Where to buy wood for a rehandle?

[Highbinder]

Hello folks,

Well I was out last night and I spent a good while batoning wood to help keep my fire going in the rain - turns out the rubber grip on the knife doesn't play nice and I now have a huge bloody welt of a blister below my pinky knuckle.

I really like the knife, the blade is easy enough to sharpen (apart from the damn curved tip!!) but the handle is really putting me off. It's a Mora, the '2080' I believe - the one marketed as a bushcraft knife - and has a 1/2 or 2/3 length stick tang, a bit more substantial than a normal Mora, so I was thinking of rehandling the blessed thing.

Can anyone tell me where I could get wood suitable for the handle? I'd really love a nice piece of Olive. Is there something in particular I should be looking for or would something like this be okay?

 

[Shewie]

If you put "knife scales" into ebay you should get some good results. Fairly reasonable price too usually.

 

[Highbinder]

If you put "knife scales" into ebay you should get some good results. Fairly reasonable price too usually.

Probably going to try rehandling it with a single piece rather than two scales. Friction fit backed up with bondage glue (or whatever the stuff is called!).

You're to blame shewie I watched your vid of you rehandling a mora with greenwood.

 

[Shewie]

You're to blame shewie I watched your vid of you rehandling a mora with greenwood.

Err ... not guilty your honour

My knife making skills are not broadcastable

 

[Highbinder]

Err ... not guilty your honour

My knife making skills are not broadcastable

Ah beg your pardon, dug out the original post and it's not yours! Eep, avatars are similar maybe it was that.

Regardless... I'm still blaming you Shewie!

 

[mikew]

Take a look here http://www.knifescales.co.uk/content/knife-blocks-by-jean-scandi.php or if you really want olive PM me and I'll see if I can help.

 

[Everything Mac]

Jean is very good
http://www.knifescales.co.uk/index.php

 

[Highbinder]

Ah cheers, thats a cracking link. I'd like olive but I don't know how easy it is to work? - What would be a wood thats good to work with?

 

[dorkingbushcraft]

i think im guilty?

 

[Opal]

I see a bit of wood lying about and use it, like this

bit of whittling...and I ain't the brightest star in the nursery produced this, cuts great and the handle is fine without all that stabilising stuff.
Nothing to write home about but does the job and dead comfy in the hand.