Some new handles

[makanouchi]

beautiful handles, one of these days, I'll get one.

[apicius9]

Two more with Mark's turbo redwood lace burl


Redwood burl and creme colored ferrule.






Redwood burl, musk ox ferrule, fossil coral between black fiber and copper spacers. The coral is a bit of work, very porous, needs several rounds of filling with CA glue before finishing it. But I like it when it's done.










Stefan

P.S. No idea why embedding pics sometimes works and sometimes doesn't...

[Don Nguyen]

HOLY COW. Dat fossil coral, with everything else, is incredible.

That's my favorite one from you to this day.

[Lefty]

Great to see a bunch of new stuff from you, Stefan. That blue Bakelite...man!

[apicius9]

Here are a few more:

Small signature and marbled horn handle for a paring knife.




Blackwood handles with M3 'white mokume' reconstituted metal, bakelite, and spalted mango






These are all koa handles. The first one is my current favorite, a dark, almost quilted koa. Usually the darker koa either comes from higher elevations of from older trees. This one here has a marbled ferrule and a musk ox spacer (btw, that one is available, sized for a 270 gyuto, PM me if interested). The middle one is kind of premium-heirloom on one side and spalted on the other, really nice combo. The third one is unstabilized koa (it will remain here on the islands, so I am not too worried). All three look much better in reality and have a nice chatoyance even though not the craziest I have ever seen.








Stefan

[kalaeb]

Nice, is the one with the blue bakelite spoken for?

[apicius9]

Nice, is the one with the blue bakelite spoken for?

Yep, only the left koa handle is available.

Stefan

[Johnny.B.Good]

Some beauties here, Stefan.

Nice work.

[brainsausage]

I think the top one is blue bakelite with horn.
Great work, Stefan.

That bottom one looks REEEEALLLL familiar...

[brainsausage]

Oops- didnt show the pics!