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All the Lucky Dog knives have full geometry and sharpened edges. Close your eyes and imagine it, because I am not posting a pic.
 
And if you are one of the people who cannot visualize in your mind..... close your eyes and smell it.
 
Yes, black palm. I have a fair bit of it right now.
 
Enough is one of the weirdest words in the lexicon.
 
It's grass!!! I actually only learned this a little while ago conan11 conan11 .

But yes, for simplicity we tend to call it wood. :thumbsup:
 
To quote the botanical professor known as ChatGPT:
Black palm gets called wood, but botanically it isn’t. It’s closer to grass:
  • Palms are monocots (like bamboo and grass), not true trees
  • That means:
    • No growth rings
    • No real grain structure
    • A fibrous bundle structure instead of solid wood
  • The trunk is basically a dense outer shell + soft inner core, not uniform timber

That’s why people say “black palm isn’t real wood”—it behaves differently when cut, turned, or dried, even though we still use it like wood.
 
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