Stabilizing wood and making knife handles 

Thank you 🤝

Thank you Debbie! ♥🙌

Thank you Robert

Haha 😂Glad you liked it. The equipment setup to do the stabilizing and resin casting was not nearly that expensive actually. I think I spent around $1500 CAD

My setup is complete at a cost of less then $200. Bear in mind I'm using a 1.5 gallon glass fish bowl, a $75 vacuum pump. Works the same just not a lot of volume for wood. But it's just for me anyway.

@@samueljames9342 Thanks for the input my dude! I wish I would have constructed my own vacuum chamber. In all honesty my vacuum chamber does not have a lot of capacity for wood for how much cactus juice I have to use to properly submerge the wood. I have seen people with tall and narrow cylindrical chambers and I think that would have been the better route to go.

Thank you. I still have the blue one. I haven't decided what to make with it yet.

Thanks man! I've used up most of these handle blocks now but I am still holding onto #3 and #6. They were some of my favorites too and I am saving them for something special. I've been thinking about doing another video like this and making a new batch of handles as well.

Thanks Dave! I appreciate it man! 👊

@@DaveMakesKnives Your more than welcome mate credit were credits due.

Thank you. I appreciate it 🙏

Yes, that is true! I've done it a few times! Thanks for watching 👊

Thanks for watching! I appreciate the comment 👊 Please let me know how your stabilizing goes. And don't hesitate to reach out if I can help you out!

@@DaveMakesKnives 1 question what kind of resin should iget to cast with ? i have alot of cut off material would make alot of handles and the dyes you use thank you can you provide a link where to buy?

@@Anderson-HandForged The resin I used the brand is called Magic Resin. It is manufactured in Canada and I live in Canada so I went with that brand because it was inexpensive for me. This resin was marketed as "arts and crafts" resin. Some of the more premium brands I have seen guys use on RU-vid are Alumilite and TotalBoat. The resin I used has a working time of around 1 hour which was sufficient time to let the air bubbles rise. As far as the full technique I hope the video helped demonstrate that (using the temperature gun to monitor the resin temperature). Here is a link for some of the mica powder pigment I used in the video. Some of the mica powder in the video was sent to me by Magic Resin when I ordered my resin from them. www.amazon.ca/Mica-Powder-Coloring-Pigments-Pigment/dp/B08N6KK16M/ref=sr_1_6?crid=3NEK2Q7ST19VO&keywords=mica+powder+pigment&qid=1656289901&sprefix=mica+powder+pigment%2Caps%2C116&sr=8-6 I also used some liquid dye and here is a link for that too. I shopped for this stuff on amazon and I basically just looked in the item description to make sure it can be used with resin. Hope this helps! www.amazon.ca/Magicfly-Translucent-Colorant-Concentrated-Decoration/dp/B088361DYN/ref=sr_1_27?crid=33T2KAJT1JWPR&keywords=liquid+resin+pigment&qid=1656290021&sprefix=liquid+resin+pigment%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-27

I can't say for sure if it needs to be stabilized. I have never worked with that kind of wood and I am by no means an expert on this subject so I hope I can give some proper advice. If the wood feels like it is not very dense, like there are lots of pores or holes in the wood, then I would highly recommend stabilizing.

Thanks for watching. To dye the wood, that would have to be done during the stabilizing process. There are dyes you can get to add to the cactus juice and then the wood will take the color when it is in the vacuum chamber. I haven't tried this yet but I believe this is how it's done. If you try to dye the wood after the stabilizing resin is cured, the dye will not penetrate the wood.

It's been a while since I made this video so I can't remember completely. But I would bet money that my hands were sticky and discolored for a week afterwards 😆 I try to wear gloves most of the time these days but sometimes I get ahead of myself and mix the resin before I have everything prepped and the end result is some nasty looking fingers

I think I did them around 45-50 psi. Check what your pressure pot is rated for and make sure not to exceed that number. Thanks for watching. 🤝

In this video I made the molds. Yes they are reusable. Thanks for watching. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YTxNzCxJAFU.html

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Thanks Mark!

If I got more feedback like that I'd consider it but you are the first one.

Thanks!

The resin I use is stuff I get locally in Canada called Magic Resin. Thanks for watching!

Thank you!!

I probably just searched on google. I can't remember!

Thank you 😁

Thank you!

Thank you, I appreciate it! The transparent red one got used for making the bread knife which I made a video for. The copper colored one I am afraid to say got ruined during a project. I think it was the pocket knife video that I made. I am very much considering making another resin casting video soon!

Glad you liked it!

Beauty mark 😂

Thank you. I'm sure one day I'll have an online shop and sell my knives and handles.

Thanks 😎

Thanks a lot! I appreciate it 👊

Thank you. I'm not sure, I am having trouble picturing your vacuum vessel. Have you thought about making a video to demonstrate your idea?

@@DaveMakesKnives No but it would be a good idea.

Hey thanks buddy

Thank you 🙏

Thank you. By the way, I am doing a knife give-away to celebrate reaching 1000 subscribers. Check out my most recent video as well as my most recent Shorts video to see how to enter the draw!

Thank you. From all the videos I watched I know there are schools of thought that agree and disagree with wrapping them. For the sake of having less to scrape out of the burl I decided not to wrap them this time. The next attempt I will individually wrap the pieces when curing them to see the difference.