Handle in progress

[JoBone]

Hello,

I’m in the middle of a couple handles and thought it would be fun to show the work.

For this project, I am working with Ed, who has a couple knives he wants handles for. After a brief discussion, he decided to order some wood and have me work on it.

The first phase included a lot of dialog to collaboratively design the handles. Although he had 2 blocks of wood, 1 of those was full of voids, while the other was just big enough for 2 handles. We decided to use the nicer block for both, with a little variation with spacers and ferrule.

For these pics :
1) initial blocks
2) cutting block for 2 handles
3) design photo

 

[JoBone]

Next two pics

1) glued up
2) starting the shaping. I ran out of time, so will continue with the shaping my next session.

Hope to post pics as I finish this up

 

[merlijny2k]

That last pic looks an awful lot like five works in progress rather than two mate

 

[merlijny2k]

Going to do slotted dowel or are you making the slot in the handles directly?

 

[JoBone]

Going to do slotted dowel or are you making the slot in the handles directly?

Hidden dowels

 

[merlijny2k]

For a hidden dowel it has to go in fully slotted before gluing the front cap on doesn't it? You did all that already? Seems like I am missing something obvious here

 

[JoBone]

Yes, it is slotted before glueing on the cap. There will be more filing after the handle is glued.

Like the images below

 

[JoBone]

Getting close.

1) initial shaping
2) sanded and smoothed out
3) first coat of sealing

A bit of a silly error for humility.

 

[JoBone]

Mistype

 

[Supraunleaded]

Getting close.

1) initial shaping
2) sanded and smoothed out
3) first coat of sealing

A bit of a silly error for humility.

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Those are the EXACT handles I’d wish for my blades, holy smokes great job!

 

[bahamaroot]

Beautiful work Joe!

 

[milkbaby]

Those look freaking GREAT!

 

[Jon-cal]

Wow, those are vibrant!

 

[kdeleon]

Very nice. Cool to see the steps in the process.

 

[merlijny2k]

Oh Hééééll yeah. That looks awesome.

Thanks for the explanatory pictures. Much appreciated.

 

[JoBone]

Couple pics after the install

 

[Tim Rowland]

Those look like they came out great Jo. Great size for the blades.

 

[milkbaby]

Very classy looking, great job!

Only issue is the photos, the color isn't as vibrant as in the earlier photo. Probably to do with the lighting conditions and camera?

 

[JoBone]

Only issue is the photos, the color isn't as vibrant as in the earlier photo. Probably to do with the lighting conditions and camera?

The end photo didn’t quite capture the vibrancy. That’s ine area I definitely need some improvement.