LocksmithArmy wrote:im not saying the glue or wood is the short lived part... electrical tape gets stickey and slides in heat and it loses its goodness with age...
i dont know how well superglue holds metal to wood, so my advice would be to score your metal first(scratch it up)
Yeah, elec tape gets funky over time (and not that much time on pick handles in my experience, then you get the black adhesive all over your hands and it's annoying) under any kind of extended usage. And yeah, CA glue will bond metal to wood, but it won't last a long time (while it does last it'll be strong though,) the PVA glue around it will help it last longer than CA glue alone since it will help to dampen the shearing forces on the CA glue bond, but eventually the CA glue will dislodge itself from the porous wood (mainly due to micro-fractures causing small wood particles to break off which will then be stuck quite solidly to the metal) and then the PVA glue will get all wiggly...
CA glue isn't really meant for porous surfaces and will eventually fail as it is only bonding to the raised areas of the grain. The rest gets wicked into the porous material, in this case the wood.
They should hold up for a while at least, and they're cheap and fast handles to make so, when it eventually fails, you can just slap another together in a few min. After removing the splinters from the pick body with acetone first of course.
I would expect the feedback to be decent though.
You know what would be good is some 2 part epoxy like JB weld or something. That'd last longer than the wood probably! I've heard of people making handles of just JB weld too... and why not, it's machinable...
I was talking to him earlier and suggested using gorilla glue, or alternatively milling a slot to accept the pick into the sticks and then using contact cement.
But all that said, at least he's experimenting and trying different things, there's alot to be said for that! It's that spirit that helps drive this sport/hobby.