I received an unfinished tanto knife from Joey Atilano to see what I can do to complete it. Joey is a great guy and he makes some amazing knives and videos. If you haven’t seen his channel I highly suggest you check him out: / lucasberg
To finish this knife I want to first make a pair of custom micarta handle scales. I’m using clear epoxy resin for this so that the pattern doesn’t become faded and discolored by the resin. I’m just going to measure out the resin and hardener and mix together thoroughly. I’ve made micarta from cotton fabric before, but I never tried paper so this will be a first for me. I decided on black and yellow for the colors.
I cut out a rough size I’ll need for the handle scales and I ground a piece of the discarded end to see how the pattern will look. I kind of messed up when clamping the paper together. I put too much pressure on one side, resulting in a tapered handle scale. I plan to correct this by taking two pieces and gluing them together so that the tapered ends are on opposite sides.
Now the scales are complete and we can move on to fitting them to the knife. I drilled out the holes for the pins and countersunk them. Next, the angle grinder will be used to hog off the majority of the material. Now I’m going to get it much closer to the steel using my belt grinder. Then I’ll finish it up with a file. I’m partially drilling holes all throughout the handle to drop some of the weight and help the handle glue to the steel. To make this micarta pop and to help with the grip, I’m texturing the handle. This was the first time attempting this so please cut me some slack when you see the two sides don’t mirror each other.
Now for the most time consuming and finicky part - hand sanding. I tried two different methods: on one side i progress the grits starting at 60 and working my way higher. Then on the other side I started at 400 then worked my way higher. They took about the same amount of time but the 400 grit definitely went through a lot more sandpaper. I don't even want to tell you how much time this polishing took me. I’ll give you a hint - somewhere between 6-12 hours of work. The fastest way would be to take it to the grinder but I didn’t want to mess up Joey’s work. I definitely bit off more than I can chew to try to get a mirror polish on this blade. I ended up going to 2000 grit and then to the buffer.
The last step of finishing this knife is sharpening. I know the mirror polish isn’t perfect but I put this knife off for too long and I wanted to show Joey how it came out. Again thank you for this knife and to anyone watching this please check out Joey Atilano on KZitem. He makes some monster knives that you just have to see.
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