I hope this works out. It worked

Chris Railey

Chris Railey

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So I have a burl end cut that is not useable for knife scales. I hate waste so I held on to it until I felt like experimenting some. Here is the end cut. It’s a shame to waste it.
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I remember looking at videos of people doing “The River” tables with dyed resin. I decided to adapt that idea here. Before we begin, I have never done this before, Not claiming to be an expert and I am sure there is at least a few things here that are stupid, wrong or otherwise incorrect. Consider this for entertainment purposes only. I started by hot gluing my block to a tray, hopefully this will help contain the resin and it should keep my block from moving.C9F170AA-915E-426B-A220-AA4FD19C975C.jpeg

then I cut some scrap to form a cube around the block. I covered the inside of the cube with masking tape so the resin will not stick as bad. It also seemed like a good idea to attach some go-rilla tape to the block to cover the voids and hopefully hold resin in place.

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the cube is now all sealed up with hot glue I hit the corners good too in case my go-rilla tape fails. I had some table top epoxy left over from a previous project so that will work for resin. I also had some cactus juice dye so I decided to use green because everyone uses blue.
 

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Kevin Zito said:
So I’m a little bit confused. Are you making “hybrid” scales?
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If that is what it’s called when you fill a big void with dyed resin and then saw the block up for handles, yes. Except, I did not cut a good block up to try it; this is a gnarly end cut from a big burl I bought. I just did not want to waste it.
 
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Chris Railey said:
If that is what it’s called when you fill a big void with dyed resin and then saw the block up for handles, yes. Except, I did not cut a good block up to try it; this is a gnarly end cut from a big burl I bought. I just did not want to waste it.
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I also have some big blocks of burl. I hope that you are successful and also taking notes. If you're really successful, I will be happy to send them your way for processing!
 
Chris Railey said:
If that is what it’s called when you fill a big void with dyed resin and then saw the block up for handles, yes. Except, I did not cut a good block up to try it; this is a gnarly end cut from a big burl I bought. I just did not want to waste it.
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when you prepped the wood, do you have to clean it real well? sorry if I missed that in a previous post. how do you clean it?
 
I cleaned it as best I could with alcohol but there are countless irregular shapes and "stalagmites" all over the voids so its hard to hit every surface. But on the flip side those same problems should provide more than enough surface area for good bonding. Looking back some sort of bristle brush and rubbing alcohol would work well.
 
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