Making Paper Micarta

.. For knife liners and scales. End December I made a bunch paper micarta in different colours. I used paper, epoxy and a bit of acetone to thin it down. The micarta stock for liners is made with 2 to 4 layers of paper. The thicker micarta sheets for scales are made with 20 to 30 layers of paper. I used some old left over epoxy that is veeeery slow curing. It had to be thinned down a little bit because of the cold weather, this way it wets the paper a lot better. The different layers of paper micarta are separated with cling film and sandwiched between to MDF boards and lots of clamps. 24 hours later I cracked them apart and cleaned up the edges with a utility knife. This was easily done because the epoxy was still a little bit soft.

This was very easy to do, the same process works for fabric micarta like canvas micarta, blue jeans micarta,... possibilies are endless. This paper micarta came out nice and I'll be using it in a near future knife project.

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