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There are alot of orange knives in this thread! Most of them seem to be folders, plastic or the occasional para cord. However if anyone has fixed blades or even folders I suppose, that they would like to have orange wood on them, I have a decent supply of very old Osage Orange wood. If anyone is interested in acquiring a block or two just contact me, for a trade or money I can mail you a section and you could either craft it to fit your knife yourself, or take it to someone else, I am not comfortable enough yet to say I could do it.
Osage Orange is a very hard and heavy wood, similar to the blackthorn trees in Ireland, Osage Orange is native to the Texas/Oklahoma region, commonly used fence posts, the wood can be outside for a century and show little change, It can make a chainsaw shoot sparks! (The metal teeth heat up the wood, burning it creating a fire-hardened area, which then cause the sparks similar to metal, I actually have a video of a two handed flex disc grinder doing just that)
Below are three photos, the first is the wood with bark, then after I have ground off the bark and lastly after wetting down the wood, to simulate what a finish could do for the wood.
Osage Orange is a very hard and heavy wood, similar to the blackthorn trees in Ireland, Osage Orange is native to the Texas/Oklahoma region, commonly used fence posts, the wood can be outside for a century and show little change, It can make a chainsaw shoot sparks! (The metal teeth heat up the wood, burning it creating a fire-hardened area, which then cause the sparks similar to metal, I actually have a video of a two handed flex disc grinder doing just that)
Below are three photos, the first is the wood with bark, then after I have ground off the bark and lastly after wetting down the wood, to simulate what a finish could do for the wood.
