Homemade Patterned Micarta

This is my method for making patterned micarta. Hope you enjoy!

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Education

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• micarta
• homemade
• bladesmith
• knife
• maker
• polyester
• resin
• fiberglass
• cloth
• ladder
• pattern
• jig
• steel
• hammer
• anvil

[AxisTheHunter]

woah this looks nice

[ArtistBlade1972]

@AxisTheHunter Thanks.

[Ksimo13]

Very cool pattern man. How many fabric layers do you think you used?

[ArtistBlade1972]

@Ksimo13 No idea :) I just stack it until it looks thick enough. About 5/8" thick will get you 1/4" or so scales with this patterning method. I've done tons of different patterns though. You can just play with it randomly and come up with cool designs. Any of the incised damascus patterns you can do with this micarta as well as twists. Have fun with it man.

[nitrojunkie11]

Nice!!!!

[ArtistBlade1972]

@nitrojunkie11 Thanks man.

[nitrojunkie11]

@evcrawfish Sounds like you may have got some bad hardener man. It happened to me a while ago, you could almost add the whole tube of hardener and it would still stay gummy. When I bought new stuff it worked great.

[ArtistBlade1972]

@evcrawfish No problem man. Any hardener at all will make it harden, it's just a question of how long it'll take.

[evcrawfish]

@ArtistBlade1972 thank you, i have had it in the press for about 14 or 15 hours, but i don't think i got enough hardner or i did not get it mixed enough. i'm going to go and pull it out of the press and see what it looks like.

thank you for the assistance

[ArtistBlade1972]

@evcrawfish Depends on how much hardener you put in it, but a couple of hrs should be fine.