hidewrapped handles?

[PayetteRucker]

Have any of the Kamis ever tried water buffalo wrapped handles? They'd do a nice job of covering up cosmetic cracks and other small issues, plus it'd be durable and very grippy and shock absorbing.

 

[Cotherion]

Would be nice fir the survival knife.

 

[warty]

I have other knives I have wrapped with raw hide and I did wrap one of my Tamangs with Hemp Thread over the satisal handle to give it some more diameter and a bit better grip. I have been wrapping various handles with cotton, hemp and 550 cord for a while now. Either over the existing handle or after removing the older handle and find it to be an easy way to rehandle an old knife.

 

[Nicholas]

On another, equally practical note, that could also allow for the making of more brightly-colored handles: the use of "dyed hide." On the other hand, there's very likely to be a valid, time-tested reason for NOT doing it...

 

[Ugly Duck]

I have a paracord-wrapped handle on a Bura CAK... very grippy, comfy..