All About Pocket Knives

toomanyknives wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:02 pm

QTCut5 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:55 pm OK wood experts...can you identify the different types of wood used on these Queen mini trappers just by looking at this photo?

Annnnndddd.... I'm out!

Incredible knives though, ~Q~!

Jacknifeben wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:36 pm Got any wood like this?

QTCut5 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:56 am Kershaw 4150 Wild Turkey clad in Cocobolo

Gtrclktr-351 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:41 pm IMG_2256.jpeg

Parker USA mini stockman 2.75 inches closed

toomanyknives wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:41 pmThat's a purty little feller, GTR! Nice handles.

QTCut5 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:05 am A little more Osage orange, aka Bois d'arc, with a slightly different color...and a bit of interesting history gleaned from the interweb for the hardcore woodworkers, xylophiles and dendrophiles among us


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In early geologic time there were many species of the Osage orange family. Today, however, it stands alone as the only tree in the world that is the sole species in a genus.

Fossils indicate that Osage orange (Maclura pomifera) once grew naturally well outside its native range of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Missouri, and Arkansas. Then it retreated, perhaps ahead of advancing glaciers. Thousands of years later, because it was cultivated and planted by settlers as inexpensive fencing, it once again spread. Now, you may even find Osage orange growing in the eastern states and well into the Great Plains.

Wherever Osage orange grew, it had many a use. At one time, a Plains Indian brave would gladly trade a horse and blanket for a bow made of the wood. The reputation of such bows spread widely from the land of their makers-the Osage Indians of Arkansas and Missouri. Bows of this hard, strong wood even were found by explorers in use as far north as Montana. That's why in many parts of the nation the wood carries the name bois d'arc, French for wood of the bow. Americanized, the term becomes bowdark.

Harder and stronger than even white oak, Osage orange was once cut for railroad ties. While other woods for ties lasted but a few years, Osage orange served for 20! And many a Midwestern farm still has fence posts of the wood in place after a century.

Because of Osage orange's hardness and durability, it often was used for wagon wheels. Highly decay-resistant, it was even laid as paving blocks. In today's world, however, the wood is scarce as lumber. Yet sanded smooth and oiled, Osage orange beats all others for cutting boards that will stand up to a blade.

https://www.woodmagazine.com/materials- ... age-orange

ashwinearl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:50 am Some recent builds of mine with wood scales

ashwinearl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:50 am Some recent builds of mine with wood scales

ashwinearl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:50 am Some recent builds of mine with wood scales

Ivoryman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:42 am

ashwinearl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:50 am Some recent builds of mine with wood scales

Looking good, these all look fabulous, great work bud, and I really like the ODGreen real lambs foot you sold me. Grest knife. Keep them coming, I looked in your store to find another sweetie but there are none, guess you're sold out. No suprise there. Thanks again.

ashwinearl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:49 pm The one downside of being hobbiest, and very slow is inventory. Somewhere soon I need to figure out some more efficient methods, if I ever want to realize any future goal of a more realistic business.

ashwinearl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:50 am Some recent builds of mine with wood scales

ashwinearl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:49 pm

Ivoryman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:42 am

ashwinearl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:50 am Some recent builds of mine with wood scales

I'm just glad to see more makers like yourself, bringing great knives to the marketplace, blessing more buyers with their products, enriching the knife world and giving us beauties to use and great heirlooms. Thanks again for the one you made me, I will always love it and remember you for it. Keep up the great work.

QTCut5 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:45 pm Rigid and Beretta Trident clad in cocobolo covers

MoriartyD2 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:07 pm Komwero modern Damascus VG10 core sandalwood scales. Out of a modest collection of knives that's the only one I have with wood scales. Now, that's not because I don't like wood scales, it's because most of the knives I buy don't come with wood scales and I haven't advanced enough to make my own...yet I have learned how to dye micarta and G10 Next is making my own scales!