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Title: Wierd handle materials
Post by: dcmeckel on May 19, 2011, 07:20:00 PM

I just saw a post where a guy is making a handle out of an Oosik and it reminded me of another guy down here in Texas who went to the University of Texas. Well there mascot is a Longhorn steer,so this fella ground up some Longhorn dung,mixed it with epoxy,and made a ball point  pen out of it!Just a useless bit of usefull information.

Title: Re: Wierd handle materials
Post by: SveinD on May 20, 2011, 07:32:00 AM

A swedish knifemaker, I think his name is Bror Näslund, makes knives out of recycled plastic and other strange materials! Darn nice ones as well!  :)

Title: Re: Wierd handle materials
Post by: Ray Hammond on May 20, 2011, 09:04:00 AM

yep...they make micarta like material from old blue jeans.... I've seen armadillo shell...just about any inert material, with patience and the proper technique, can be made into a knife scale or handle.

Title: Re: Wierd handle materials
Post by: SveinD on May 20, 2011, 07:43:00 PM

Also, Norwegian knifemaker Morten Håkonsen has made a knife with coffeebeans molded into parts of the handle. Apaprently the knife smelled vaguely of coffee  :)

Title: Re: Wierd handle materials
Post by: skullworks on May 20, 2011, 08:51:00 PM

I've seen  a stabilized bar of grape nuts used as well as kangaroo dung.

Title: Re: Wierd handle materials
Post by: GabeO on May 21, 2011, 02:06:00 PM

man i had to goole this  to find out what it was never would have thought about using oosik and where would you but it