Vintage Composite Wood - 3 Long Pieces, $50 for all

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These pieces came from the estate of knifemaker Ted Dowell.
I believe it is Dymondwood or a similar product. The rough edges that I trimmed away were paper thin slices of veneer that stacked in layers light, dark and keeps repeating. I think they were trying to make it look like Rosewood.
These pieces are hard and heavy and smell like micarta when you cut them.
The narrow piece is 12" long x 1&3/8" x 1&3/8". The other 2 pieces are 12" long x 1&7/8" x 1&3/8".

Cost for the 3 of these is $50 + $6 USPS Priority Mail Shipping in a legal flat rate envelope.
They are too heavy for international flat rate so shipping outside the US would cost almost as much as the wood.

I am not willing to cut these into scales.
Just selling them cheap because I told Mrs. Dowell that the handle material would all go to knife makers and not get wasted.

Payment needs to be with Paypal within 24 hours. The address to use for paypal is burlsource@burlsales.com
If you want these, just post I'll take them here in this thread.

In real life these look a bit more of a reddish/orange.

 

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This is a close-up of the rough edge I trimmed away.

One of the knife makers mentioned that Westinghouse made a wood grain micarta.
I don't know if that is what this is or not.
These pieces weigh just over 4 pounds all together.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Mark, I'll take them.


A few years ago I bought about 20 pounds of that stuff from the estate of a cutler. He made kitchen knives. I call it "Cutlery Plywood". It appears to be some sort of rosewood cousin veneer phenolic laminate. Used with the grain vertical, the handles look like regular wood ( as your photo shows).

If you look in the kitchen drawer, many of the older commercial paring and other kitchen knives in your knife drawer with "wooden handles" may actually have this material.

 

[mete]

You normally can ID phenolic resin from the smell of formadehyde but the old stuff probably has already outgased.
At one time I had some laminate that was also compressed and made a very strong and heavy wood.

 

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They are yours Stacy.
I sent a paypal request.
Thank You

 

[HHH Knives]

Dang. sorry I missed this stuff. The last stuff I got from you that is similar but made from ebony is amazing!!! Good score Stacy!

 

[Cartophilis]

ive got some of that.. came out of a oil transformer from a TVA plant....told it was Teak ...