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Wow, beautiful wood and beautiful job on the scales.
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Nice. A fun project to do. I made one from a kit last summer. A friend had given me a small piece of rosewood that was just large enough to make the handles. Turned out well. As a matter of fact I just used it to slice a lime. Cheers.
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High marks for placement of that particular piece of wood. With the sapwood tailing off the end of it, looks like you planned it
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Can't ask for more than that.
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You say it's comfortable in hand. Well, it's really hard to tell from here.
Send it on down and I'll see if it's true.
Great scales.
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Thanks guys and I surprisingly did plan the tapering off of the lighter colored wood and even more surprisingly was able to pull it off. I have two more of these kits and two larger style tanto blades to do, so I'm looking forward to making those, after the success of this one.
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You said you were finishing it/them with pure tung oil. Don't..that stuff takes a long time to dry - days and days between coats. And there's no compelling benefit unless you plan to drink it. Or you love the smell (guilty).
Buy polymerized tung oil or add pure tung oil to something else like a varnish to make a custom blend.
If you must use pure tung oil, the CW is that you can speed up the drying time by heating it up, e.g friction polishing.
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Bought 5 of those kits for my grandsons. I used the provided screws...I like your scales a lot better. The screws are so long the handle ends up much thicker. Too thick.
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MKepke said:
You said you were finishing it/them with pure tung oil. Don't..that stuff takes a long time to dry - days and days between coats. And there's no compelling benefit unless you plan to drink it. Or you love the smell (guilty).
Buy polymerized tung oil or add pure tung oil to something else like a varnish to make a custom blend.
If you must use pure tung oil, the CW is that you can speed up the drying time by heating it up, e.g friction polishing.
-Mark
I used TO because I had it and it was the first recommended finish for knife scales I found. I am definetly going to blend it next time, but I do like it and it is easy to use.
Bob
