thought I would try some hurricane/bbq wood

[john keyes]

a chunk of pecan from the storm last year, destined to be smoking wood

no, I did not make the blade, I bought it and forget about drilling more holes in it.
I don't think there is anything in outer space harder than that tang. 







aah, the ultimate in precision





all glued up, the glare is pretty bad



I know the wood is gonna be pretty porous and dry but it should soak up the glue and then the oil pretty good. If it doesn't work, oh well its been a great afternoon.  As soon as it gets later than 6 pm and I know I'm not getting called in to work I'm gonna fire up that pit and smoke some links I made

[Joel]

I've used spalted, stabilized Pecan burl on a few knives and it was really nice looking wood.  When I lived in Virginia, we had a big ol' Pecan and I used to use the branch wood for file handles and other small things.  Still have some files with it.

[john keyes]

the handles were waaaaaaaaay too thick, the grizzly 6x48 was busy for a while..




my sixty dollar belsaw did some work in the tight spots.  I love how I found that machine a block from my house after buying the kalamazoo for $250


needs some stain, too bright




I sanded unevenly to put a little "wavy" contour, I'm pleased

[Don Krag]

That came out pretty nice looking. I've used pecan on small axe handles before with good results.

My parent's house lost a 40 yr old grand magnolnia during Ike. The bottom 3' plus the root ball were spalted and colored greens, puples and pinks. I cut up about 150 lbs of it and have been drying it for a while now. It'll have to be stabilized, but should be pretty cool looking when done.

[Stillhuntn]

That turned out to be awesome looking.
I put one together for a friend that used it to skin caribou and then took it to Afghanistan when he was deployed.
I have one more to finish off.

[BoomLover]

Don Krag, how is that wood looking? Better as it dries? I like your site, nice looking blades! BoomLover

[Joel]

That came out pretty nice looking. I've used pecan on small axe handles before with good results.

My parent's house lost a 40 yr old grand magnolnia during Ike. The bottom 3' plus the root ball were spalted and colored greens, puples and pinks. I cut up about 150 lbs of it and have been drying it for a while now. It'll have to be stabilized, but should be pretty cool looking when done.

Wood can get interesting.  This is some Buckeye burl with all kinds of color and figure.  Didn't look like much on the outside, so it laid around for a good while.

[Don Krag]

Don Krag, how is that wood looking? Better as it dries? I like your site, nice looking blades! BoomLover

It looks pretty cool. I'll have to take some pics of some of it. I cut it into lots of knife handle sized scales and blocks. I recently sanded and polished a couple. It lightened up quite a bit, but has some really nice patterns in it. I figured I'd try some linseed oil, tung oil and a couple other treatments to see what it looks like with each. It's only about as hard as maple sapwood, so I'll still eventually try some stabilization. That usually darkens the wood and brings out the grain as well.

A lot of the mesquites I have are looking real nice after aging for several years. I preferentially cut sections with lots of branch/crotch parts. Several different species, anywhere from pink/brown to deep red/brown and a few that look just like AZ ironwood.