Hi I was looking at the knives on mike snodys website and I was looking at his damascus explorer extreme and then I looked at his resistor the desert iron wood on theses two knives look very differt the wood on the resistor is much darker than the explorer extreme is this natural or is it because one is stabilized and the other isint look at the pictures and tell what you think the website is www.snodyknives.com
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Desert iron wood can vary in color from a dark yellow to almost black. Those variations can be found on the same chunk of wood sometimes within inches apart. Thats what makes it a very neat wood to work with, you will get a full spectrum of colors on one handle some times. If it is stabilized then that can also change the color depending on what type of stabilizer is used.
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Natural Desert Ironwood runs from black to light gold colors.
If it were stabilized, it could be a slight shade darker, but not much.
The knives you see are done with three different cuts, and I don't think they are stabilized, but you might want to ask Mike Snody...
If it were stabilized, it could be a slight shade darker, but not much.
The knives you see are done with three different cuts, and I don't think they are stabilized, but you might want to ask Mike Snody...
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The denser the wood the harder it is to stabailize , Desert Ironwood , Lignum Vitae etc. these woods are not going to soak up much of anything.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=408056
read that thread.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=408056
read that thread.
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rebeltf said:
Yep, those woods are so tough and dense on their own they really won't take much if any stabilizing, and they really don't need it.
Lignum Vitae especially. It's not only dense but very oily and waxy. It was used often as bearings in ships for many years and still may be.
I would think that stabilizing companies wouldn't even try to stabilize LV, just like they won't cocobolo and some other really oily woods.
I have a pair of stabilized Ironwood scales given to me years ago by the owner of the forerunner of WSSI, but they are the only ones I've seen.
He just did them as a test and wouldn't do them after that, said it wasn't worth the price for the little gain.