Thread: scales

OK, I've seen the fruit, I've seen the tree.
Hell, I've even seen the guitar made from the tree.

Now let's see the scales made from the tree on the razor, next to the guitar. OK, maybe not next to the guitar, but with a blade at least!

C utz

Originally Posted by C utz

OK, I've seen the fruit, I've seen the tree.
Hell, I've even seen the guitar made from the tree.

Now let's see the scales made from the tree on the razor, next to the guitar. OK, maybe not next to the guitar, but with a blade at least!

C utz

I think this is what ur after:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/showthread.php?t=9499

Originally Posted by grottolord

Osage Orange is an American wood
it grows here in Pennsylvania
a thin tree that grows in hedge like configuraions with a big orange sized bumpy fruit.
Nice scales. think illl go find one of those trees right now!!!!!!!!!

Osage orange was very abundant in Nebraska when I lived there years ago. Fence posts used to be made from it. It is my favorite wood.

There is also some exotic wood with the same name, I think Argentine osage orange is one.

Originally Posted by ScienceGuy

There is also some exotic wood with the same name, I think Argentine osage orange is one.

The Argentinian osage is absolutely beautiful wood. Almost snow white sap wood with deep reddish-orange heart wood. Makes great furniture.

Originally Posted by Theseus

The Argentinian osage is absolutely beautiful wood. Almost snow white sap wood with deep reddish-orange heart wood. Makes great furniture.

For some reason it won't let me edit my post so I'll just say that I got my woods mixed up. I was thinking of orange agate wood when I wrote the above. Osage orange is beautiful as well though.

Orange osage is the fancy term for hedge apple. The orange will fade to a brown over time unless you seal it real good, as in epoxy or CA and it will still turn over time. It is a very dense wood and takes a couple years to cure if you are using it in a fireplace. It also burns very, very hot. If you use it in a wood burner without a fire brick bottom, you could bow/melt the steel base. I have cut cords of it and it is murder on a chainsaw. One of the few American woods that will actually throw sparks when you cut it.

Originally Posted by cannonfodder

One of the few American woods that will actually throw sparks when you cut it.

I have seen sparks from Oaks in the sand barrens. Even Basswood in the flood plains! LOL

We were clearing brush one day when I was a kid and had the brush pile so hot from the hedge/Osage wood that we could watch a piece of soft wood melt in front of us!

Dad has always said the same thing about burning hedge in a stove, that it would burn the bottom out.