[TheForge] What handle to put on hot cutter?

[Saint Phlip]

I get my roommate to make all my handles. For my hot cutter, he just
cut down an old hickory handle from another handle that was replaced-
for one of my smithing hammers, he reshaped a piece of black walnut
scrap lumber he had. You can use pretty much anything you want for a
handle, as long as it's reasonably strong, straight grained, and well
seasoned.

On 2/28/07, Mark A. Pesetsky <pesetsky at princeton.edu> wrote:
>  The one that I have has a steel handle on it...But I would think that a
> store bought $4 hickory handle would do the trick...
>
> Oh yea...
>
> No bread recipes,
> no opinion on the ABANA debacle.
> Oof dah!
>
> AMEN TO THAT STATEMENT
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>  I have just purchesed a hot cutter via ebay Item number: 330086220630.
>  As well, am I correct in assuming this is a hot cut hammer? I was
>  wondering what type of handle to put on it. If I am just going to hold
>  it in place and whack it with another hammer it doesn't need much of a
>  handle, does it? It is big enough that it would need a sledge size
>  handle. Not the length, but diameter.
>
> No bread recipes,
> no opinion on the ABANA debacle.
> Oof dah!
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