Making a Custom Mosaic Pin for your Knife
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- This is the process I use when making these Mosaic Pins.
I tried some different materials this time round and came up with a good result.
This pin is going to a mate in the States - TH-camr - ER720
Have to acknowledge CrashbladeKnives' instructional on this,
great Vid, and where I sourced the original info - • Homemade Mosaic Pins - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Ive been going over ideas for literally years as to how Im going to finish a knife that Ive been making for my fathers 2nd retirement gift. This video just gave me my answer. Thanks Friend
-Jess
@ER720 Sweet mate. She went into the post this morning so 2-3 weeks there should be a Box from Oz on your doorstep.
Cheers for the tip on the respirator. I have wondered about epoxy dust/fumes. As for gloves. I generally ware latex when doing the poor, hate the feeling of epoxy on my hands.
Cool, amazing how well it came up after the sanding. I like it.
Cool idea! I watched Crash's video too. Perhaps you could use the syringe to push the glue up from the bottom, (or horizontal position??), and, have a jig of some sort (or a total modification of your set up) so you can stabilize the tube as the decorative material is being inserted. Really less messy than Crash's set up, but that is a minor consideration. I really liked the color idea from the recycled copper wire. Thanks for sharing, and taking the time to show us how you technique works.
@AussieMark909 Thanks Mark. I had no idea if this material was going to come up well, super stoked when it did. Its got lots of potential.
Really like your work man. Love your pins and beads are really awesome. You are a true craftsman.
That's a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, its pretty basic but it works with these materials. The guys that make very intricate designs use a pump and suck the epoxy up. Thanks for coming by.
Great tutorial man, that looks spectacular! I think it would look super cool if you managed to mix in some glow in the dark powder in the epoxy you use.
Very cool !! I like that a lot .. It looks vert tough !! Thanks mate !! I am going to get to work on the handle material this week .. I have time set a side for it :)
Too easy mate. Glad you liked the vid.
And yet it works so well for simple design. Have a look at my Spyderco Woodcraft Mule video, I made the pins in that and used the same technique. So it is possible to add intricacy using this technique. It just requires patience.
@inquisitivewolf Hi, because it's all such a tight fit. The three strands of wire hold themselves in that position, and would look like that before adding epoxy. The epoxy just locks them down. Have a look at the link in the dis option box, it takes you to CrashbladeKnives tutorial and he talks about Dry Fitting, to make sure everything fits and sits into position first.
Thanks for watching and your kind words.
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uses brake vacuum to draw the resin, seems to be a cleaner method with less mess.
nice idea on the coloured wire as well.
Heat the epoxy will thin it to almost water consistency. It is much easier to pour into the tube then. Thanks for the vid. I like the idea of using a lot of different materials.
Bob Williams great idea, thanks
Put the tube in the epoxy and add vacuum to the other end, vinyl tubing with a vacuum source, that should simplify the operation.
thanks
The type of filters for your respirator should be particulate and V.O.C. rated for using resins like this. (V.O.C. is volatile organic compounds) I finde nitrile gloves better than latex fo this type of work, they are a little tougher and you don't have to worry about latex allergies.Now I know what I'm gonna make this weekend!! Thanks and cheers!
@jdthesaint1 Thanks for the idea JD. You gotta go watch the vid in the description box over at Crashs' page. His vid is very good.
@BaronVonReservoir Hi. The brass rods are sold through hobby shops. Theres a company called Small Parts.com. They are based in QLD, great helpfull folks. Thats where I got a lot of the materials from for some previously produced pins like the ones I used in my Spyderco Mule. The epoxy and epoxy dies I got locally from a hardware. The copper cabling used here is a recycled material from the telecomunications industry.
Thanks for watching mate.
Most of it just peels of, some I have had to scrape off with a knife. The give light sand, which you want to do anyway so glue holds better when you use your pin for binding scales.Comes off dead simple.
This is just how it is for this type
To eliminate the slow epoxy filling, maybe syringe it from the bottom upside down. Looks like the syringe might fit the tube or modify it to fit some way. No vacume : )
@themediocrepirate Your right. I need to get some of that.
Love the result but you seemed to have chosen the most difficult method. Using the vacuum method is much quicker and a lot less complicated and time consuming.
Tubes were from Australian Knife Supplies, rest is just hardware supplies or scrap.
Absolutely beautiful work.
Question: How is it that the copper/orange wire was perfectly symmetrical and centered in the end product? I would have thought the epoxy would have displaced the position of the wire (if you know what I mean). :)
My pleasure mate.
@cam131313cam You were right. That was Random - lolz. Thanks for watching cam
Great job! Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the video! Unfortunately, the process does not apply to complex models pins.
These are the models produce not work.
@bus142cm Thanks for the tip mate. How do you stop all the epoxy just running back out over your hand wilst pumping it in? Know any video examples I could go look at?
Thanks mate, I'll check that out.
awesome job ! thx for vid
one thing you should always do is wear a respirator while working with epoxy even in small amounts I work in the boat building industry where I work around this stuff daily it is extremely toxic the vapors are more aggressive than most people understand if you ever wonder why you start having a cough for no reason is well doing junk like this without the proper safety protection also rubber gloves are a good idea and safety glasses last thing you need is a globe of that in your eye
Yeah, would be the way to go.
like the wire idea
Great job! Where do you buy the supplies?
how did you get the excess glue off of the tube
Yeah, just some creative recycling.
@renatojuri Thanks buddy
How did you get the epoxy so runny?
No thanks. I'll try the vacuum pump method.
Too easy, thanks.
check out jacklore's vid on mosaic pins he's got the syringe method sorted
@troy5690 you should be getting yours in about the same i sent yours out today :)
when I say respirator I mean something with charcoal or chemical vapor ratings on it your ordinary dust mask wont help
bottle in back ground says ass trade centre
How much do you charge for you mosiac pins
Never sold them, don't plan to.
Does the big bottle say ASS TRADE CENTRE on it lol
where did you buy the square tubes ?
michael lee Hobby Parts Australia or something like that
anyone else notice the "ASS" trade centre label on the epoxy...No?...ok then
Nice try but you should really master the technique before putting it on line
brian jones the technique was fine fella, I achieved exactly what I set out to achieve with the tools I had. Not sure what your issue is. Maybe you could make a vid showing your perfected method. But you won’t.
@@troy5690 you're right fella and I apologise, I suppose there are tidier videos on this subject. As you say, you achieved the desired result with what you had. Again, my apologies, keep posting and I will watch. Good luck
yeah there bad very very bad lol I think it may be safer to sit in a room full of petrol fumes
Sorry, but that was painful to watch. Why not drill a hole in the wood, fill the tube from the syringe and stick in the hole...
Bill K. So don't watch it dude. Ffs. Don't tell me your problem.