Show us your sticks (finished handle projects)...

[birdsfan]

I plan to start making handles as well and am also interested in any recommended resources.

There are a number of great tutorial threads on here, which fully explains a step by step process. Between here and YouTube you can really get a pretty good idea how to get started. It has always been my experience that just about anyone on here is willing to spend some DM time helping new handle tinkerers get started. For what it is worth, I am planning on posting a thread documenting how I do a western handle. Stay tuned......

 

[Johnsmyname]

Very cool, thank you @birdsfan, you're always a help.

 

[pitted_soul]

They really do cut supernaturally well, I have three (at least one is the Watanabe version of the same knife). Crap handles though! I am tempted to try making a handle, can you recommend any starter resources? Cheers!

I guess I need to try another Toyama. I got a kurouchi version and it was 'meh'. All the love I had heard and then THAT.

 

[Uncle Danny]

Purple hart for a petty

 

[tostadas]

This piece of walnut had some wild figure and color

 

[JPAU]

This piece of walnut had some wild figure and color

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Gosh damnnnnn

 

[cotedupy]

This piece of walnut had some wild figure and color

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Oh well that’s just stunning!

It’s not even burl wood by the look of it…(?) Unstabilized?

 

[tostadas]

Oh well that’s just stunning!

It’s not even burl wood by the look of it…(?) Unstabilized?

It's not burl, but is stabilized. Sanded to 400 and finished with 2 coats of hardwax oil.

 

[Uncle Danny]

Chestnut handle for a Tetsujin 210 gyuto

 

[Uncle Danny]

This is just a show off picture.

Tight fit

 

[enchappo]

First coat of oil on this one. Huon pine and Western myall. To be paired with a Kyohei Shindo nakiri as a present for a friend.

 

[pitted_soul]

Curly mango and black gum burl with paper micarta liner on my Isamitsu. It was way too blade forward for my tastes so I added some heft in the handle department.

 

[Uncle Danny]

Looks like a thick handle, or is it just me?

 

[pitted_soul]

Looks like a thick handle, or is it just me?

Yours or mine? lol

I like that Huon Pine. It looks like butterscotch micarta.

 

[VincenteFox]

This is just a show off picture.

Tight fit

is this the same handle from the previous post?

 

[Uncle Danny]

Keen eye, kudos for that

Nope, the “old” handle cracked under the final instalment. I suspect a bit too much glue was the culprit. So had to make a do over.

 

[VincenteFox]

That makes sense--I thought it looked a little different, but couldn't figure out if it was just different lighting and angle.

 

[Uncle Danny]

I’ll take that as a compliment

 

[Uncle Danny]

I don’t normally do bulk work, as it tends to stress me out, but as I have unlimited time to finish this project, I said yes anyway.

So in a series of ten knives, a DK guy approached me and asked me if I was in on this project.
He had picked up the blades himself in Italy and wanted to have 10 different handles made. Well, all WA, but different wood.

So here’s the first one in a long line of knives in the next period of time.

There spines are very thin, so I can’t get the complete snug finish I usually do. (Sportsman excuses, I know )

(Bryerer Wood)

 

[pitted_soul]

My best one to date. Spalted maple burl and African blackwood and micarta spacer.

 

[Uncle Danny]

Really nice wood

 

[ethompson]

First ever handle. Pretty much done, just some areas to touch up the hand sanding on then some final 1k paper work and cleaning / oiling.

 

[pitted_soul]

Really nice wood

Thanks man. I wanted a sleeker handle but that wood was too sweet to not show it off. More from my Ashy2classy lot.

 

[Tekkz]

First ever handle. Pretty much done, just some areas to touch up the hand sanding on then some final 1k paper work and cleaning / oiling.
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First ever and you went with a full tang yo? Bold! And it looks amazing.

 

[ethompson]

First ever and you went with a full tang yo? Bold! And it looks amazing.

Thanks! Bold - perhaps. smart - definitely not.

 

[Tim Rowland]

some of a batch I just finished