Marking tool swap #1: Getting ideas together

Hmm. That piece looks like pine. Neither that or cedar are hard or durable enough to use as a knife handle, in my opinion. Don’t want to discourage the do it yourself spirit, far from it! I just think that those materials would end badly.

-- Brian in Arlington, TX - Laziness is the foundation of efficiency.

What would you suggest?

I am all new to this so don’t know what kind of wood to use for a project like this, much less know where to get it.

I am open to suggestion so that I can learn these things.

-- Derec

I would say a hardwood.
Maple, Walnut, Cocobolo, the fruit tree in your backyard…
All would make good woods…

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OK, I am stumped.

I went to start the handle for the marking knife. I cut two pieces of wood that I figured I could laminate together, with slot for the blade cut out. I just could not seem to make it work.

Any suggestions on how to approach this? I am wide open!

-- Derec