Forged integrals with my own Impregg material

[TheoRockNazz]

So I am experimenting with this new handle material I made up that I call Impregg. It's sanitized and crushed egg shell, mica powder, and G-Flex epoxy. It's got some really neat depth to it, you can see through the gaps between shells to the swirls of mica powder inside. The tang is left rough and the material is "cast" directly onto it. I feel it will work really well for my integrals especially.
Please let me know what you think, I plan on using it in a little upcoming series.

Hand forged S7 high carbon steel camp knife with integral guard. Impregg handle and wenge insert. This knife features a forged thumb rest that gives you wonderful control over the blade for most tasks.

 

Hand forged W2 high carbon steel camp knife with integral finger rest. Impregg handle and 3D printed cast bronze medallion with my logo incorporated.

 

Please let me know what yall think!

Theo

[Ryan Merton]

Pretty cool. I'm curious, how does the cost of all that epoxy stack up against more conventional materials?

[dragoncutlery]

if your worried about the cost your missing the point of being able to make unique material when it is called for

[Robert D.]

Those are slick, Those scales are for sure unique...

[Connor J. Myers-Norton]

How do they hold up? No splitting from the tang, exposed eggshells crumbling?

[TheoRockNazz]

Thank you guys!

You can buy Gflex in two 16oz tubes for roughly $90. I've only done back of the envelope math on this, but for my process I get about 30 handles out of that... so it's more affordable than a lot of other matherials

[Ryan Merton]

Nice!

 

 

if your worried about the cost your missing the point of being able to make unique material when it is called for

I am not concerned about cost; as I said, I was curious.