mulberry for grips

[golfer1]

I have a nice mulberry tree with multiple blister like burls which might make some nice grips. Has anyone used Mulberry wood on their knives before?

 

[Britt_Askew]

My experience with mulberry is sunlight affects it more than any other wood I have worked with. Wood is yellow when fresh cut but when exposed to sunlight will turn a root beer color. I have never used it on a knife but I am thinking after years pass the sides could be different colors (the handle against the sheath/body will get less light than the outside) Would stabilizing stop the uv light issue ? I dont know

 

[Greenberg Woods]

My experience with mulberry is sunlight affects it more than any other wood I have worked with. Wood is yellow when fresh cut but when exposed to sunlight will turn a root beer color. I have never used it on a knife but I am thinking after years pass the sides could be different colors (the handle against the sheath/body will get less light than the outside) Would stabilizing stop the uv light issue ? I dont know

No. Stabilizing would not fix the color in any way. The resin used is nearly completely transparent in the UV spectrum and thus would provide no protection.

Mulbery is a decent enough wood. Nothing superb, but it will certainly work.

I can also tell my favorite mulberry based fact! When the Mongol army under Gengis Khan attacked the great city of Merv in modern day Turkmenistan, there were no boulders for their siege engines to launch, and so The Great Khan ordered the mulberry orchards cut down and and to raze the walls with mulberry logs.

 

[Alpha Knife Supply]

We sold stabilized mulberry burl. It is a nice looking wood.

Ben is correct, we had our mulberry stabilizing by K&G and it did not keep the wood from darkening.

Chuck