Made a new handle, birch, good workability, closed grain so no problem with finish, shame about the knot though, a finest 2-band badger shedding big time, good news is I only use kindergarten quality glue to start with testing different lofts, so knot will be easy to remove for a switch, might go for a 26 mm synthetic next time (the all black and the brown from Yaqi are both tempting)
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