October 2, 200619 yr Has anyone tried using diamond willow as a knife handle? Or would the wood be too stringy? Thanks, Ryan
October 5, 200619 yr Almost any woods can be stabilized and work just fine for handles on knives. It is a process taht sucks the air out of the material and then a material is pressured into all the voids. I have used quite a bit of redwood and it is not useable any other way. I have not seen any home dome stuff that matches what the pros do. (that should get a lot of replies)
October 8, 200619 yr Stabilizing wood isn't really all that difficult. It takes a vacuum pump, bell jar or vacuum-tight container, and a sizeable quantity of cyanoacrylate ester (superglue). Dunk the wood in a container of cyanoacrylate and pull a vacuum on the whole works. You don't need a .00000001 millitor vacuum; one of the small pumps used by air conditioning repair places will do just fine. Hold the vacuum for a few minutes to a couple of hours, depending on the thickness of the wood and the density. The vacuum sucks all the air out of the wood, and it is replaced by the cyanoacrylate, which stabilizes it. The same thing can be done even better with methylmethacrylate, but it costs way more.
October 8, 200619 yr I use only stabilized on my knives. Tried doing it myself, just not happy w/ the results versus commercial vendors. The best I have used came from WSSI. I send my wood to them and get it back in a few weeks all done. No muss, no fuss that way and it is done right.Wood Stabilizing Specialists, Int'l., LLC | Product Overview
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