[TheForge] More on knife gluing

[Andy Gladish]

I don't know nothin about nothin.
Except perhaps that the more knives I make the less I want to trust glues as 
much more than fillers, leaning towards using heavy mastic to keep out water 
from between handle and steel, and depending on mostly riveting for the 
attachment...I do love the look of a rivetless scale handle, but until I 
figure out a way to make a physical attachment it doesn't seem practical.
If you could get the end user to keep the knife oiled and never soak it in 
water, what a world that would be.

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From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] More on knife gluing

> When i worked in the fishmarket...the knives that showed
> almost no deterioration ( save for sharpening) was the
> long thin knife used on lox ( oily smoked salmon bellies)
> and the knives in the poultry section. Same with beef
> butcher's knives it seemed to me.
> So, maybe fat is the answer? A suet insert?
> The tradition was to rebuild the blade furniture every
> now and then, over many years.
> Some traditional blades, and sculptures for that matter,
> were designed to be broken down for maintenance. That's
> the classy way to go i imagine.
> But you know all this.
>
> Andy Gladish wrote:
>> Precisely.
>> The challenge is to make something that gets better with age and use, 
>> like a
>> fine musical instrument.
>> Almost all resins seem to deteriorate.
>>
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>> From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
>> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:09 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] More on knife gluing
>>
>>> While it's very nifty stuff for glass..bonds between
>>> silicon and both metal and wood, deteriorate with time
>>> and exposure.
>>>
>>
>>
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