Can you guess what type wood this is?

[Burl Source]

Can you guess what type wood this is?

You may have seen this wood before on a knife handle. Where it comes from the knife makers consider it to be the ultimate knife handle wood.

A couple hints;
1. It grows in desert conditions and is as hard and heavy as desert ironwood. Density 1.0 to 1.4
2. It is related to Koa. That is why the grain and figure look familiar.

Go ahead and guess and post your answer here. It is not a type of wood that is seen very often so don't feel bad if you guess wrong.

Here are a few more photos of the same type wood that shows a couple other variations.

 

[Russ Andrews]

Gidgee...? The bottom one may be gidgee burl...

 

[TexasBD]

Beautiful wood and I've seen it before on hunting pictures and used it many of time fishing and here are my fish pictures.
Jesses HuntinG
TexasBD
So you asked for links to free picture hosts them so I thought I'd post my own Fish pictures gallery
You can check out most on www.google.com great blade and knife for fishing to bad I lost mine.

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[Doug C]

Where it comes from the knife makers consider it to be the ultimate knife handle wood.

There's a hint. ^

I agree with Russ, ringed gidgee.

Doug

 

[lwrhea]

Gidgee.

 

[RogerP]

Gidgee was my first thought as well. I've had it on a couple knives - very nice stuff.

Roger

 

[Big Rick]

I would say Gidgee too, I've got some knives from Australia that look just the same and they have Gidgee scales.

 

[Burl Source]

You guys are a lot smarter than me. Before I got my first piece of Gidgee I had never seen it before. Adam Parker was the one who got me hooked on this. Now Ringed Gidgee is my favorite wood. The bottom piece is root burl. This wood is difficult to photograph and have it show as nice as it is in person.

 

[bbarnettAUS]

Can you guess what type wood this is?

You may have seen this wood before on a knife handle. Where it comes from the knife makers consider it to be the ultimate knife handle wood.

Yes its gidgee. Only some consider it the ultimate knife handle wood, those being from the east coast. There is plenty of similar looking woods with a lot more feature out west. Dave Brodziak has been showcasing them for years.

 

[Burl Source]

Yes its gidgee. Only some consider it the ultimate knife handle wood, those being from the east coast. There is plenty of similar looking woods with a lot more feature out west. Dave Brodziak has been showcasing them for years.

Which woods should I look into getting from Western Australia?

 

[ArtinNC]

Nice wood, but never heard of it.

 

[SteelSnob]

Looks great.

 

[petah]

Sapele !!


I should have read the whole-wall-o-text...

 

[RogerP]

The bottom piece is root burl. This wood is difficult to photograph and have it show as nice as it is in person.

Now that I hadn't seen before.

Roger

 

[Kevin Jones]

Ringed Gidgee does make a nice handle IMO.
Blade Magazine did a good and interesting article 2-3 years ago which followed Shawn Mcintyre deep into the Australian outback hunting for Gidgee.

Very difficult to find, was the theme of the article.

 

[David Wesner]

Very pretty wood, especially the root burl :thumbup:

Does this wood exhibit a chatoyance and depth such as you might see in koa, or good curly maple ??

 

[RogerP]

Does this wood exhibit a chatoyance and depth such as you might see in koa, or good curly maple ??

The pieces I had certainly did. Photos can't capture chatoyance very well (as it is fully revealed only in motion) but this shot of a gidgee-handled Russ Andrews integral gives you at least some idea:

Roger

 

[Burl Source]

Very pretty wood, especially the root burl :thumbup:

Does this wood exhibit a chatoyance and depth such as you might see in koa, or good curly maple ??

Not as much flash as you would see with Koa, but close. More like what you would see in maple.

 

[David Wesner]

The pieces I had certainly did. Photos can't capture chatoyance very well (as it is fully revealed only in motion) but this shot of a gidgee-handled Russ Andrews integral gives you at least some idea:

Roger

Thanks Roger. You are so right about the motion/chatoyance relationship. You still did a fine job capturing the beauty in this piece.

Beautiful handle material for a beautiful knife ! :thumbup:

Not as much flash as you would see with Koa, but close. More like what you would see in maple.

Thanks Mark

I'll be on the lookout





:thumbup:

 

[RogerP]

You still did a fine job capturing the beauty in this piece.

It's Russ' pic - but otherwise I quite agree.

Roger