Wooden Wednesday - Traditionals only please

waynorth said:
My friend gave me this cool knife from Sheffield! He obtained some wood from London, England, a culled Plane boulevard tree! It was stabilized here in Canada, and he replaced the broken handles with it!! First time for everything!!View attachment 1588006View attachment 1588008View attachment 1588009
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Are you sure that is knife? It looks like a spatula. 😂.

Very handsome wood was used for the recover. In Europe they call the Sycamore a Plane tree. They use the American Sycamore as a street tree frequently because of the impressive size that the trees can reach.
 
Chechen Rosewood

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Boattale said:
Curious now and google can stick it. What's the difference between Grenadil and Ebony? Love that knife BTW.
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Thanks. I only have the one example of grenadil and only a couple in ebony so my sample size isn’t big enough to give you a qualified answer.

What I can say is the ebony I have is dark without much depth or other colors. Just nearly inky black. The grenadil has a lot of browns and lighter shades in it in the sunlight. They both seem very hard and durable.
 
waynorth said:
My friend gave me this cool knife from Sheffield! He obtained some wood from London, England, a culled Plane boulevard tree! It was stabilized here in Canada, and he replaced the broken handles with it!! First time for everything!!View attachment 1588006View attachment 1588008View attachment 1588009
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Are you sure that is knife? It looks like a spatula. 😂.

Very handsome wood was used for the recover. In Europe they call the Sycamore a Plane tree. They use the American Sycamore as a street tree frequently because of the impressive size that the trees can reach.
 
Travman said:
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Very handsome wood was used for the recover. In Europe they call the Sycamore a Plane tree. They use the American Sycamore as a street tree frequently because of the impressive size that the trees can reach.
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Just Tom. said:
Did somebody mention impressively large Sycamore trees?

(knife is 9” long when open)
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It was interesting to me to learn that sycamore trees are used in Europe along streets. Since the beginning of the pandemic, I've walked a lot through various neighborhoods in a 2.5 mile x 2.5 mile square that contains my house. Some of those neighborhoods have several streets lined on both sides with evenly-spaced sycamores, and that sort of "colonnaded street" looks very impressive to me. I'd guess that the neighborhoods were developed in late 1940s and 1950s, so the trees are probably 60-75 years old and quite tall.

Last week, I walked along such a street and noticed that, as usual, the trees were growing in the grass strip between street and sidewalk, but on this particular street, that grassy strip was only about 3 feet wide. So as the sycamores grew, they eventually started pushing both sidewalk sections and curbs out of position. That did not look as appealing as sycamores growing along streets with a wider grassy strip!

- GT
 
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