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Show your Feathersticks

Elms actually pretty soft. Black cherry which I have a lot of my my playground is a bit harder and I find it fairly soft. I'm talking seasoned wood not green wood.

Elm is around 760 on the hardness tests black cherry is around 950 hickory is around 1820

Generally you can feather stick any wood but the hardness really slows the process down and more practice is needed.

Hardwood won't roll and curl as easy as soft wood either so it can be extremely difficult to get fancy looking feather sticks.
 
I'm not sure where seasoned oak is on the hardness scale, but these curls were made out of it.

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SubaruSTi said:
Elms actually pretty soft. Black cherry which I have a lot of my my playground is a bit harder and I find it fairly soft. I'm talking seasoned wood not green wood.

Elm is around 760 on the hardness tests black cherry is around 950 hickory is around 1820

Generally you can feather stick any wood but the hardness really slows the process down and more practice is needed.

Hardwood won't roll and curl as easy as soft wood either so it can be extremely difficult to get fancy looking feather sticks.
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Your right, but on my property the Elm is as hard as we have, and it is all dead standing and well seasoned. And certainly is hard in comparison to the Poplar. I would like to get my hands on some Hickory to test though.
 
I have a lot of dead hickory, it's all being killed by bugs here, not good! I wish I had some softer woods around.
 
Great thread. I noticed that many blades have a patina with a rustic look. Does anyone know how I can do this on my blades?
 
I'll play

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That's my first attempt.

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Switching up my technique a bit


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Close up of what I accomplished. The wood is fresh cut backyard special fresh cut with an sp8. The featherer is a beater rat 1. Could still shave hair off my arm after... Took some effort though.
 
No prob. In the case of the three knives you singled out above, these are actually not forced patinas. These examples are in fact, a result of the individual maker's Heat treat process.

Andy Roy if Fiddleback forge calls his "3-D Spalting"

Another example of his -

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