Warangka repair? Please help!

A. G. Maisey · 8th January 2010, 08:14 PM

In my experience wood glues, especially the modern ones, have a tendency to generate rust if they come into contact with ferric material. To reglue this joint is simple, but if any glue gets inside the scabbard and later contacts the blade, you could have a rust problem.

Five minute epoxy is the most satisfactory adhesive.

Clean the joint thoroughly, roughen the surfaces, make a wedge that you can insert through the mouth of the wrongko to keep the surfaces to be glued, together. Smear the blade lightly with a release compound---car polish is good--- spread a very small amount of glue on the surfaces, bring the parts together, insert the blade to align the parts, hold the parts in place with your left hand while you carefully remove the blade with your right hand, insert the wedge without moving the alignment of the parts, clean the outside of the joint with water if the joint will be seen, if you are using a pendok, wait until its dry then cut it off. Clean the inside of the joint with a chisel. Wait for any epoxy on the blade to dry, then pick it off with a sharp piece of wood, wash the car polish off with mineral turps, and then drench the blade with WD40.

ThePepperSkull · 9th January 2010, 02:05 AM

David, some of the wood has broken off to where it was fed into and glued onto the horn scabbard mouth. There is still some wood left to feed into the horn scabbard mouth, so A.G.'s suggestion of epoxy will work perfectly I think. The horn material is fine thank goodness.

A.G., sounds great, I will do this ASAP! (And for the record, the joint will be covered by a pendok, so that makes this all the more easy.) I appreciate your input and thank you both very much!

9th January 2010, 02:05 AM	#2
ThePepperSkull Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 338	David, some of the wood has broken off to where it was fed into and glued onto the horn scabbard mouth. There is still some wood left to feed into the horn scabbard mouth, so A.G.'s suggestion of epoxy will work perfectly I think. The horn material is fine thank goodness. A.G., sounds great, I will do this ASAP! (And for the record, the joint will be covered by a pendok, so that makes this all the more easy.) I appreciate your input and thank you both very much! Last edited by ThePepperSkull; 9th January 2010 at 06:30 AM.

8th January 2010, 08:14 PM	#1
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7,019	In my experience wood glues, especially the modern ones, have a tendency to generate rust if they come into contact with ferric material. To reglue this joint is simple, but if any glue gets inside the scabbard and later contacts the blade, you could have a rust problem. Five minute epoxy is the most satisfactory adhesive. Clean the joint thoroughly, roughen the surfaces, make a wedge that you can insert through the mouth of the wrongko to keep the surfaces to be glued, together. Smear the blade lightly with a release compound---car polish is good--- spread a very small amount of glue on the surfaces, bring the parts together, insert the blade to align the parts, hold the parts in place with your left hand while you carefully remove the blade with your right hand, insert the wedge without moving the alignment of the parts, clean the outside of the joint with water if the joint will be seen, if you are using a pendok, wait until its dry then cut it off. Clean the inside of the joint with a chisel. Wait for any epoxy on the blade to dry, then pick it off with a sharp piece of wood, wash the car polish off with mineral turps, and then drench the blade with WD40.