If you sand them to absurdly high grit, the stabilized and resin stuff comes out looking amazing. I used to stop at 1200 grit, and couldn't figure out how people made them shine. Then I sanded some up to 5000 grit, and the difference was incredible.
No not mosaic pins.
Epoxy will keep them from moving, as there was a large amount of space in tang around pins and I scratch up pins with rough sandpaper so you get a bit of epoxy between pins and timber
The way a mule tang is leaves a great bond for epoxy with all the holes. I fill all of them up with epoxy and not just a coat on each side of the scales.
Coat scale - place on blade - fill holes and coat scale and clamp. Epoxy is cheap and the more the merrier in my book. :D
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I've taken to using corby bolts in addition to mosaic pins, when I use mosaic pins. I have never had a problem with an epoxied mosaic pin moving at all--I'm just paranoid.
Here's a handle I put on a Brisa blank that way--with two corby bolts to hold things together around the mosaic pin.
I've taken to using corby bolts in addition to mosaic pins, when I use mosaic pins. I have never had a problem with an epoxied mosaic pin moving at all--I'm just paranoid.
Here's a handle I put on a Brisa blank that way--with two corby bolts to hold things together around the mosaic pin.
I have been cleaning out my garage getting ready to move and dug up some very nice birds eye maple that I forgot I had. As soon as I saw it I thought of this thread and it wasn't long before I stopped cleaning the garage and started making some sawdust.
I was able to get them roughed out, drilled for pins, and epoxied before it got too late. I also roughed out some ironwood scales for another Mule so I was able to get two blades glued up tonight.
I used brass pins on both and am interested to see the contrast between the pins on the dark wood and the light maple. The corbies in the pics with the ironwood were just for holding the scales in place while I roughed them out a bit
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I have been cleaning out my garage getting ready to move and dug up some very nice birds eye maple that I forgot I had. As soon as I saw it I thought of this thread and it wasn't long before I stopped cleaning the garage and started making some sawdust.
I was able to get them roughed out, drilled for pins, and epoxied before it got too late. I also roughed out some ironwood scales for another Mule so I was able to get two blades glued up tonight.
I used brass pins on both and am interested to see the contrast between the pins on the dark wood and the light maple. The corbies in the pics with the ironwood were just for holding the scales in place while I roughed them out a bit
Did you have the wood stabilized first? I got the impression that it was fairly important to do.