Wrap Test #8: Hillbilly faux-carta

[rcmodel]

Have you got a rubber belt cleaning block?

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Horn-19547-12-Inch-Abrasive/dp/B001DDTIYW/ref=pd_bxgy_hi_img_y

rc

 

[Sam Cade]

Have you got a rubber belt cleaning block?

Yup.


On a related note, the last one (rubber on a stick type) I got from the mom-n-pop hardware store was so old it shattered when I dropped it. I don't know how they keep the doors open.



I just got a shipment of belts and other fun stuff in, including some 40 grit "hogging" belts.




I'm going to try and bump up my process efficiency the next week and do some more materials research.


mmmmmm..... 80 grit with 320 on the side. Delicious.

Haha... Wrong picture. Christmas at my house.

 

[Sam Cade]

There we go.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Grind them good Sam.

 

[Sam Cade]

V.04b.

Rehandled Gerber "Pee-Drinker" Parang

Used a splotchy golden yellow cotton fabric.

Clamped on the flats with woodblocks, edge and spine with high density foam.

 

[Sam Cade]

Final on Gerber Pee-Rang.

Grip feels fantastic.

Shame it is on an inferior blade.

 

[JShirley]

Sam,

You should drill through that Ontario lanyard hole, so a lanyard would still be an option (there is a metal ring there, right?).

Looks good- I'll get that denim out to you tomorrow.

John

 

[Sam Cade]

You should drill through that Ontario lanyard hole, so a lanyard would still be an option (there is a metal ring there, right?).

That was the plan but I stupidly forgot to make a template of the bare tang so I could locate my holes.
D'oh.

I thinned it down quite a bit from the backside so that I could put a shop light behind it and locate the hole via illumination.

Next time I wrap one the ....spur... will be wrapped as thickly as the rest of the tang.

 

[RTR_RTR]

The contour on the 2nd to last grip looks very nice. I also really want a lucite coffee table filled with insect carcasses now. Thanks

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Good job Sam.

 

[heron]

This reminds me of the first knife I ever made -- so bad I threw it away, but for the handle, I built up layers of epoxy until it had pretty much the shape I wanted, then I carefully laid leather boot-lace onto a final layer of wet epoxy. Looked cool and felt good, but I couldn't tell you whether it could be trusted or not.

No, I had no idea what I was doing.