question on handle hafting ?

[cbnutt]

i guess its called hafting where the handles are sanded down on each end close to the bolsters ?? i was looking at some bone material on knifehandles.com, it was lighter colored toward the ends and darker in the middle, which looked good to me, i was wandering if you buy a set of those that are alot bigger than what you need for a smaller knife, if you would loose that lightness towards the ends, or does the light color come back as you sand down the ends "haft" for the knife, i guess iam asking if you sand down in to the bone does the color "dye" get lighter as you go deeper in it ? thanks.......

[muskrat man]

the more you sand the lighter it will get, to an extent, the nyou hit a point where it starts getting darker halfway through the bone but you can avoid that by thinning the scale from the bottom some and the hafting.

[orvet]

Try and find a size that is close to what you need.
On many of the scales they have a variety of sizes.

I have yet to have any of their bone handles come out looking bad.
Some do look better than others, but they all look nice.

Be sure to show us the results of your labors!

Dale