cultured marble? can it be used for handles and is it durable enough?
cultured marble? can it be used for handles and is it durable enough?
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What is cultured marble?
In layman's terms, cultured marble is a mixture of fiberglass resin and crushed limestone. A more technical description is as follows: Cultured marble belongs to the family of cast polymers. Cast polymers are a mixture of an unsaturated polyester resin, highly filled with inorganic particulates and pigments. Fillers used are engineered calcium carbonates (for cultured marble), aluminum tri-hydrate (for cultured onyx) and aluminum tri-hydrate with a suspension of specialty formulated color chips (for cultured granite.)
Almost anything can be used for knife handles. As for the stability, shrinkage, durability, etc., I can't help you there. Seems to me it would be as good or better than reconstituted stone... just don't do a lot of 'whacking' with the knife. Just my 2 cents worth of wisdom.
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It certainly can be used but it will not take any real hard use.
It can and will crack if dropped on a hard surface.
Mike
Look here for a nice selection of stone like handle material: Masecraft Supply - Recon Stone
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We stock a lot of the Stuff like Corean and it's Copies.
We rarely get requests for it.
Mike
What Mike says. Not very durable. Will surely crack if dropped or knocked.Originally Posted by Mike Stewart
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well that answered that question pretty fast.. yeah corean I have heard of I actually just gave Butch some to play with. but I came across 2 slabs of cultured marble if I wanted them. so I was trying to thinkk of what to do with it..
thanks guys
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If its attractive you could use it for spacer material.
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it is white, they make window sill inserts from them. probably 1/4" thick
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I still think that for a light Duty knife it is Good Stuff.
It does - indeed-make gret spacer material.
Mike
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