Handle Treatment: What Do You Do, and Why?

The fragrance wouldn't last forever anyway.

I do as little as possible to any of the handles. If they're wood, they sometimes get Watco's Danish finishing oil. Horn gets lanolin.

I prefer naturally appearing wood to the highly finished wet look of a True oil.

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This is what I have doing a lot of lately:


Hand-sand to 400-600 grit (depending on the wood. Some redwood I did the other day only need 200 grit :eek: )

The hand-buff in some Briwax.

Last step = hit it with a squirt of Ballistol - both blade and handle.

I use this on exotic (oily) woods as well as stabilzed woods. If I'm just using a plain non-oily wood, then I'll go back and build up an oil finish first. Then top it off with wax and Ballistol.


Benefits to me:

1. retains the natural look and feel of wood
2. satin finish = user
3. easy to restore/maintain
4. smells great. :D



p.s. I got my Ballistol at a local pawn shop. Any place that has guns is bound to have the stuff.
 
And I walked by this place.........which sells incense sticks.......

They have this incense wood which can be made into incense sticks (as powder)......small little chucks that burns by itself like incense in a small little incense stove..........

And these big chucks..........which is very small by comparison...........2 1/2 inches diameter by 4 inches long..............those are kind of a sandal wood ?

So expensive......but so tempting to buy one and send it over to Nepal ............to make a handle with :o
 
Astrodada said:
They have this incense wood which can be made into incense sticks.

And these big chucks..........which is very small by comparison...........2 1/2 inches diameter by 4 inches long..............those are kind of a sandal wood ?

So expensive......but so tempting to buy one and send it over to Nepal ............to make a handle with :o
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Astro any kind of incense wood would be subject to theft from beginning in the Nepali mail reception area to the one delievering the package to BirGhorka, and especially if the odor could be smelled through the package material.
Nepal Ho, just the way things are in Nepal, sad but true.:(
I'm pretty sure that I remember some of the really fancy HI Khukuris being stolen before they were shipped out of Nepal.
Also seems like Pala paid the post office a visit and dropped some specific warnings.:D
I don't recall whether the khukuris were returned and shipped ot not. It's been quite a while back that this all happened.
 
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