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Old 12-02-2013, 12:29 PM
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Question Hawaiian ironwood?

Buying some scales and a hawiian "ironwood" is included in that bunch. I was curious as to if anyone had any pictures or experience with it. Also have been putting my first "real" knife through the paces and have to say I am totally pleased with. Skinned a doe out the other day and it worked like a zipper. Anyways any input would be appreciated. Thanks for your guys time.
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Old 12-02-2013, 12:34 PM
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Never heard of Hawaiian ironwood but I'd be willing to bet a small pineapple that it is probably Koa wood ...


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Old 12-02-2013, 01:04 PM
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Well if that's the case then everything should be pretty straight forward as fa r as finishing goes and as for pictures I imagine google will have a few hundred thousand different ones. Thanks for the quick response ray much appreciated.
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Old 12-02-2013, 01:22 PM
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A quick google search seems to indicate that there are several varieties of Hawaiian ironwood, one of which appears to include koa at least generally. In any case, you'll probably need to wait and see what you actually get as not all pieces of our more familiar desert ironwoods finish exactly the same way (some are dry, some are oily). Being tropical, I'd guess it might tend towards oily which would indicate using an oil based finish and that it would resist stabilizing. But, those are guesses at this point ...


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Old 12-02-2013, 06:06 PM
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I bought some when i was there over the summer and it isnt koawood, i googled it and i think it is some type of coniferous tree there. the local woodworkers i bought it from could only tell me that it is very hard and they use it on things that koawood would be too soft for. Other than that i dont really know what it is.
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Old 12-02-2013, 06:35 PM
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Well AAK is the man with the plan as he is the one I am getting it from. But I will hopefully know more in the next day or two. Along with some black ash burl and some maple burl. Got my cousin started into mangling some steel with me. I need to get back know the kith purely for the learning they provide. Thanks again guys for the input.
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Old 12-06-2013, 10:38 PM
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Hopefully this works but this is the stuff. Going to make a beautiful handle going to have to get busy on a knife worthy of the handle material. But I am curious as to any idea of what species it might be as some of the Hawaiian woods are terribly unstable and I'm really hoping even as hard as it. Seems its not one that is going to warp like crazy if I don't stabilize it and use it. Any help would be great thanks in advance.

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