Pard gave me a chunk of wood I’m gonna use for some handles and give some to jelky etc. it’s a Hawaiian wood called keawe, “key ahh vey”, very hard dense stuff, no fancy grain, but cool coloring. Anyhow let me know who I can send er off too. 👊🏻

K & G

http://www.kandgstabilizing.com/sending-in-wood.html

Hell ya Jeff, thanks. I’ll get er on the table saw👍

Good to know, thanks Jeff

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’m sure you do kaleb. I brought this back from Hawaii, my pard I run with back there gave it to me, so I figured I’d have a couple knives built and give the rest to my makers/buddy’s that wanna use some. Never been to Tennessee but I’m sure you guys got some cool hardwoods.👍

I look forward to seeing how this turns out for you. Really cool idea.

If you are willing to stabilize, about anything can work.
Spalted wood is just Doty wood. Caught before it goes too far
and made sound with epoxy resin.

I've seen stabilized corncob used.

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.

You planning in using the cactus juice, or a thinned epoxy.

I've researched it out of curiosity, but never did it either.

I think a yard sale pressure cooker and a Harbor Freight vac pump
would do the job as a foot getting wet setup.

Cactus juice I’d imagine

In that case, Osage would likely suck!