Originally Posted by QKShooter

Long curves and straight cuts can be easily accomplished by scoring the cut with a sharp utility knife and then carefully bending - the Kydex will break right on the cut.

There is no need to cut all the way through just do a nice scoring cut.

BTW...rivets are fine/best.

No plastic cements or solvents work very well on Kydex. It is an extremely solvent resistant material.
Lacquer thinner, MEK, Acetone, Weldbond, Duco, Special Epoxy for plastics, Super Glue...forget them all.

None of them passed my informal and highly unscientific bond strength tests.

I even exactly duplicated the published solvent formulation {with the dissolved Kydex shavings} as recommended by Kydex and that sucked also.

My test was:
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> Making sure the material was perfectly clean.
> Glueing/cementing 2" test strips together w/ a 1" overlap.
> Waiting a full 24 hours before doing anything.

and if I could pull the two pieces back apart then I called it "failed"

I have not found any readily available solvent or plastic cement that will actually "melt" and fuse two pieces of Kydex together and join them as one piece the way traditional plastic cements usually work.