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I'm ordering a paring knife blank (and maybe an oyster knife).
I have some cherry wood I'm going to use for the scales.
I'm thinking about using a coloured liner to give an accent colour in between the tang and scales. All the colours under the sun seem to be available.
What colour liners do you lot think would work with a cherry handle?
Currently thinking ;
A) very thin black 1mm or <1mm, just to frame the wood.
B) 2mm black contrast.
C) varying thickness of contrasting grey, red, black in a not uniform pattern - ie v, v. thin black, 2mm red, 3mm grey on one side, then all grey on the other framed either side with black.
sorta like this, but obvs only one little section.
Originally I was thinking brass fixing bolts/pins. But this version has a steel handgaurd butt(?) thingy. So I'm less sure about brass and that lump of steel. A bit like:
