Boring a rectangular knife tang socket on a wood lathe.

Hi everyone. After years of trying to cut nice straight tang sockets, I came up with this method and get beautiful results. Yay!!😃 I know it’s easier to just rivet scales onto full tangs and have done that lots of times, but wood always shrinks away from the carefully shaped handles and we end up with sharp metal edges sticking out! Stabilising the wood is an answer, but then you don’t get the nice warm feel of living wood in your hand. I hope you enjoy this video and there will be more instalments soon. Cheers from downunda! 😁👋