Watanabe 180mm Nakiri rehandle

[taz575]

A local friend from the old CKTG forum reached out about rehandling a 180mm Watanabe nakiri recently. He had some spalted stabilized wood from years ago and wanted something blue as the spacer. I also removed the chestnut handle, cut off the plastic ferrule and installed a faux horn ferrule so he could use that one on another knife.

The blue is some of the blue camo material I made and I think it goes really nicely with the blade and the lighter golden spalted handle!

[stevem627]

Boy, that was money well spent. The new handle is great and you made the old one a nice handle to re-use. Fantastic work!

[billk1002]

That is a really nice looking handle!

[jknife]

Excellent blade and a handle to match. As the young uns say “ I’m jelly “.

[taz575]

Thanks! The Nakiri has a beefier solid feel to it, which is different from most other laser nakiri.

[TheLegalRazor]

Beautiful handle!

[taz575]

Thanks! The wood really took on a nice golden color once I started adding layers of Tung Oil to it.