Not a lot of woodworking, but fashioned knife handles from spalted maple, desert ironwood, and bocote.   And mounted them on purchased knife blade blanks. 

First cut the handle wood a little over size. Then tape the rough handle pieces over the steel blade blanks to hold the handles firmly to the blades for hole drilling. Then drill 9/32" holes in the wood handles aligning to the holes in the blades. Then cut pieces of 1/8" brass for pins to go through one side handle, blade, and other side handle. Then epoxy the handle to the blade and epoxy the pins in place. Then file and sand the handles to shape. Finished with Osmo top oil.