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The dummy stock can be seen on the far left. Next we glued in a flat piece of wood for the handle. Other blocks were glued ontop of this central piece and the handle was built up.

As you can see the handle is slightly different wood.
Dave managed to rustle up some vintage teak from his personal stash for the handles. It smells gorgeous, so much oil in it and very dark and ... well beautiful.

When glueing teak there seems to be a good consensus on the glue to use : West System slow cure but a bit of debate over the gluing method.

Despite Daryl Wong saying that he doesn't clean the teak with acetone we decided to both for the stock lams and for the handle. Especially for the handle... very 'oily'...

Daryl mentioned not to mix woods - originally we were going to have a paduak handle and I still think that this would have been fine but it was proving hard to get hold of and Dave came up with the 'special reserve' teak so we went with that.