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...
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.
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.
Nice job.
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Just ordered some Acraglas from Amazon.
Gonna give it a try.
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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I use a Dremel with a small ball end cutter for jigging.edge213 wrote:Do you guys use a dremel 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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Not at all.SteelMyHeart85420 wrote:Is it odd that I am sitting here wishing I had a knife with a broken bone handle?
Remember knife repairing is twice as addictive as knife collecting!
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I just ordered the red because that's what was in the OP.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.
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.
I use clear polyester casting resin from Hobby Lobby. It works very well.
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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 !!!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!
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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: After glaze to Acraglas, better shine and blends in better:
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: 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!
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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.
Mother Nature made it the way it is, and I have seen nothing that will match it.
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Falcon/AKC/AGA Campolin
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