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Originally Posted by Crex
Stick tang or flat/full tang? On a "working" chopper type blade, I like to use horsemat - hard to beat the grip/texture for control. Easier to install on full tang but a little ingenuity and it can be applied to a stick tang.
For looks and real wood, it'd be hard to beat the African Blackwood. Ebony has it's issues as Doug pointed out.
There are some dark browns out there that will go "black" with oil finishes - wenge comes to mind. Doug's advice on wood turner suppliers is a great idea and they may have some alternative woods that would work just fine.
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Full tang this time. I know you haven't asked for this, but I seldom use/work with stick tang. I just don't trust it as much as I do to full tangs.
There was a trench knife I was making once, when I had difficulties even to get the handle onto blade, because the weld was such a disaster while assemly of stick tang. I was just breaking once after another.
Well, in Slovenia, we are rich with beech and walnut, so it's kinda difficult to get any exotic wood (although, there's about 60% of the country covered with woods
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For African Blackwood I've found on ebay, here's the link:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Handle-Timb...wAAOSwGh5Z2uAy
Is this the proper kind of wood? It's 1" (25mm) thick, I think I could cut it in half to get 1 plate for each side.
What do you think?