your top 3-5 WOOD for handles

PARKERKNIVES said:
While we are talking about wood from Australia heres my list. 1. Ringed Gidgee 2 Lace sheoak, 3 PNG black wood,not exactly Aust but close enough,4 Boyakker, 5 western myerl, 6 Ringed Boonaree, 7 Bimbelbox , 8 Aust Purple heart, 9 Belah, 10 Jara. Note no cracked up eucalypt rubbish,we send all of that over to you Yanks,or throw it on the fire. :)
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Parker when you get ready to throw away all that "rubbish" you let me know. Especially that awful red morrell and red mallee burl.... I will PM my address to you for garbage pick up anytime your ready mate....;)

Larry
 
My list includes the following.
1a. Desert Ironwood Burl
1b. 100 year old Osage Orange (Rare and hard to find)
2. Red Cedar Burl
3. Cocobolo High Figure
4. Mesquite Burl
5. Box Elder Burl
6. Wild Olive Wood
If anyone finds any of the old Osage Orange, like from an old barn I will gladly take it off of your hands.
Curtis Wilson
 
cwknifeman2026 said:
My list includes the following.
1a. Desert Ironwood Burl
1b. 100 year old Osage Orange (Rare and hard to find)
2. Red Cedar Burl
3. Cocobolo High Figure
4. Mesquite Burl
5. Box Elder Burl
6. Wild Olive Wood
If anyone finds any of the old Osage Orange, like from an old barn I will gladly take it off of your hands.
Curtis Wilson
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This red cedar burl, what's it like? Is it from the Western Red Cedar tree (Thuja Plicata) or something else. I would never have though that red cedar would hold up in knife handles.

I have a handle of old osage orange. It's on my great-grandfather's butcher's cleaver. The blade is a little worn from decades of hard use, but the handle is near-perfect. Impressive stuff.
 
Hello:

I am very fond of and use alot of:

Burmese Blackwood
Kingwood
Various Coco-Bolo

I use the following cause they will sell very fast

Pupleheart
Tulipwood
English Walnut
Circassian Walnut

NVHammerHead
 
i just got my hands on some really nice spalted osage orange. very very nice. thanks marekz
 
marekz said:
i just got my hands on some really nice spalted osage orange. very very nice. thanks marekz
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Because of it's resistance to decay I'd not think true Osage Orange heartwood would spalt as "spalt" is the incipient stage of decay...before the wood fiber gets soft. Sapwood could for sure. Most unique...got a photo???
 
oh by the way my uncle in texas just torn down an old barn--200+ years old made out of osage orange. thanks marekz
 
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