Thread: Pinnless scales?

Perfect. See Pens are my background so that's why I was comfortable with the CA. But I'll grab some epoxy instead.

A little off topic maybe, maybe not. I have only made one razor so far, so take it with a grain of salt. Design has a lot to do with how well a glue(epoxy) will hold. On some hidden tang knives I don't put a pin, but I do make mechanical locks, under cuts in the tang to key it in so that even if you coated the tang with release agent it wouldn't turn loose. For full tang knives I pin and peen the pins, but I also use large holes to lighten weight and drill shallow holes at an angle in the underside of the scales to make for a mechanical epoxy rivet through the tang holes.

If I was to do a wedge without a pin I'd likely drill a few 1/16" holes about a 16th deep at an angle on the scales and put a hole in the middle of the wedge, that way when the epoxy is set up and all the way through it'll act like it's cast in place and lock everything.

As an aside, I prefer Acraglass epoxy, it's very stable and has been around for something like 60 years without any major issues. I avoid the cheap two part epoxies, especially the 5 minute variety.

At the end of the day however, I mostly consider epoxy to be a moister sealant and don't rely on it for holding power except for certain designs.

Almost forgot, epoxy has to have a certain level of thickness to hold anything. Squeeze it out and it won't hold much of anything. That's why a lot of knife makers put a hollow grind down the middle of a full tang handle, makes the edges look tight while giving some thickness to the epoxy in the middle. Same idea with lighting holes.

actually they are not pinless. i had one, it has pins inside of scales and not pinned until outside of scales. you take pins fix it on one scale with a hammer, once it's in 1 or 2 mm (inside of scale) you leave it, than you take the blade put it on the pin you just fixed and you put other scale on the pin and you use your hammer to fix it inside until the pin is in 1 or 2 mm deep in second scale (always inside the scale, at this time you need to put some scotchs external side) .