Leather IH Patches (Project)

[Matt]

That looks rad af.

[Daniel San]

@Desperado213
looks awesome
but I have no idea how you made it

[SiRockxx]

@Desperado213 That looks great man. Nice idea using the leather patches for a slip.

[mikebarhoot]

dammit! i was suppose to send someone some denim for same purpose. forgot and now i cant find the correspondence w address.

came out great.

[Desperado213]

@mikebarhoot said in Leather IH Patches:

dammit! i was suppose to send someone some denim for same purpose. forgot and now i cant find the correspondence w address.

came out great.

Thank you! It made some nice micarta. I did 4 layers but could have gotten away with 3. The denim being thick helps out.

[RoxRocks86]

Sounds like a cool project! Would love to see the process of how you went about turning 21oz into micarta and if you get your hands on some patches how you make a slip

[Desperado213]

@RoxRocks86 said in Leather IH Patches:

Sounds like a cool project! Would love to see the process of how you went about turning 21oz into micarta and if you get your hands on some patches how you make a slip

I should have taken some pictures during the build but I always forget. All you have to do to make the micarta is buy some clear epoxy, I used Total Boat high performance, and then have 2 flat surfaces to sandwich the material, I used 2 pieced of thick glass I had. Soak each piece of denim in the epoxy then lay it on parchment paper on the glass and use a roller or squeegee to get the excess epoxy out. Once the layer looks wet, apply the next layer, and so on. Once you have all your layers stacked, roll out the excess epoxy and then lay the second flat surface on top with parchment paper and load on a bunch of weights. I put about 100lbs on the top plate. You could also used wood clamps instead of weights. After 24 hours its hard and ready to go.

[RoxRocks86]

Didn’t realize it was quite the process! Great job on your knife and thank you for the explanation @Desperado213 . It’s gotten me intrigued to the point i started watching a few vids of micarta on yt

[meatmarketdenim1]

@Desperado213
Super cool idea, looks rad as hell man

[Giles]

Here was ours.....

https://forum.ironheart.co.uk/topic/2800/ihk-the-21oz-knife?_=1745408983173

[Desperado213]

@Giles Thats awesome! I'm surprised I've never seen that before.

[Giles]

I have one I use all the time. Holds an edge like nobody's business....

[endo]

time for restock!

[SKT]

@Giles umm…can this make a comeback?!

[Mizmazzle]

@Giles
Yet another item before my time to lust over!

[goosehd]

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Thank you.

[SKT]

@Giles any idea how many of these IH knives are out there?

[mclaincausey]

Really awesome project. Love that handle.

And now I’m kicking myself for sleeping on the IH knife.

[SKT]

@mclaincausey right? Maybe we could kindly ask @Desperado213 to make 20-30 more (I’m kidding…mostly)

[Giles]

Maybe 10 or so in total. I probably only bought a max of 5 over from Japan. They were fearfully expensive.