Knots that I have used instead of leather wrapping handles the two bight turk's head and gaucho knot

this was so helpful!! I have a Renaissance Faire coming up and I have a staff I've been looking to wrap and had no idea! I've never worked with leather before but I am super excited for this!

I started learning to tie turks heads two years ago because I wanted to put a wrap on a walking stick I made from a branch I picked up in Yosemite years ago. I’ve wrapped everything but the walking stick but now you’ve given me a great idea for doing it. Thanks for sharing. Donald

This is awesome but I wish the lighting was better.

I'm in the process of making a couple of walking sticks and this came up in my recommended list. Wow! This is beautiful, and different, way to finish off a stick. Thank you. I'm definitely subscribing.

I've got an axe and it doesn't have the fawns foot, or bell at the end of the handle, it's similar to the pieces of wood you're working with. Anyway, I started about a inch or so from the end and followed your instructions using the first wrap (the best I could) and it turned out pretty nice. I only had six feet of leather and I ended up with between three and a half to four inches of wrap, with about eighteen inches left over. It seems to be locked in pretty tight, I don't think it's going anywhere. Thank you for posting this video!

been looking to do something like this on a walking stick for my father. you make it look easy here goes nothing.

Love that book

I have a collection of axes, all functional norse style axes, battle ready, and I wrapped them like this and they came out really nice, and I also used this on a lightsaber I customized, thanks a million

This is exactly what I needed, my Knife handles are first wrapped in a silicon ribbon and then I was looking for a wrap on top of that to protect the silicon and look nice. I used your links to buy the items, hope that was a reference links

This was very useful, thank you.

Thanks for your help with this process besto use on my project

Just found your channel, great info. Liked and subscribed.

This is a great idea for a learner video, but maybe next time you can use a lighter color leather with better lighting (as Luke mentioned).

Its a really cool look, however the video is really dim with the lighting. This makes it quite hard to see the details of what is happening.

gonna do you this to my motorcycle bars for my grips ;)

Very interesting video however the lighting is quite dim and your braiding project is in shadow and difficult to see any detail.

lack of lighting we do not see well the manipulations

This looks really cool. Little beyond my abilities but I think I will try and do this for my lightsaber someday.

First of all, thank you for making a video. I’d like to recommend that you think of a way to eliminate the echo so that we can understand you better. I like the way you wrap your handles. I’m going to attempt to wrap my Bowie knife handle the same way. My fingers are really long so I need more thickness in the handle.

I am restoring a knife that had originally had a stacked leather handle on it but I think I am gonna do a gaucho knot handle because it looks the easiest. Is your leather damp? I was gonna dampen mine with water so it will shrink. Is this a good idea?