This is golden material my friend, and you're very generous sharing that. Finished a knife a couple days ago(after a 30 years pause) and now going for the micarta handles. Definitely I'll try your method sooner or later(maybe grinding the mold to get some tiger camo pattern). Subscribed to your channel for this material and also because you're an atheist like me haha. Greetings from Argentina :)
Thank you sir, I allready made a video were you can see how it runed out, i would recomend to use some softer paper so you can press it deeper for more contrast :-)
PVA is water soluble in water so soak the cured assembly and it will separate easier and clean up too. Why not use one shaped block and a flat one to press together as you don't see the flat side after attaching to your knife. Slick video thanks
Hi ,yes i konw its water soluble, thank you :-) hte idea of only one shaped block is good, but it will not press the material in such a nice way, since it will compress it in one spot and not compres it in other spots, so the layer thickness would not be same thru the piece ;-)
@@WildStyleWorks Then in place of flat sections cut it in ribbons so it can move around in the mold. Look at how some make marbled Micarta, this will allow the material to fill out the shape of the bottom mold and a flat top. Using the same fabric will give the result you have, with less waste.
Great job with a very interesting pattern. When you pried those apart I don't think you were wearing safety glasses, I was fearful for you, I have learned the hard way that safety glasses are really a necessary thing in the workshop. All the best with future projects.
Thank you, if you look close i was wearing them, just not the way they should be worn ;-) when my eyes are endagered i wear my glasses for sure, but in this case it was not necessary becuase i was using very small force to remove the pieces. i had aceton, super glue, metal shavings, wood splitners, stone shrapnell and lots of other stuff in my eyes, thats how i learned it :-) and the thing that burned itself the most into my thoughts (my eyelens) was a very tiny piece of glowing hot scale form a knife i was forging. that was really not comfortableand but a good lecture in wearing glasses. thanks
I certainly didn't have the intention of lecturing you, but like you I have caught a few things in my eyes, so perhaps now I'm a little overly cautious. Keep up the good work, very creative, I appreciate learning new techniques, thanks and take care.
Thanks, i made it myself out of some HDPE aprox. 1/2 inch thick. i used a dey grinder and a tungsten carbid bit to make the first mold part. then coated the hole thing with PVA , made a frame of ducktape around it and filled about 1/2 inch of resin in to make the second part
stimmt es war auch nur ein test ob es klappt und ich wollte meinen schraubstock nicht voll epoxy haben. wenn ich das öfter mache baue ich eine pressvorrichtung für meine wagenheberpresse
Awesome work ! Man , i´ve a question . I´m using denim or jeans for my micarta and polyester resin . Once it's hardened , it has an awful odor , How do you get rid of that stink ? I think it´s because the styrene monomer gets out but how do you eliminated that ?
thank you, now first of all i dont use polyester resin, i only use epoxy resin, wich has no smell once its cured. polyester resin will allways have that smell to it in the beginning, but i guess it will disapear over time. but normaly you get better results with epoxy resin.
Thanks for the reply ! I´ll try the epoxy resin then ! Btw what is the brand that you are using ? i´ll be glad to know because i want to compare it with the resin i´ll buy tomorrow .
I´m back , thanks for the reply ! I just finished my micarte , i made it with 7 layers of blue denim and transparent epoxy resin . I´ve got one question , when it´s done , it has a white stain on my denim , did you have the same problem before ? or do you know how to get rid of that ?
Thank you . that could also work but i dont know how the resin reacts to wax, that could go wrong, i use a PVA-->Poly Venyl Alcohol solution. that works very good and is pretty cheap. and aslo the manufacturer of the resin recommended to use PVA. because its a very good seperating agent.
Wax paper doesn't stick to the molded micarta or the mold as much. Less harsh chemicals also. It is less clean-up too! May the LORD GOD Almighty, bless you and keep you; I pray LORD GOD Almighty, make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; and give you Love to Share, Health to Spare, and Friends that Care and Laughter always; it is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside. The LORD GOD Almighty, lift up HIS countenance upon you, And give you peace in Jesus Name, AMEN!
well....... now you need to know, i am atheist, but thanks for your prayers. i respekt the believes of other people, but i dont realy understand it. i will try out how my resin reacts to wax. but i think next time i make micarta i will make it with linen or cotton because paper is not as flexible.
i made it my self, its made of a HDPE cutting board and i carved it out with a tungsten carbide bit and a dye grinder. its pretty easy to make if you have a sharp bit. and the other half is made of 2k resin, cast on the HDPE piece so they fit perfect together.
its a UV-light proof resing i had left over from stabilising. dont know hot its called i guess it was the UV 3200 but you can use allmost every resin just look for a long worktime. at least 1 hour would be good cause it takes a lot of time to get all layers together
Intresantes Video. Aber ich glaub beim Hochladen ist irgendwie was mit dem Format passiert. Rundherum schwarze Balken obwohl es 16:9 ist da kann was nicht stimmen :)
Dude! If you like to live longer and not spend all your money on healthcare, do not bring your unprotected nose that close to resin fumes and resin dust!!!
Nice job, I was going to subscribe but when I saw you grinding with your unmasked face 3 inches from the belt, I thought what's the point. You probably won't be making any further videos.
@@WildStyleWorks”no dust” que tones of dust flying off the belt sander. Seriously food grade? That’s not how that works in your kings. Any particulate in lungs is bad. Even paper dust.
I’ve done blue jean, newspaper, and scotchbrite micarta. All turned out nice. Nice job brother.
Thank you very much i wanna try scotch bright micarta my self once i find time :-)
This is golden material my friend, and you're very generous sharing that. Finished a knife a couple days ago(after a 30 years pause) and now going for the micarta handles. Definitely I'll try your method sooner or later(maybe grinding the mold to get some tiger camo pattern). Subscribed to your channel for this material and also because you're an atheist like me haha.
Greetings from Argentina :)
Thank you sir, I allready made a video were you can see how it runed out, i would recomend to use some softer paper so you can press it deeper for more contrast :-)
That second one almost looks like motorcycle chain damascus.
yea, thats true
Great work
Well designed and executed
Maybe a good respirator would be good when grinding that stuff
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Thank you very much, yes i use that respirator thing way more often in the last time 😋
@@WildStyleWorks Stay safe and make lots more Excellent videos
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very nice. that was an awesome idea.
Thanks
PVA is water soluble in water so soak the cured assembly and it will separate easier and clean up too.
Why not use one shaped block and a flat one to press together as you don't see the flat side after attaching to your knife. Slick video thanks
Hi ,yes i konw its water soluble, thank you :-) hte idea of only one shaped block is good, but it will not press the material in such a nice way, since it will compress it in one spot and not compres it in other spots, so the layer thickness would not be same thru the piece ;-)
@@WildStyleWorks Then in place of flat sections cut it in ribbons so it can move around in the mold. Look at how some make marbled Micarta, this will allow the material to fill out the shape of the bottom mold and a flat top. Using the same fabric will give the result you have, with less waste.
Very cool ! But dude, you need a mask when you are sanding that :cO
Thanks, i allready have one and started useing it for such things.
Great job with a very interesting pattern. When you pried those apart I don't think you were wearing safety glasses, I was fearful for you, I have learned the hard way that safety glasses are really a necessary thing in the workshop. All the best with future projects.
Thank you, if you look close i was wearing them, just not the way they should be worn ;-) when my eyes are endagered i wear my glasses for sure, but in this case it was not necessary becuase i was using very small force to remove the pieces. i had aceton, super glue, metal shavings, wood splitners, stone shrapnell and lots of other stuff in my eyes, thats how i learned it :-) and the thing that burned itself the most into my thoughts (my eyelens) was a very tiny piece of glowing hot scale form a knife i was forging. that was really not comfortableand but a good lecture in wearing glasses. thanks
I certainly didn't have the intention of lecturing you, but like you I have caught a few things in my eyes, so perhaps now I'm a little overly cautious. Keep up the good work, very creative, I appreciate learning new techniques, thanks and take care.
So am i but still a fool sometimes ;-) Thank you very much you too have a good one
Turned out pretty sweet!
yes it did :-)
That looks really cool, I like both patterns :P Would love a blade with handles made out of that :)
Thank you, i allready made on. the video is here th-cam.com/video/iTYhTDA5Huk/w-d-xo.html
Very cool!
Thanks
Looks nice !
Thanks
Beautiful a true masterpiece
Thank you, i allready made a knife with them
10/10 coke nail.
Lol not really it is for scratching and cleaning my ears :-) like a japanese mimikaki ear cleaning tool just better
."awesome
Bruh that's what I noticed too, he's got straight up coke nail
This is great!!
Thank you
прикольно! на плоскости так смотрится а на рельефе(рукояти) по другому будет выглядеть! респект!
yes thank you that was my goal and it worked out pretty good but when i use linen instead of paper it will be even better
Did you make that mold or did you purchase it? Looks wonderful !
Thanks, i made it myself out of some HDPE aprox. 1/2 inch thick. i used a dey grinder and a tungsten carbid bit to make the first mold part. then coated the hole thing with PVA , made a frame of ducktape around it and filled about 1/2 inch of resin in to make the second part
Feel the need to tell you to put a dusk mask on, dried resin is not something you want in your lungs.
Micarta came out awesome though!
Thanks
Hi, finnally found the way to make that patterns on micarta, where do u get those molds?
Made them my self, the underside from hdpe with a tungsten bit and then cast the upper part from epoxy
@@WildStyleWorks very nice! thank you for ur answer
coole Sache . aber warum packst du das nicht in nen schraubstock da ist die druckverteilung viel gleichmäßiger?
stimmt es war auch nur ein test ob es klappt und ich wollte meinen schraubstock nicht voll epoxy haben.
wenn ich das öfter mache baue ich eine pressvorrichtung für meine wagenheberpresse
Awesome work ! Man , i´ve a question . I´m using denim or jeans for my micarta and polyester resin . Once it's hardened , it has an awful odor , How do you get rid of that stink ? I think it´s because the styrene monomer gets out but how do you eliminated that ?
thank you, now first of all i dont use polyester resin, i only use epoxy resin, wich has no smell once its cured. polyester resin will allways have that smell to it in the beginning, but i guess it will disapear over time. but normaly you get better results with epoxy resin.
Thanks for the reply ! I´ll try the epoxy resin then ! Btw what is the brand that you are using ? i´ll be glad to know because i want to compare it with the resin i´ll buy tomorrow .
my resin is from germany and i called Resin 72, i dont think you will find it, and i dont know a brand name of it.
I´m back , thanks for the reply ! I just finished my micarte , i made it with 7 layers of blue denim and transparent epoxy resin . I´ve got one question , when it´s done , it has a white stain on my denim , did you have the same problem before ? or do you know how to get rid of that ?
sorry never had such a problem but i guess it is from the dissolvent in your resin. maybe try some other resin. i dont know what else it could be.
Good Technic; have you ever tried using waxed paper between the mold and the micarta?
Thank you . that could also work but i dont know how the resin reacts to wax, that could go wrong, i use a PVA-->Poly Venyl Alcohol solution. that works very good and is pretty cheap. and aslo the manufacturer of the resin recommended to use PVA. because its a very good seperating agent.
Wax paper doesn't stick to the molded micarta or the mold as much. Less harsh chemicals also. It is less clean-up too!
May the LORD GOD Almighty, bless you and keep you; I pray LORD GOD Almighty, make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; and give you Love to Share, Health to Spare, and Friends that Care and Laughter always; it is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside. The LORD GOD Almighty, lift up HIS countenance upon you, And give you peace in Jesus Name, AMEN!
well....... now you need to know, i am atheist, but thanks for your prayers. i respekt the believes of other people, but i dont realy understand it. i will try out how my resin reacts to wax. but i think next time i make micarta i will make it with linen or cotton because paper is not as flexible.
You have no invisible means of support, to bad!
hmmm... ah ok, you mean the vioces in my head telling me what to do? of course i have thoose ;-)
Nicest micarta i've seen. +1 sub :-)
Thank you i will try to make linen micarta too and some more awesome patterns
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Thank you
Did you use epoxy resin or fiberglass resin?
Epoxy resin, and the other is called polyester resin ;-)
Did you make that mold or did you buy it? If you bought it can you tell me where?
i made it my self, its made of a HDPE cutting board and i carved it out with a tungsten carbide bit and a dye grinder. its pretty easy to make if you have a sharp bit. and the other half is made of 2k resin, cast on the HDPE piece so they fit perfect together.
Thanks for response
no problem
how did the form?
HDPE carved with rotary tool, then filled with resin and put apart to get a negative form
what resin do you use?
its a UV-light proof resing i had left over from stabilising. dont know hot its called i guess it was the UV 3200
but you can use allmost every resin just look for a long worktime. at least 1 hour would be good cause it takes a lot of time to get all layers together
Hi, very good video but I think if I had used vegetal paper in the mold took off better.
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good idea but the poly venyl alcohol works pretty good and is only a very thin layer
Intresantes Video. Aber ich glaub beim Hochladen ist irgendwie was mit dem Format passiert. Rundherum schwarze Balken obwohl es 16:9 ist da kann was nicht stimmen :)
ups ich glaube das ist mir beim rendern passiert sorry
Dude! If you like to live longer and not spend all your money on healthcare, do not bring your unprotected nose that close to resin fumes and resin dust!!!
I have allready started useing a mask, Thanks
Nice job, I was going to subscribe but when I saw you grinding with your unmasked face 3 inches from the belt, I thought what's the point. You probably won't be making any further videos.
Lol well if the stuff you grind does not make any dust, why wear a mask? Also my resin is food grade safe, so it would not be a problem at all.
@@WildStyleWorks”no dust” que tones of dust flying off the belt sander. Seriously food grade? That’s not how that works in your kings. Any particulate in lungs is bad. Even paper dust.
@@mrdavman13 true, i also noticed that, and were a mask now 😁