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Wooden block for making knife handles.
This knife handle block is made from walnut and is ideal for crafting your own stylish handle for a knife.
Knives with a tang have been known since ancient times and were the standard design amongst the Germanic tribes and the Vikings. Various types of wood were used for the handles, into which the tang was burnt.
To complement the transition to the blade, early medieval and Viking-era knives often featured a disc made of bone or horn, which was inserted decoratively between the blade and the wooden handle.
In the High Middle Ages, however, more elaborate handles were common, and so-called ‘disc handles’ were popular, in which the knife handle was fitted at intervals with a smaller or larger number of discs made from different materials.