Another wood identity thread

I guess I will expand on my earlier post. Back in 2011 I bought a guitar slab of nice walnut as a gift for a fellow knife make for handles. They in turn said they had plenty and insisted I keep it. I cut a strip off it and made one hidden tang handle. It was okay…but figure that had looked nice on the slab was a bit big for a knife handle…it was okay, but not outstanding. Worse yet, by cutting the strip off the slab, I made the rest too small to do much else with. It has been sitting in a corner by itself ever since!

I have made handles in other walnut, it is nice with an oil finish, but it had tighter figure, some being the off cuts from premium English shotgun makers. When a knife handle can be made with off cuts, or from little localised patterned areas in otherwise bland wood, it seems a shame to cut up a big figured slab that could be made into something big that showed off more figured area.
 
C_Claycomb said:
I guess I will expand on my earlier post. Back in 2011 I bought a guitar slab of nice walnut as a gift for a fellow knife make for handles. They in turn said they had plenty and insisted I keep it. I cut a strip off it and made one hidden tang handle. It was okay…but figure that had looked nice on the slab was a bit big for a knife handle…it was okay, but not outstanding. Worse yet, by cutting the strip off the slab, I made the rest too small to do much else with. It has been sitting in a corner by itself ever since!

I have made handles in other walnut, it is nice with an oil finish, but it had tighter figure, some being the off cuts from premium English shotgun makers. When a knife handle can be made with off cuts, or from little localised patterned areas in otherwise bland wood, it seems a shame to cut up a big figured slab that could be made into something big that showed off more figured area.
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It will let you know what it wants to be when its ready to....😉......Usually how it works with my crap😜
 
C_Claycomb said:
I guess I will expand on my earlier post. Back in 2011 I bought a guitar slab of nice walnut as a gift for a fellow knife make for handles. They in turn said they had plenty and insisted I keep it. I cut a strip off it and made one hidden tang handle. It was okay…but figure that had looked nice on the slab was a bit big for a knife handle…it was okay, but not outstanding. Worse yet, by cutting the strip off the slab, I made the rest too small to do much else with. It has been sitting in a corner by itself ever since!

I have made handles in other walnut, it is nice with an oil finish, but it had tighter figure, some being the off cuts from premium English shotgun makers. When a knife handle can be made with off cuts, or from little localised patterned areas in otherwise bland wood, it seems a shame to cut up a big figured slab that could be made into something big that showed off more figured area.
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Similar story to how I got my Turkish walnut from a gunmaker. This time the big doubles for Africa from Butch Searcy at the All American Double Rifle Co. All stock cut offs. Traded two knives for probably a lifetime supply. Walnut is tricky that aways. It can sometimes want to be on larger canvas than a knife handle.
 
I also received some gun stocks in the wood I bought. The other woods are Koa, curly mango, curly maple, quilted maple, spalted maple and a few others. I will be offering some both K&G stabilized and raw on the exchange after I buy a selling membership. If you remember Shelton Pacific as a wood seller (he passed), I have all his remaining wood. Mostly koa.
 
Jesse Latham said:
I also received some gun stocks in the wood I bought. The other woods are Koa, curly mango, curly maple, quilted maple, spalted maple and a few others. I will be offering some both K&G stabilized and raw on the exchange after I buy a selling membership. If you remember Shelton Pacific as a wood seller (he passed), I have all his remaining wood. Mostly koa.
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You are lucky getting the koa.
The wood you showed is either claro or bastogne walnut. looks like good tight curl.
 
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