Need some help with a Box Elder inlaid Sebenza...

Haze said:
As I understand it the naturally oily woods are not stabilized as they are "stable" enough. IIRC rose wood and ebony would fall into that list, I'm not too sure of the others. :)
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A pretty good way to check is to see if you can feel the grain. If you can, it's not stabilized, because the resin fills in the grain enough to make it feel completely smooth.
 
I thought all of CRK wood inlays were stabilized? Does anyone know which woods are or arent stabilized? I have 2 gabon ebony a mnandi and a small 21 and they seem stabilized and a cocobolo and madagascar rosewood also seemed stabilized
 
I know Cocobolo is not stabilized, confirmed to me by CRK. It is naturally oily and very hard so it holds up well. For a long time many web sites erroneously listed the hardness very low, probably due to a bad number that was propagated without checking. Some web sites are now showing the correct Janka hardness, 2960.
 
Apparantly I can't communicate without picking a fight. So I'm out of this discussion.
 
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LX_Emergency said:
The grain thing is cute, except that some dense woods like snakewood, Gabon ebony and a few others have a grain so fine that it'll look like stabilised wood.
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I can still feel the grain in my Snakewood, my African Blackwood, and other dense grain knives. It's not 'cute', it's accurate.
 
Apparantly I can't communicate without picking a fight. So I'm out of this discussion.
 
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Then which scales are glossy? Snakewood, bocote looks glossy in pics but gabon ebony is more matte.
 
The physical aspects of a wood can't really be judged just by looking at it. It is the natural chemistry of the wood after curing that takes it to the stabilization tank or not. Some people will treat every piece of wood they use to be safe and some will trust the wood to behave as expected.
You can email CRK and they can probably lay it all out for you. Also look at were the wood type comes from. The climate in its natural habitat will give an indication to the woods likely characteristics. :)
 
LX_Emergency said:
Possible, but then it's been poorly polished. Well polished snakewood is almost like plastic.

And polished Gabon ebony is so smooth that people have asked me what kind of plastic is on the knife. Telling them that it's wood blows their mind.

So yeah, I still think is cute.
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So you're telling me my CRK's are poorly polished? Or are you trying to be cute? :rolleyes:

Now if you want to be smart instead, reread my post. I said "A pretty good way to check is to see if you can feel the grain. If you can, it's not stabilized". I didn't say "If you CAN'T feel the grain, it is stabilized", because that wouldn't have been correct. ;)
 
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Apparantly I can't communicate without picking a fight. So I'm out of this discussion.
 
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LX_Emergency said:
I'm not trying to tell you anything. Except that the grain feeling method isn't fool proof.

Woods being a natural product there will be a lot of variation between examples.
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I'm well aware of that. You seem to assume that I know nothing about wood, which is very incorrect. You might also note that I never called it foolproof. If you can't feel grain, that doesn't mean it's stabilized, and I never said it did.
 
Apparantly I can't communicate without picking a fight. So I'm out of this discussion.
 
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Yet you're the one taking offense and getting defensive when no attack was intended. Nevermind me. I'm done.
 
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