Bowling pajama micarta

my bowling pajamas

I had a pair of bowling pajamas that were beloved to me. This is me the morning of my Google interview.

Well pajamas finally had too many holes in them. They would rip when I stood up. I decided it was time for them to move on to a different use.

micarta

Inspired by youtuber Peter brown, I decided to turn them into micarta. This is a substance made by laminating paper with epoxy. It’s often used in knife handles, I think because it’s grippy when wet.

I cut them into pieces and tried to line up the pattern.

I don’t have any picture of pouring the epoxy. I had to draft my wife to help me, and it was a sticky job. Here is right after I removed them from the mold. You should not use wood chisels for this sort of thing.

Here is the raw product

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celebration

I was very excited and had myself a little photoshoot

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future

I planned to use them to make knife handles for a bowling knife. What is a bowling knife? This is a bowling knife:

Unfortunately the bowling knife project was too ambitious and is currently on the backburner.