Saturday, June 21, 2025

Another octagonal handle


 Apparently not as uncommon as I thought. Previous post here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very popular in Europe it seems. Here are some really nice ones, and I've learned a lot about making handles from studying this guy's catalog and gallery (you'll need to use a browser that translates): https://www.faragoszerszam.info/

https://www.faragoszerszam.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_3408.jpg

https://www.faragoszerszam.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/farago-vesok-2.jpg

He sometimes uses stainless steel nuts as ferrules, an idea I'm definitely going to try sometime now that I've accumulated some wood threading tools.

Dave said...

Sorry that's me above. Sometimes I forget to put in my name.