Lauri and Polar whittler stcked birch bark handles

[brancho]

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.

those are beauties! superb work really like those

Thanks mate

 

[WULF]

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.

Im presuming the hole is large enough to be-able to pein the tang over alf??

 

[plastic-ninja]

Beautiful work as always Alf.
Still using my Steen Nilssen blade from you as my favourite carver.
Fits my hand so well and takes an edge beautifully.It's a keeper mate.
Cheers , Simon

 

[Elen Sentier]

Oh my !!! what beautiful work.

 

[WULF]

Beautiful work as always Alf.
Still using my Steen Nilssen blade from you as my favourite carver.
Fits my hand so well and takes an edge beautifully.It's a keeper mate.
Cheers , Simon

glad your still enjoying the steen simon,great knife.

 

[brancho]

After annealing the end of the tang I file it down to fit through a 3mm hole in the brass and pien it into a counter sunk area around the hole if that makes sense also the tang only needs to be about 3mm longer than the handle or it will hard to rivet.

 

[Niels]

Great knives, really like the finish on the lauri one, will have to try that one myself too.

 

[Steve13]

They look great knives to use

 

[SOAR]

Fantastic work Alf!! love these blades and you have done a fantastic job with the bark handles

 

[brancho]

Thanks for the new comments on this old thread guys.