Tulia burl and brass

R Dockrell

R Dockrell

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This ones on its way to the UK.
I love brass and brown colored wood. It was the customers choice.
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Robert
Flat Land Knife Works
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[This message has been edited by R Dockrell (edited 01-16-2001).]
 
I like that wood a lot. In fact, I just bought a big chunk of really nice thuya burl this weekend. Cost me $63, but should be enough to get a few nice blocks out of. I was told that this wood is pretty soft, and is actually in the cedar family, and that it should be stabilized for best results.

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Danbo, soul brother of Rambo
 
Thuya doesn't stabilize particularly well. It oozes resin and oil for weeks afterwards. Most commercial stabilizers don't recommend doing it.

Great looking knife, Robert. What kind of finish is that? (Please don't tell me it's stabilized...
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Jerry Hossom
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Jerry
The thuya I had, I got from a fellow knifemaker. He had sent it away to be stablized.
I do use a lot of stabilized woods that I harvest locally and send away to be comercially stabilized. I know what properly stabilized blocks saw like when you split them for scales with a hacksaw. IMHO this wood was not properly stabilized. When cut the saw dust was moist and stuck together, and the slabs started to ooze sap not stabilant.
Anyways what I did was dry the slabs in the oven at 150F for about 10 hours. Wiping them down every hour with acetone. After the first 7 hours they quit oozing.
After they were pined and glued to the handle and shaped a couple of small spots started ozzing again. I put the knife into the oven again wraping the blade in a wet towel and left the oven door open. 3 hours stopped the oozing. I was satisfied that the handle would ooze no more but left it sit over a hot air furnace vent for two weeks.
I then finished the scales by rubbing them down with 24 hour epoxy cut with acetone. Rub it in wipe it of, rub it in wipe it off, for about 2 hours. Must have at least 40 applications on it. 48 hours later I buffed it with a loss buff at low speed.
It looks like the finish on a Remington rifle stock and the figure of the wood shows thru just fine. You can even see the small holes in the burl eyes thru the finish.
Not stabilized in my books.
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Robert
Flat Land Knife Works
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