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TLR said:
I understand and agree with you. I'm not arguing whether some don't need to be. My quandary is which ones might I have issues with in my area? Most of my knives are meant to be used outdoors fishing, hunting, and for bushcraft.

To find the ones that are suitable I would need to experiment with different woods to see how they will act. With the amount of beautiful stabilized woods available I don't see it making sense to go through that potentially costly trial and error process.
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weo said:
Me either, but here's my 2 cents from experience with my spalted maple...
Cactus juice works best for punky wood due to the vacuum, whereas K&G's high pressure process will warp or crush softer pieces....

~billyO
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Kevin McGovern said:
K&G uses pressure only? Or vacuum then a soak at pressure?
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Not all wood needs stabilizing, lots of exotics are fine without it

No, K&G's pressure system will not crush punky wood. The wood is first vacuumed out while resin is injected and then the pressure is increased. Punky wood is porous so the air is evacuated during the vacuum, the cells are not crush

K&G uses both vacuum and pressure. If you have questions and concerns about stabilizing i can make a post about that. This is about business advice and what you would like to see on my website.
 
If you want an example of how some woods can hold up as well as stabilized, a good friend of mine is a fishing guide and has 3 of my knives he uses daily. One has yellow Cyprus burl stabilized by K&G, the other two unstabilized pao Ferro. The one he's had the shortest time has still done a full season of saltwater guiding. All the handles are holding up perfectly, and no tang edges showing up as the wood moves. Going between a fishing boat and an apartment daily should be a pretty good test of how stable something is.
 
Greenberg Woods said:
No, K&G's pressure system will not crush punky wood. The wood is first vacuumed out while resin is injected and then the pressure is increased. Punky wood is porous so the air is evacuated during the vacuum, the cells are not crush.
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(Let me know if this is inappropriate due to not related to the original post....)
I sent K&G some of my spalted maple, the soft stuff came back misshapen. On the pieces that had some soft and some solid areas, the solid parts were fine, but the soft portions had cracks and some separation from the solid areas, were depressed (not emotionally) requiring a bunch of sanding to get them flat...
It could have just been the nature of my pieces, but I gave a bunch of the soft stuff to a knifemaker friend because he wanted the soft stuff, not the solid ones and they turned out really nice (IMO). I was a bit upset because I had already thrown a lot of the soft pieces in the wood stove, thinking they were worthless.....
Just my experience.
~billyO
 
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