Made a few handles for my knives that came with plastic ferrules. The octagon is made of apple/cherry/pear (don't remember but from my own back yard) wood and buffalo horn, the D shaped is oak with buffalo horn.
Octagon handle is for my Santoku from Hideyuki Tanaka and the big D shaped one is for my 165 Shimatani Deba.
Filing the tang hole is heavy work, especially with hard woods. Took me a few hours but I got them good enough to tap in without glue.
Too bad the images don't do the polish any justice since I got the horn to a shine from 180 to 3000grit paper and used a polishing machine with M83 to finish off the shine. I'm not too good with photography!
Making the horn fit without glue is an art and I don't imagine I can make a handle without glue just yet but I guess it can be done. Mine are pretty tight but still I used epoxy to glue the ferrule on.
I'll be making some more because there are still two knives with plastic ferrules that need changing!
Octagon handle is for my Santoku from Hideyuki Tanaka and the big D shaped one is for my 165 Shimatani Deba.
Filing the tang hole is heavy work, especially with hard woods. Took me a few hours but I got them good enough to tap in without glue.
Too bad the images don't do the polish any justice since I got the horn to a shine from 180 to 3000grit paper and used a polishing machine with M83 to finish off the shine. I'm not too good with photography!
Making the horn fit without glue is an art and I don't imagine I can make a handle without glue just yet but I guess it can be done. Mine are pretty tight but still I used epoxy to glue the ferrule on.
I'll be making some more because there are still two knives with plastic ferrules that need changing!