Acra-Glas repairs for bone handles

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Wow, that came out pretty nice!
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As everyone says...the color matching is the hard part...just tried this one, on an old Western that was broken...
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Retention holes and painters tape to keep stuff away from where I don't want it.

This bone had shades of green throughout...I picked up some Mica powers that are made for shading acrylics. I tried marbling the Acraglas, to break up the single tone.
Jigged with a small round diamond bur...it left it just rough enough, that I took a toothpick, broke it in half and burnished some darker shoe polish, in the depths of the jigging.

Not perfect...looks a little better in hand...than blown up in pictures. I think it made it a little better for EDC.
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Great looking EDC!
Nice job. ::tu::
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Just ordered some Acraglas from Amazon.
Gonna give it a try.
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Looks great Doc. I have done 4 or 5 now and am still working to perfect the technique. It works great for EDC knives that you can buy cheap because they have a chunk missing.
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Do you guys use a dremel for jigging?
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edge213 wrote:Do you guys use a dremel for jigging?
I use a Dremel with a small ball end cutter for jigging.
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I used a dremel, with a small round, diamond bur. I have some small discs, too. I was just trying to stay approximately the size of the existing marks.
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The Acra-Glas in the green box is a lot easier to mix and work with.It's about like butter and the red is liquid.
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Is it odd that I am sitting here wishing I had a knife with a broken bone handle?
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SteelMyHeart85420 wrote:Is it odd that I am sitting here wishing I had a knife with a broken bone handle?
Not at all.

Remember knife repairing is twice as addictive as knife collecting! ::nod::
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fitzroe wrote:The Acra-Glas in the green box is a lot easier to mix and work with.It's about like butter and the red is liquid.
I just ordered the red because that's what was in the OP.
What are other opinions....red vs green?
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I have a couple of MOP handled pen knives with chips or chunks missing. I wonder if Acra-Glas could be mixed with some kind of pearl like powder to fix them. Anyone ever tried that?
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The Red will probably be best for that job. A lot easier to get in those tiny holes he drilled.That's a neat way to measure the the portions.
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You guys have impressed me with the repairs you're posting. I'm going to order me some and give it a try. Thanks!
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Nothing will repair broken pearl, except replacing the pearl. You can do it-but the results will be horrible.
I use clear polyester casting resin from Hobby Lobby. It works very well.
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just bob wrote:You guys have impressed me with the repairs you're posting. I'm going to order me some and give it a try. Thanks!
That was the whole point in my original post, get others to try repairing broken bone on EDC knives instead of rehandling or tossing them. SUCCESS !!!
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Well played, sir ::tu::
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One revision...over my previously posted repair...
In hand, it looked pretty good. It seemed to me, that the limiting factor, was the "dullness" of the Acraglas. Today I put a thin coat of clear fingernail polish, over the Acraglas. It gave it a shine that brought it closer to the sheen of the bone. In short, I thought it was a worthy addition, to this repair. In hand, it looks pretty good.

Before glaze, not too bad:
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After glaze to Acraglas, better shine and blends in better:
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Those of you who have tried the Acraglas like I showed in the OP for repairing bone may have had this happen. Yesterday when I got out my Acraglas kit, I opened the container of resin to find that it has changed from the clear liquid which it was into kind of a white paste. I stuck a popsicle stick in and tried to stir it, but it was too solid. So I thought before I toss it I will call Brownells customer service number and see if there is a solvent that can be added to it and bring it back to life. I talked to the lady and explained the situation, and she told me to either put the tub in a hot water bath or put it in the microwave for a few seconds (with the metal lid removed) and the heat would fix the problem, like one would do with honey that had turned white and set up. She was right, I put it in the microwave for 10 seconds and it turned back into a clear liquid. Now to fix that old jack with the broken bone.
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Good to know!
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Lesson learned! Use Acra Glas and not hardware store epoxy! I mixed it with sanding dust from another project and didn't put enough in the epox to match. Also the epoxy doesn't buff up like Acra Glas does. I jigged it with a dremel, used a toothpick to color it and it bled into the epoxy...so I covered it with clear nail polish and did it again. Then another nail polish coat and when it dried I sanded it off so the polish will protect the colored jigging. The knife is. a Chinese Winchester so it was great to practice on. It looks better than it did!
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Nice job! ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu::
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You can get various colors of pearlizing powder to add to clear resins that may make a decent patch for MOP. I have no first hand experience with it at this point but the potential seems to be there
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I doubt anything will work well with pearl.
Mother Nature made it the way it is, and I have seen nothing that will match it.
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