How to give new life to a crippled handle

ziozeb

Well-Known Member
We often find blocks of wood full of fissures or lightly damaged ,so we didn’t use them at all and we leave them on the shelf .
This method is also suitable for broken and damaged handle you wish to fix.
The one I am using to show you my method was full of big and deep fissures .
Here below pictures before the process .
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From a piece of the same wood I scratch some sawdust .
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I mix it with epoxy resin , don’t use to much sawdust ,otherwise , you won’t be able to spread it in a easy way
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I try to make the glue filling as deeper as I can in the fissures ,reaching the outward .
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Here the result at the end of this step .Now It is a ugly result
I let the glue dry for a day .
Now I start removing the glue from the wood with 150 grit sand paper .
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grit 220
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grit 360
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and up to 800 grit
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Now I polish the handle with a cotton wheel and carnauba wax
And the work is done
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Nice tutorial,
If I may add to your post,

I find that with some woods, it works even better when I do two whole coats of the epoxy and sawdust with sanding down to 180-220 grit paper after the first coat
With one batch of stabilized Buckeye, I found that it makes more fissures happen after the first coat dries and the second coat catches anything I missed or created with the first coat.

Thanks
 
Great information! Thank you both for sharing. The transformation of the wood is very inspiring. I know I have 1 or 2 knives in the bucket that could benefit from this.
 
Nice tutorial,
If I may add to your post,

I find that with some woods, it works even better when I do two whole coats of the epoxy and sawdust with sanding down to 180-220 grit paper after the first coat
With one batch of stabilized Buckeye, I found that it makes more fissures happen after the first coat dries and the second coat catches anything I missed or created with the first coat.

Thanks


Thanks for the add
 
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