Great Bias Cut Palm

[Greenberg Woods]

Hey guys, its a beautiful day here in Santa Cruz, so i photographed one my my favorite handle materials, bias cut black palm. The blocks are strong and heavy, and the bias cut nature gives a lot of visual interest.

Black palm is an interesting wood, with the unstabalized version being very prone to tear out, but when stabilized and bias cut, it gains a magical property. It sells knives better than just about any other handle. This is a thread where some makers talk about the selling power of palm.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1134969-Black-Palm


The difficulty is, good palm "that is palm with a high concentration of the darker black fibers" is only available in narrow widths, so cutting on the bias leaves you with a LOT of waste "in my case about 50 percent."

All the black palm is stabilized by K&G

Blocks are 2-1-5, +/- 1/16th in thickness. Some blocks are slightly longer or shorter, no more than about a quarter of an inch shorter, but up to 3/4 of an inch long.

All palm blocks are $35 dollars each! You wont find bias cut palm at this quality at a better price.

1 is sold


Blocks 1-3 front

Blocks 1-3 back


Blocks 4-6 front

Blocks 4-6 back


Blocks 7-9 front

Blocks 7-9 back


Thanks for looking! Let me know if you have any questions!

 

[Greenberg Woods]

As Stacy has told me, if you want a really grippy, tactile surface you can sand the handles down to about 500 and give a very hard buff with wax to raise the black fibers just a touch proud. It gives one of the most attractive and tactile surfaces not just of natural handle material, but any of them.