Custom Opinel No.6 Knife Handle (Cocobolo Wood)

[airmojo]

Once I started doing some custom handles for my Opinel knives, I remembered that I had a nice piece of wood salvaged from an air rifle cleaning rod (and old Beeman product) that the metal rod had snapped off.

It had a nice cocobolo hexagonal handle... so I made this for my Opinel No.6.

I used the end piece that I had to cut off to get to the solid wood for the knife blade... braided a paracord lanyard for it !

It's going to be hard to throw any wood away now... especially tool handles... I may take up carving !

 

[Alberta Ed]

Classy!

 

[knarfeng]

Very Cool.
There's a couple of threads in Traditional on folks who have modified their Opinel handles. Might serve as inspiration source for further explorations.

Opinel mod ideas | Show me your modded Opinel's

Good day everyone! I recently purchased a Opinel no 6 as i wanted to try my hand at modifying it. I've never modded any knife before, and since Opinel's are famous for the mods that people do that them i was very intrigued. So i started sanding down and rounding off the handle. My initial idea...

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Opinel Mods, lets see them

Been getting the itch to modify some knives lately, I will blame it on Glenn Badd and seeing his work. The Opinel seems to be the simplest (and inexpensive) design to start out with. If you have an Opinel that's been modded or customized, lets see them for some inspiration.

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Opinel Modification: Scratch Carving.

Apart from being great knives, the handle of an Opinel is a blank canvass for modification and design. Tried a bit of scratch carving on my no8 which, whilst not 100% successful, was a pleasurable thing to do nonetheless. What do you think ? Untitled by marksawdust123, on Flickr Untitled...

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