Spent the weekend Kayaking on Cherrry Lake near Yosemite. Chopped a lot of hardened oak and Manzanita washed up on shore. Didn't notice it at the time but ended up with a lot of scratches on my new WWII and 20" AK. Hindsight always being 20/20, I guess it would be very hard for the surface of any driftwood not to be loaded with tiny silica particles just waiting to mar a blade with a beautiful mirror polish. I plan on posting a review on them later this week.
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Driftwood Alert!!
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look forward to the review.
Burnished it right up though. Not sure if it was from the sunbleached oak(quite hard by itself) or the Manzanita. Didn't have any really large pieces of the manzanita, but some of the limbs would break under the impact of the blade after the edge stopped cutting. I've got a nice burl piece of it on my bench looking for a Puukko blade to work on whenever I can get a life. I started out with a burl that weighed a good three pounds and ended up with a 4" block of wood after I shaved off all the cavities, rocks and burnt patches. Should be a really striking piece when I'm done though.
