[TheForge] More on knife gluing

[Bruce Freeman]

This may be a very off-the-wall suggestion, as I'm not a knife maker.

As a flexible glue, have you considered silicone RTV (room-temp.
vulcanizing) rubber?  This stuff is strong enough to hold glass
aquarium tanks together, and is flexible as all get-out.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Andy Gladish <gladish at cablerocket.com> wrote:
> Any idea which epoxies flex?
> So far the problem area is right where the blade goes into the handle- the
> blade is a bit flexy, and that's where it fails if it's going to
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "James Binnion" <jbin at well.com>
>>
>> If you are gluing different materials together (wood to metal or
>> copper to steel for example) you are better off with a epoxy that has
>> some flex to it to allow for the differences in thermal expansion
>> between the materials.
>>
>>  Now if I could just afford his epoxy, $1100 for 16 oz. , sheesh.
>>
>>
>> Jim
>
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Bruce
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