Thread: Snakewood - gorgeous stuff

It looks like the full version is out. how about combining it with another piece of material lets say in the middle or the ends like the nice piece that Bill did with the abalone? the snakewood has beautiful grain it almost looks like tiger stripes

Yes, that's the deal with knife scales blanks. If you have to work with them, you have no choice but to combine pieces into a composite handle.

Originally Posted by PapaBull

That's a good example of the price one can expect to pay for a tiny piece of snakewood. $20.00 for a 5 inch piece. Unfortunately, that's about 1/2" short of what's needed for a 5/8 razor and about an inch short of what's needed for a 7/8 or 8/8 razor. That's the big problem with buying knife handle blanks. They're almost always too short (5 inches).

They don't sell them bigger than 5"?? Wonder why?

Rich, it's because this stuff is EXPENSIVE and anything over 5 inches gets cut off by knife-makers. The supply houses all buy the stuff pre-cut and prepared and just stock the standards, which are usually 4.5 to 5.25 inches with 5.25 inches being very unusual. Some of the really expensive slabs like Mother of Pearl and abalone come in 2.25" x 3/4" up to maybe 4.25 for a pair costing over $50.00.