Thinking of making a hatchet handle.

[Park Swan]

I have one of these for shaping handles and it works great.

 

[ekill]

Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[AutoColt]

I was thinking about something like zebrawood, marblewood, or osage orange

If it's not too late for my $.02, I just finished making a VERY short handle for a small hatchet from osage orange, and am very happy with the wood. It was a pretty rough first attempt, but I learned a lot!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SRwe_v-QNwaaW-s5K4unxw9zBxOviFxsxNGeQWfyf4w/pub

 

[Agent_H]

If it's not too late for my $.02, I just finished making a VERY short handle for a small hatchet from osage orange, and am very happy with the wood. It was a pretty rough first attempt, but I learned a lot!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SRwe_v-QNwaaW-s5K4unxw9zBxOviFxsxNGeQWfyf4w/pub

If you are in Portland, then I am not far away. <-- not meant to be creepy...

Did you come by the Osage locally by any chance?