Knifemaking Tuesdays Week 66 - Inlays Part 1 Media
Published: 11 years ago
In part 1 I show you how I made my carbon fiber and glow in the dark knife handle inlays.
I started by making an aluminum fixture on my Tormach cnc machine, then I used superglue and an accelerator to glue my sheet of carbon fiber down to the fixture. After some magical programming and CNC work I was able to make a few really sweet inlays! There's a lot of tricks to doing it this way, and I was able to show and explain a bunch of them in the video. It's a fine balance between using enough glue and not enough, and getting the tolerances just right so that the inlays will fit perfectly into the handles with no unsightly gaps.
Check out the next video, Week 67 - Inlays Part 2! In that vid I made some wood inlays and showed the gluing process in detail.
I started by making an aluminum fixture on my Tormach cnc machine, then I used superglue and an accelerator to glue my sheet of carbon fiber down to the fixture. After some magical programming and CNC work I was able to make a few really sweet inlays! There's a lot of tricks to doing it this way, and I was able to show and explain a bunch of them in the video. It's a fine balance between using enough glue and not enough, and getting the tolerances just right so that the inlays will fit perfectly into the handles with no unsightly gaps.
Check out the next video, Week 67 - Inlays Part 2! In that vid I made some wood inlays and showed the gluing process in detail.