My Best Stabilized Koa Blocks

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Today I finished adding a couple dozen more blocks of stabilized Koa to our web store.
Some of these are the best figured Koa blocks that I can remember seeing. Many of them are large enough to be used on fighters and other large handle knives. This is not the sort of wood you would want to use on all your knives. But if you have a really important project coming up, why not use the very best handle material you can find. Prices on these blocks range from about $60 to $100+.
The photos give you an idea how nice these blocks are, but are nothing compared to how they will look in person in direct light.
If you get one or more of these blocks, I am so sure you will love them that they come with a no questions asked, money back guarantee.

Click on the photo to go to the Stabilized Koa Blocks section of our web store.

 
Thanks Mark, these are beautiful. They most definitely do not disappoint. I was lucky enough to be able to grab one of these for a special customer, and one for myself, but it will be some time before I have the nerve to cut into one of them, which is perfectly fine by me, because I get to look at them from time to time in the interim.
 
Mark , at a time when I started to sell tooling to woodworkers in Hawaii I knew nothing about Koa. I would ask 'what's Koa ? ' Typical answer , 'Koa is ,well, Koa ' Big help ! Yours must be Super Koa !
BTW, what's the word woodworkers use to describe the technique to bring out the grain so it looks like three dimensinal ?
Koa is in the Acacia family and they can have very nice grain.
 
Thanks for the kind words Ted.

Ian,
After seeing what you did with the Redwood, I think you will do just fine with the Koa.
I would suggest the same method for finishing but use some danish oil before the paste wax.

mete said:
BTW, what's the word woodworkers use to describe the technique to bring out the grain so it looks like three dimensional ?
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I am not sure about what the technique is called. But the characteristic in the wood for the moving, metallic, 3 dimensional look is called chatoyance.
It is a word borrowed from gemstones like tigereye, star rubies and other stones that show a pattern that moves kind of like a hologram.
 
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