Bayar wood?

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What exactly is Bayar wood? Is it a type of wood, or is it just a way of saying "bare" (unfinished) wood?

Reason I ask is I just received a tarwar with a bayar wood handle and I'd like to know what is good to coat it with to preserve it from rotting and cracking. It seems very soft and "grippy", but I'm afraid that it might get slick if I use BLO. What should I coat it with?
 
It may be Sati Bayar, which may be Toxicodendron parviflorum, which is also called Rhus parviflora. This is all from Google, and I have no botanical training, but it seems like it might be in the sumac family. Of course I could be completely wrong. Maybe Yangdu can enlighten us?

I think sanding it with 100 grit sandpaper and coating it with boiled linseed oil would protect the wood, yet still be grippy.

Steve
 
OK, I just didn't know if the wood, seemingly pretty soft, would become "mushy" and exude some of the oil, making it slippery.
 
I've got a couple of Tora kukris from their "sherpa" range with the pale wooden handles, and they've had a few coatings in unboiled linseed oil (to maximise absorbtion), followed by more coatings of boiled linseed oil (which dries quicker).
Gives a nice rich colour -- with no seepage or slipperiness.

Think linseed oil would generally tend to firm up a wood rather than make it softer.
 
Bayer is Nepali fruit tree.
 
I like Watco Danish oil in natural. It works great on wood and horn.
 
Thanks everyone.
Started the Linseed oil treat ment a couple of days back.
Wood is still fairly soft, and still "grippy".
 
I do have Botanical training and the genus below. ( thats the first of the two formal names) is the same one that Poison Ivy is from. But that don't mean a whole lot as cashews are also from this same genus IIRC. It's been over ten years since I delt with this. But I will double check with my references when i get home to make sure.

Marc Adkins

ferguson said:
It may be Sati Bayar, which may be Toxicodendron parviflorum, which is also called Rhus parviflora. This is all from Google, and I have no botanical training, but it seems like it might be in the sumac family. Of course I could be completely wrong. Maybe Yangdu can enlighten us?

I think sanding it with 100 grit sandpaper and coating it with boiled linseed oil would protect the wood, yet still be grippy.

Steve
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