Laminates,,,,, Here is a response from CJ some time back in a thread
about Fibron... Maybe relates to dymondwood.. Just a curious FYI thing.
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I don't remember the exact year but seems like 97 or 98. They were supposed to be for a subsequent year but we were so excited about the design we pressed them into that current year's new products.
As to Fibron...that was a brand name for the laminated/impregnated birch handles. We use the same material basically from a different source today. ..
The process is very similar to making plywood. You start with sheets of Birch veneer. Then you put those sheets in a vacuum chamber and flood the chamber with resin (and color). The resin is thus sucked into every pore and stabilizes the wood, protecting it from heat and water. The wood acts like the fiber in fiberglass and gives a supporting structure for the resin.
Then you put those resin impregnated sheets under heat and pressure. The resin remelts and welds the sheets together. Based on how you stack them you can get multi-colored effects and if there are contours on the handle it can be a very attractive look. With a 110 being so flat the vendor creates a special top layer for the handle insert and when we switched from real Ebony the impregnated wood consistently looked more like real wood then real wood.
Better look and Better Performance was a no brainer.