CAN YOU MAKE A HANDLE OUT OF HEART OF PINE

sure. you can make it out if any wood. i am not familiar with pine heart, but usually pine is too soft to offer much wear resistance.
 
Mix it with a little eye of newt for stablaizing
 
It might work, Pineheart is sort of brittle, typically fairly hard and resin impregnated.
If you plan it to be stacked between a good bolster & pommelcap might work ok. If you plan on scales, I dont think it will glue on for crap, kind of brittle if riveted, nor be very durable.
 
Old growth wood of yellow pine subspecies like longleaf and loblolly and some of the super dense oddball shortleaf/slash subspecies like Dade County/South Florida slash pine have been used for a LONG time for things ranging from flooring and building material to solid body electric guitars. The brittleness and the resin/pitch content is gong to depend on WHERE in the tree it came from. Stump and root wood are great for starting fires and not much else. Get higher up in the tree and you have some of the most desirable construction lumber in North America. We typically think of pine, partially plantation pine used for dimensional lumber today as being pale and plain, but some of the reclaimed heartwood from the old growth trees has that cool red color.
 
I lived in a house framed in heart pine. It was hard stuff. You could bend a nail trying to put up a picture, and when I did some remodeling and cut out a section of wall ... it was like cutting metal. The wood was yellow-orange color. They have companies who's whole business is taking down those old heat pine houses and salvaging the studs, rafters, and floors.

I don't see why you couldn't use it. My only concern is finishing it. You could try and have a piece stabilized and see if that helps.
 
Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
I lived in a house framed in heart pine. It was hard stuff. You could bend a nail trying to put up a picture, and when I did some remodeling and cut out a section of wall ... it was like cutting metal. The wood was yellow-orange color. They have companies who's whole business is taking down those old heat pine houses and salvaging the studs, rafters, and floors.

I don't see why you couldn't use it. My only concern is finishing it. You could try and have a piece stabilized and see if that helps.
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Stacy, a fair amount of the "new old stock" long leaf pine that has come to the market in recent years is the "sinker pine" that was being rafted down rivers in the South years ago and got stuck up under the river bank, etc. I'm not sure that stuff needs or would even take stabilizing.
 
Did this knife early this year, it turns more to reddish with time, very nice wood to work with, do not over heat it or resin begins to flow :D

Pablo

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mmm, not sure about the translation, the wood I used is called "clavo de pino" locally

Pablo
 
"clavo de pino" literally - nail of pine. The phrase would be best translated into english as "pine that is hard as steel"
 
couple of local companies make flooring from heart pine rescued from old buildings and railway bridges. they recommend finishing with floor grade polyurethane.
 
scott.livesey said:
couple of local companies make flooring from heart pine rescued from old buildings and railway bridges. they recommend finishing with floor grade polyurethane.
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That probably makes sense for most floors these days. Have you seen any pics of the "curly" long leaf pine sinker logs where the entire trunk is all bumpy? I read on one website that the sinker cypress is typically only heartwood because the bark and sapwood rots away, but those pine logs look pretty intact.
 
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