Question for you creative types (knife making)

[BPTactical]

Not to bust your bubble but knives as a wedding gift are bad ju-ju.
Old wives tale, superstition or what ever you call it.
I was going to make a pair of nice knives for my sisters wedding. My mom informed me under no uncertain terms that knives were inappropriate as a wedding gift.
The superstition goes that you are never to give anything that can sever a relationship as a gift.
If you do give an edged item as a gift, make sure the recipient "buys" it for a penny.





Seriously.


Bed the shank in a quality slow set epoxy-file notches in the shank so the epoxy keys into it well. Make a brass or German Silver hilt and use either brass pins or German silver pins(depending on the hilt) through the handle after the epoxy has cured.
This will minimize cracking but it may still happen, just the nature of an organic handle material.