Stabilized Wood

[Pack Rat]

Quite some time back a discussion was started about stabilizing wood when some of the guys started replacing handles on 110's and other knives.

Stumps latest project got me to thinking about that old thread so I dug it up and stuck in this link to it. There are also a few other threads back then about stabilizing wood. Easy enough to search for.

Fun reading about it and the amusing antics of the guys then.

Maybe some will find it interesting.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-110-Handles-Scales?highlight=stabilized+wood

 

[300Bucks]

Let me say thanks to you also. We need more of the past info writings. I read it and am thinking I have a piece of Pawpaw wood, won't have much figure but will be opened grained and take a good stabilization. 300

 

[Pack Rat]

300,,,You know where my hunting place is. All that mesquite... I can visualize a cut on the edge of the heartwood...

Stumps could do wonders with it..

 

[Stumps]

Interesting stuff in those old threads. Thanks for the link!!

The Buck 110 I did recently (only the second one I've done with wood) was using very old hardwood. The back and ends are epoxied which would help make it water resistant and the exposed wood has about four coats of Danish oil which penetrates and has some type of hardening resin in it.
I plan on putting a clear poly coat on it at a later date.
This one was not built as a user, so my thinking is that it will be fine.
I do see the wisdom in the way DarrylS stabilized his wood.

Good to see that some of you forum "old timers" are still here.

 

[Pack Rat]

Yeah Stumps. I think your good with the Danish oil. I have used Tru-Oil for similar projects, mostly restoring an old gun stock.

I think the stabilized thread came about after the guys started talking about the glue Buck used back in or near the beginning, and how hard it was to get off the frame. There are some old threads about that as well. And Buck using that glue to actually fill in the gap between handle and bolsters back then. But thats another thread..