Originally Posted by BillyGoatGruff
Originally Posted by JCMCUBIC
Originally Posted by Kaleb
This may be a dumb question. Do we have any trees in the south east that would be suitable for doing this? It would be cool to have some knives with handles that came off the place but not if they sucked.

I really know nothing about the stabilization process or what makes a good wood for it. If this plays into it or not I can't say, but a local wood that's really hard/tough is Osage or Osage Orange some folks call it. It also has a little different color that might make it unique. Again...I don't know much about it but Osage came to mind.

From what I’ve read and heard not every wood is a good candidate for stabilizing. All you’re doing is replacing the air within the material with resin. If it’s an extremely dense wood supposedly it doesn’t work out as well and/or is unnecessary.

One of these days I’m going to get set up with a vacuum and resin so I can stabilize antler and wood. But that day hasn’t come yet lol.

In that case, Osage would likely suck!