Saturday, June 21, 2025

Another octagonal handle


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

2 comments:

  1. 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.

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

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