No. I didn't make a mistake. It's wabi sabi and that'll be two hundreds bucks!
Well, here it is. My first handle. Mistakes were made. Lessons were learned. I'd managed to overcome all the little glitches - a touch off center here, a bit out of square there and so on and everything was going pretty okay. And then there was a power sander incident while attempting to chamfer the corners.
So I went for the lemonade from lemons approach. What is it they say? Rustic. That's it.
I was thinking about tossing it into the test pile but the wife was having none of it. She loved it and insisted I install it. She said it is the most comfortable handle of any of the knives in the kitchen and she might even try the "giant" knife if it was on there.
Who am I to argue?
So, it's all glued up on a 210 Munetoshi. I gotta say, it is pretty darned comfy.
Black walnut and cherry wood.
Thanks again everyone for all the encouragement!
I think I'll try another.
It looks so comfortable Id love it for some of my own knives!