How to give new life to a crippled handle

[ziozeb]

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 .

From a piece of the same wood I scratch some sawdust .

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

I try to make the glue filling as deeper as I can in the fissures ,reaching the outward .

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 .

grit 220

grit 360

and up to 800 grit

Now I polish the handle with a cotton wheel and carnauba wax
And the work is done

 

[Calvin Robinson]

Denis,
Thank you for this tutorial. I have heard of this method but have never seen it demonstrated.

 

[rhinoknives]

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

 

[TacticallySharp]

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.

 

[ziozeb]

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

 

[Lourival]

Nice tutorial! Thanks a lot for sharing with us.
regards from Brazil,
Lourival

 

[rhinoknives]

Nice tutorial! Thanks a lot for sharing with us.
regards from Brazil,
Lourival

Lourval,
Welcome to Knife Dogs.
. Kindly Introduce yourself in the Introduction forum so we can meet with you.

 

[BonhamBlades]

I will try this this coming week end. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Lagrange]

Thanks for sharing, quite interesting!

 

[Bruce Bump]

Wow that certainly came out nice. You're right I would have tossed that piece. Good shop tip.