In your honest or professional opinion which wood or woods would you say are the best as far as looks/longetivity is concerned?
I absolutely adore desert ironwood, birch, snakewood to name a few.
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In your honest or professional opinion which wood or woods would you say are the best as far as looks/longetivity is concerned?
I absolutely adore desert ironwood, birch, snakewood to name a few.
i would start at the wiki
Category:Scale Making - Straight Razor Place Library
but generally speaking looks being obviously subjective i prefer darker woods
I also really love Desert ironwood! And it'll last for ever!
But its rediculously brittle at that thickness (for razor scales) These here i made for a "Hand forged Mussel" from "ERN"
and have already been cracked and re glued together from assembeling... and i had to take the whole thing appart to back the wood with vulcanised fibre. It just looks too beautiful and is to special to throw away!;)Attachment 241987
Is Crosscut D.ironwood Burl...
Yellow heart looks very nice with an oil finish and with a CA finish it looks fantastic. That being said it is also the only wood that I've worked with so far that made my skin itch and made my nose run. Even with that I like using it. A lot of woods look better with different finishes. Ironwood I like without a finish just sanded fine and buffed. Especially ironwood burl.
I like olivewood and ebony.
I like cocobolo or the different rosewood types.
Very oily and easy to work with.
Lignum Vitae
Period end of story :) no really look into it
Other then that I agree with Stefan the Rosewoods are a great choice..
After that it comes down to taste
http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...ae-scales.html
this is what i found about it :shrug:
IMHO spalted maple is stunning, but is so soft that stabilization is required. Runny CA (not the usual thick or gel version) works well for that.
Bocote has interesting - and often unpredictable - grain and so is another fave.