Sculpting a handle by Claudio

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Claudio gave me permission to copy this for my website.
I am posting a copy here so you will not have to leave the forum.

These photos and his comments show how he sculpts the handles on his fighters.

Molding a Burl Source's wood
Hello friends, a few days ago I received a Burl's wood, who very kindly sent me to Argentina, I am very happy because have an excellent stabilized.
Here I show you some photos of the process for our handles because many times I have wondered about this.

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More shaping and sanding.

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Checking how it fits his hand.

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More finishing touches.

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Jaja .. If it is beef fat, desempasta pulley and leaves the surface much better. Try it!

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After much sanding and polishing ... voilá!

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In other oportunity I will show you the finish knife
Best regards.
Claudio
 
The finished knife.

Fighter is a 9 'san mai, steel 420 and 1095, the handle is maple burl dyed and stabilized.

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OK the beef fat thing was crazy(and very argentine, I might add). But other than that, I get from this that basically, he's really patient and talented and did it all by hand. Nice.
 
I love to sculpt stuff, Thanks for the great tutorial Mark....Will save into the memory banks for the next one :)
 
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