How to: Make Home-Made Micarta

[timmydafool]

epoxy resin or polyester resin? or will either do?

[STREETRAT211]

could you use fabric and paper both?

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@STREETRAT211 of course

[Knots4Knives]

Great video. I am amazed at how simple the process looks. I can't wait to try it myself.

[scrapheapchallange]

if you only coat every other layer you will not use as much resin, and when you come to clamp the layers you will not get the epoxy resin all over the floor.

[scrapheapchallange]

the ratio of resin to harderner is important. if you do not put enough harderner in then it will not cure properly and you will not get a hard resin finish. the ammount of resin you use dose not change the speed of the setting of the resin. you can buy slow or fast set resin, if theres not enough time for you to complete this task then you can use a slow set combination.

[spydercofan99]

Very nice vid!!! thanks for making it !!! i subbed

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@spydercofan99 thank you and your very welcome!!!! glad you enjoyed!!

[TheDishD]

bro do you know that if you goggle how to make micarta and then look under vids , this video is like 3rd on the list!!! well done brother =]

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@TheDishD haha awsome!!! :D, did not know that :), thanks for letting me know DishY!!

[Mortaxe]

Thanks for the reply, I was just curious if it could be used for anything else. Keep up the great videos!

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@Mortaxe Your welcome :), glad i could help!!! thank you for the support!!

[Mortaxe]

Hi, I was wondering if you could collect and recycle that resin that pours out when the whole piece is in the clamps? Or does it become unusable? Thanks for your time

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@Mortaxe it becomes unsuable because it was mixed with hardner, and will harden qucikly thus making is unusuable. :)

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@Auslander999 I use the micarta for handle material for my knives :), its easy to make and its a great lightwiegh tough handle material!!

[katabunga]

That is sooo simple and soooo cool! I ca't wait to see the final product!

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@katabunga haha thanks Kat!!!! :), you might see a final product once its on a new knife made by me, but for now i can't do anything!!!! I had an accident in the garage... i cut my finger up pretty bad!!

[hatsan38]

naprawde swietne how to do !! dzieki za pokazanie ! mysle ze mi sie to w przyszlosci napewno przyda !!

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@hatsan38 haha dziękuje :), no napweno się przyda ;).

[Schmidt54]

can this be done with other substances, like "Isoflex"? Or does it have to be resin?

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@Schmidt54 I suggest resin, you can do it with epoxy too, but it gets too hard and you use WAY too much of it, plus resin is cheap ;).

[pmprydr]

very cool idea bro

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@pmprydr thanks! :)

[Lookinformemarbles]

Sweet! Dig the old vice and work bench!!

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@Lookinformemarbles the old vise got busted unfortunetly.... 50+ years on that beauty!!! finally kicked the bucket... mostly because of the dripping resin lol :D.

[MadBadVoodo]

★★★★★

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@MadBadVoodo thanks MB

[wolfbrother2501]

how thin was it bro?? cos im thinking it might be good for a folder kind of like the byrd raven/crow that have really thin scales

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@wolfbrother2501 it was very this actually, but i'll find some use for it :).

[wolfbrother2501]

@TheLazySpoiledKitty maybe try to shape it like a pendant and etch your gf's name into it??

[ElectrikHellfire]

Excellent! Thanks for the info.

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@ElectrikHellfire No problem!, thanks :)

[0hbeast]

great vid good to know...subbed ya

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@0hbeast glad it helped you out :), and thanks for doing so ;).

[Valerieannleeh]

excellent video! I'd love to know what color it came out as, I see you used blue and orange.

Thanks for sharring! :D

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@Valerieannleeh haha it turned out THIN but very cool :), i'll try to put up a video of how it looks like :)

[ER720]

sweet vid bro .. i favorited this one !!!

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@ER720 thanks man!!! :D

[bigbubba5037]

Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing!

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@bigbubba5037 thanks Bubba!!

[BuffaloWarrior7]

Careful with the epoxy in the threads of that vise, hard to get it out :(

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@BuffaloWarrior7 too late lol :(, but no big deal that vise was more that 50 years old!!! Time for a replacement anyways :)

[beaker126]

Right on man, thanks for sharing. =)

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@beaker126 your welcome :), thanks for watching!!

[bonham771]

i wish i could make micarta my dad said i cant because he wont let me use the glue

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@bonham771 its not glue its resin ;)

[THRtactical]

hey man, thats awesome! can u put up a video showing us the final product? even if it doesnt work id love to see what the paper micarta looks like and if something went wrong talk about what you did and how you can prevent it. thanks man, awesome vid!

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@THRtactical I'll try to put up a video of how it turned out :), it turned out quite thin though!! but good :).

[fredhart]

I've learned a lot, thank you!!!

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@fredhart your very welcome!!!!!

[ironmonkeyz]

Dude that's awesome! thanks I was wondering how to make it but didn't ask. I thought it must be way more involved than that. That's awesome I might just have to make some.

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@ironmonkeyz you should definetly try to make some :), its easy and fun!!

[SkylarrL]

"cuttened in half" hahaha. it's funny, after i've been watching gavkoo's videos it's almost like you don't even have an accent man :P great job though, i already knew how to do this but it was nice seeing a video where someone explained it really well. i bet this will help a lot of people. :)

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@SkylarrL lol thanks man!!!! and yeah this is easy but i hope this will help someone out :).

[chainheart3]

great tutorial :)

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@chainheart3 thanks man!!!!

[4wdHuntFish]

can u show us how that finishes up? haha im curios about the paper

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@4wdHuntFish yes i'll try to show it!!!

[Hungerth]

would love to see how this batch turned out

thanks for the video!

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@Hungerth i'll try to show it in a recent video.

[4wdHuntFish]

haha when the resin cap broke! great instructional vid bro

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@4wdHuntFish lol yeah :D.

[MrRRSP]

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[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@MrRRSP thank you!

[RedGladius]

Hah! I was planning on putting my video on this up! Mine is less of a "how to" and more of just showing what we did! haha nice video man! That stuff is gonna look amazing!

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@RedGladius lol :D i got to it first :P, but seriously i guess great minds think alike :) and it goes look amazing!!! but thin!! i should of used more paper.. grrr.... maybe next time :) but i'll put this batch to use :).

[RedGladius]

@TheLazySpoiledKitty haha maybe make them into scales to keep an already thick knife relatively thin, but amazing! Like, if you used 3/16th inch thick steel, these scales may look good!

[MichiganTNP]

very sweet

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@MichiganTNP thanks Schmoo!

[TheJebus88]

GOOD JOB!!

[TheLazySpoiledKitty]

@TheJebus88 thanks