In this part of the tutorial we take the sword into the shop and finish it off.

Part 1 of this tutorial is here

We are going to add a handle to this sword. And to do this we drill two holes in the tang. Use a center punch and mark the location of two holes.

And drill out two quarter inch holes.

Cut a piece of wood to about the size of the handle you want. And then cut it in half length wise. Here you see that I have cut a piece of wood to about handle size and I am scribing a line down the center length of it so I can cut it in half.

Clamp the tang to those handle halves and drill through the wooden handles.

We are going to glue and pin the wood handle halves to the tang.

Apply a liberal amount of glue to all the pieces and glue them together.

Insert wooden pins into the holes and clamp the whole assembly down.

Once the glue has dried we rasp the handle into a comfortable shape.

Sand the handle smooth.

Apply tung oil to the handle.

Now you can bevel the edges of the sword with a belt sander or a file.

And That's it! Your sword is done.

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