I have had a look at Rab's site and I found a couple of other places, but I really am not much of a wood worker and was looking for some reading that would give as much details as possible on the hilt bit of the process, a lot of stuff I have seen concentrates on making the blade and very little on the rest or it concentrates on blade blanks where there is a full tang and it goes into scales etc, all of which is very interesting but of little value, to me at the moment.