Its called the raspberry jam wattle. It was harvested for use in tool handles by early settlers and so would seem like it would make good knife scales(its actually extinct in my area due to harvesting). It also smells like raspberry jam for quite awhile after being harvested, and a light standing restores the smell even years later, it has a density dry slightly above that of water(it sinks). 1050kg m/2 while waters 1000.. pine is 350kg m/2 It seems to be very tough...lovely close grained wood.
I am wondering if its worth actually growing for harvesting for my own knives(mature in 5-7 years), I dont want to go to all the effort of planting and protecting from rabbits to find its actually lousy. So if anyone has seen/used it on a knife before what did you think?
1.Does it hold up to hard use like one would expect from such a dense wood?.
2.Is the smell actually nice or sickly/annoying.
3.Got any pictures of it on knives?
The only pictures I could find of it suck, the second is actually a picture of a picture.
I am wondering if its worth actually growing for harvesting for my own knives(mature in 5-7 years), I dont want to go to all the effort of planting and protecting from rabbits to find its actually lousy. So if anyone has seen/used it on a knife before what did you think?
1.Does it hold up to hard use like one would expect from such a dense wood?.
2.Is the smell actually nice or sickly/annoying.
3.Got any pictures of it on knives?
The only pictures I could find of it suck, the second is actually a picture of a picture.

