Thread: What are you working on?

Thanks Roy, I was wondering the same.
That would be terrible!

Had to stop, taking my daughter out to bbq.
Will get some work done tomorrow.

Fiberglass liner? Something else? I've got limited supplies.
Could order.

I've never done any scales with liners--Fellow Members How About Some Help!

Outbacks fiberglass layers would work well. And it very thin.

Hands down the thinnest liner is the style outback mike does. You can get g-10 around 1/32 of an inch, thinner if you shop around.

Yes I think you guys are right. 3/4oz. Fiberglass.
Gotta order it online, shopped around and nothing in the area.
Actually I was quite surprised to learn that there's also no woodworking shop in the Charleston area either.
I dyed some scales for the first time last night, used black beard dye.
Also purchased some powdered dye to experiment with.
The dye was brown in color, thought I purchase the wrong one, very strange, it works very well! Black as it gets!

I know what ya mean Mike. My first dye job was also brown in color. But it turned black after some time.

Make sure you get marine resin epoxy, not bondo for your fiberglass liners mike.
Want to, must avoid styrene in the reaction or they will crack in time.
Most automotive mixes have styrene, marine ones don’t.
Styrene makes the cure never stop hardening. Ergo, they will be become brittle and crack again, in a few years, regardless of care.
Good luck!

My current project is a black/white pair of big old Wade and Butchers, one a Celebrated Hollow Ground, and the other a Diamond Edge. I just finished one in black horn with brass dome collars, and a camel-bone wedge lined with .010 brass sheet. The other one is its mirror image, and will be scaled in Austin's camel bone with a brass-lined horn wedge-so opposites. Sorry no pics-I get in the zone in my shop and forget, just too lazy, whatever. I'll post pics when I'm finished.

Oh, and these are my 1st lined wedges (after some experimentation and cussing!).

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Make sure you get marine resin epoxy, not bondo for your fiberglass liners ...snip...they will be become brittle and crack again, in a few years, regardless of care.
Good luck!

Thanks Mike, lots of epoxy down at the boat yard, though not the 3/4oz glass, never use that lightweight stuff.
I'll remember that about the poly-something-styrene (forgot the long name). Good to know.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

My...snip...
Oh, and these are my 1st lined wedges (after some experimentation and cussing!).

Looking forward to seeing those wedges!
I need to make a couple wedges, and am debating what to do. Every time I tell myself just do something simple to get it done.. Then I think "but I want to make a sandwich!".
Also have some other non-sandwich "composite" wedges in mind.

One thing I've been thinking about today is how to give the wedge more width to show off a cool wedge, while keeping the correct taper angle, BUT not so that the blade rests too deep down into the scales.
I've got an idea for that (not the vertical protrusion seen on some old celluloid scales). The idea is taunting me.

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