Another option for the wood handle is to coat it in pine tar, like Riv does for the hatchet and axe handles. It gives the handle more grip than the more slippery coating of shellac.
Aaron Young The Dalles, OR On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Goshen Peter <uscpeter11...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like the idea of soaking and baking. I'm just thinking with my Shrek > like hands and shellac I would jam up the mechanism with shellac. Will soak > and bake in extra toaster oven so my wife doesn't wonder I "ruining" the > oven, haha. Love the list help, thanks yall. > On Aug 27, 2014 1:55 AM, "Joe Bunik" <jbu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 250° was a guesstimate, but a quick gahoogle shows lots of ideas out >> there for opinel mods e.g.: >> >> http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php/57733-Opinel-Owners-Do-you-have-a-trick >> >> =- Joe Bunik >> Walnut Creek, CA >> >> On 8/26/14, Johan Larsson <seven.nau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Brings back memories from when I was about 12-13 yo and made sides out >> of >> > beautiful laburnum wood <http://goo.gl/KND2x0> <http://gog.is/umbrella >> >for >> > my Swiss army knife. I worked on it for many hours, polishing and >> applying >> > several layers of shellac, only to loose it in the ski slope the first >> time >> > >> > I had it with me, a few days afterwards. :( >> > >> > Shellac works well though, I have used it on several wooden handles on >> my >> > tools, like files and screwdrivers, but I found that I prefer the >> slightly >> > grippier texture of a wax on such things. Shellac is clearly better for >> > protecting the wood and keeping it look good, the waxed handles have >> gotten >> > >> > quite dirty from black oily hands over time and are impossible to clean, >> > less that you sand them down. >> > >> > Johan Larsson, >> > Sweden >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 5:50:15 AM UTC+2, Peter M wrote: >> >> >> >> Got the Opinel kiddo for the kiddo but looking at it was thinking of >> >> hitting it with shellac to give it a little more water protection. >> Sand it >> >> >> >> and shellac? Just lay on a thin layer of shellac? use poly instead? >> Thanks >> >> >> >> all. Oh and if anyone else is becoming a hoarder of bandannas from the >> >> rotating colors at RBW you aren't alone. Thanks! >> >> >> > <http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/> >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
