Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by Gasman

Yes, Mike. I hope it holds as the first coating didnt hold long. But after pinned it should be fine. Maybe epoxy would have been better?

Somewhere there is a thread on lining scales and iirc there is a post in it about drilling some holes in the liner to give the epoxy something to hold on to other than a smooth surface. OTH I'm old and I may be wrong about that.

Bob

OK, not that old after all https://sharprazorpalace.com/worksho...-liners-2.html post #18 by Glen.

Bob

Thanks Bob. I guess i forgot all about that. Next time! As long as this set holds up i will leave it be, but...

MikeT would score the liner with low grit paper, for a mechanical bond.

Originally Posted by Gasman

...No band saw is needed for making scales. Sure it makes it easier but a coping saw will do the job. Then a belt sander and elbow grease and your set...

Yeah, you're not cutting this with a coping saw though. Hell, it smokes a 10' carbide table saw blade. I don't even think you could cut it with a coping saw very easily once you got it cut down to 1/8" planks. This old southern live oak skeleton (probably been standing dead for 150 years) is so hard you'd look like Billy Gibbons by the time you got through a piece of it with a coping saw.

P.S. to that. I use a band saw to cut the blanks out of the log because cutting it with a table saw is a little hairy. It makes me tight in the jaw being that close to the blade with no guard and it smoking, bogging and bucking like that. I've known people that lost fingers to a table saw and I know I don't want to be one of them. I just run it through the band saw and go at a snail's pace. Thats probably why my band saw is broken because it's a chore to do that also.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

P.S. to that. I use a band saw to cut the blanks out of the log because cutting it with a table saw is a little hairy. It makes me tight in the jaw being that close to the blade with no guard and it smoking, bogging and bucking like that. I've known people that lost fingers to a table saw and I know I don't want to be one of them. I just run it through the band saw and go at a snail's pace. Thats probably why my band saw is broken because it's a chore to do that also.

Very good advice! For anyone who thinks they can react in time to prevent a table saw from eating your fingers, this is probably worth a look. It sure got my attention... hang in there with it - the hairy bit starts around 2:30 in.

The whole reason I don't like table saws.!

Originally Posted by outback

MikeT would score the liner with low grit paper, for a mechanical bond.

Where hell IS MikeT?

Don't know, haven't heard from him in quite a while. (Aug11) Have his phone #, I shall send a hollergram, been curious myself.

Message sent...we shall see.!

Like u, I bought a few razors from him, and now he's gone again. .