Any chance of a top view of the jig you use to compress the handle?
I will ahow some pics soon. Though if you want to know there is a hole in the wooden piece to allow the tang to protrude.
I really like the slightly oval cross section of the leather stacked Estwing hammers and these are a natural progression from them.
Those look really nice.
Maybe they are as old as each other or then again birch bark handles have been about hundreds of years.
Thanks matethose are beauties! superb work really like those