Dymonwood

It wont shrink as much as normal wood,it wont soak water,and you dont have to treat it with oil or whatever you use.
I've made a few knifes with dymondwood, but I haven't done a fieldtest on it. So far it has kept what the maker has promised.
 
I've also made a few knives using dymonwood and got to wondering how they would do out in the weather.
 
Dymondwood is the mainstay of my handle material...it's good-looking, tough, and doesn't require all that much care.

As far as the water-tightness of buffed dymondwood, I made a buddy of mine a filet knife with dymondwood scales. He promptly dropped it in the nearby lake and mourned its loss. His son, a SCUBA diver, suprised us all by finding it some weeks later. The blade was beginning to corrode (took some hellacious buffing to get THAT ship-shape again), but the scales hadn't so much as raised grain yet! I buff it up with white compound, and let it go, usually.

Hope this helps out some.


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