Shiny New Bush Blade

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I have just finished knife number three. Blade supplied by Savagewolfrm, home made Micarta paper liners (red), olive drab Micarta scales and black high impact liners (supplied by Wood and Knife Supplies.
End of last week I received my shiny new blank, from Rick (savagewolfrm), and started work on the Micarta liners and getting the rest of the bits together.

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On Monday I bought the aluminium tube and extra epoxy.

Tuesday saw the arrival of the other components, courtesy of Wood and Knife.

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I then proceeded with bonding the liners to the scales.

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While they were curing, I knocked up some mosaic pins, plus some graphite epoxy filled pins (I had my doubts about the mosaics working out, and they didn't, so used the others :))

Today the liners had cured, the pins were ready, and the day was young, so got on with drilling and "sticking" he lot together.

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This afternoon the epoxy had set, all that was left to do was, shape it and smooth it.

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And the finished article.

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Thanks Al, I shall be bringing it to Dartmoor, so you can sharpen it ;).

@demographic. I just used fibreglass resin. It seems the most commonly used by others, and it's easy to get hold of. Halfords are selling the 500ml for £6.50 (or there abouts) which isn't too bad.
 
Latest update...

Camo Kydex has been delayed too long, so went with black. Well on the way with the other two blades I was making, while waiting for the eyelets

Sheath is now complete...

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Sorry for the fuzzy last pic.

New jig put to work again...

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And two blades ready for hardening...

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what do you use for a guide/liner in the sheath I thought about using bottle plastic but It does,nt last or hold shape ?

I haven't gone with a liner in this one. I just put a layer of duct tape on either side of the blade. This gives the blade that little more room to slide in and out.
I've seen a guy on instructables using a length of PVC pipe, also any ABS plastic (like car interior plastic) can be used, so a quick visit to the scrapyard to find a glovebox lid can help :)
 

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