.
1095 steel, usually well heat treated and free from gross grind defects. Nominal .10" thickness, both of my examples miked at .11"
Feeling frisky I knocked the off the scales of one of the examples and wrapped the exposed tang with fiberglass resin soaked cotton fabric then machined the resulting composite material to shape in situ.
For a prototype, it came out fairly well. I had the usual process time issues (lack of pot life in this instance ) but the process itself was fairly easy, though messy.
The main concern seems to be keeping adequate, equally distributed pressure on the grip while waiting for it to cure
I used a tape wrap and had some minor surface voids caused by folds and overlaps. In the future I will use plastic stretch wrap covering, which should do a better job I think.
Haven't touched the blade shape yet....so many possibilities.
These are the biggest traditional knives that OKC makes.
1095 steel, usually well heat treated and free from gross grind defects. Nominal .10" thickness, both of my examples miked at .11"
Feeling frisky I knocked the off the scales of one of the examples and wrapped the exposed tang with fiberglass resin soaked cotton fabric then machined the resulting composite material to shape in situ.
For a prototype, it came out fairly well. I had the usual process time issues (lack of pot life in this instance ) but the process itself was fairly easy, though messy.
The main concern seems to be keeping adequate, equally distributed pressure on the grip while waiting for it to cure
I used a tape wrap and had some minor surface voids caused by folds and overlaps. In the future I will use plastic stretch wrap covering, which should do a better job I think.
Haven't touched the blade shape yet....so many possibilities.