{"id":1053,"date":"2013-05-05T22:54:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T05:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new-gro.dyn.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2014-07-22T16:12:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T23:12:44","slug":"rethinking-the-handle-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking the handle wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blade design is inspired by the keen-edge blades 9 inch loveless. After the handle felt fat in my hand, I took a second look at their pattern. I double wrapped my handle \u2013 so right off the bat my dimensions were bigger than theirs by 6mm. So I figured I would cut the same knife but with either side of the handle inset by 3mm on each side. (Inset shown with the red arrows).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1058\" title=\"Second try with loveless handle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/prototype_LV2_handle_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also added a small guard on the back side of the blade opposite to the finger guard. The idea is the extra guards and insets would simultaneously make the blade thinner even after I added a double wrap, and help keep the under wrap from sliding around on the handle over time. All in all I think I want to play with this idea more. I like making the handle feel thicker with a double wrap \u2013 but without its feeling wider.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I dropped the knife off at the dojo for people to play with before taking pictures of the new design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blade design is inspired by the keen-edge blades 9 inch loveless. After the handle felt fat in my hand, I took a second look at their pattern. I double wrapped my handle \u2013 so right off the bat my dimensions were bigger than theirs by 6mm. So I figured I would cut the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knifemaking","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}