[TheForge] More on knife gluing

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

While it's very nifty stuff for glass..bonds between 
silicon and both metal and wood, deteriorate with time 
and exposure.

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> 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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