Spalted Tamarind or Spalted Pecan

Hi,

I really love the looks of knife handles made out of these, can't find any online though, especially not with the known vendors on this forum.


Any idea where I could find any that has been stabilized properly?

I've bought some tamarind from Dream Burls in the past. Very nice.

What's great about the vendors on the forum is that they are totally approachable. Shoot a PM to them and ask if they can get you what you want rather than just looking at the online inventory.

Here is some spalted pecan

Castalia said:

Here is some spalted pecan

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I guess there "was" [emoji22]

Texas woodcraft . net has a couple pieces of spalted pecan. You can usually find some spalted tamarind on eBay. that's where I ordered mine.

Here is another try for the link
http://www.texasknife.com/vcom/product_info.php?products_id=11174

alterwisser said:

Hi,

I really love the looks of knife handles made out of these, can't find any online though, especially not with the known vendors on this forum.


Any idea where I could find any that has been stabilized properly?

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You haven't asked all the vendors, yet

Stefan

I'm looking forward to hearing all the options you have Stefan, it'll be pretty tough to choose for the remainders. Got some sugi, bog oak, Norfolk Pine, Hawaiian Signature Tree… two remain

apicius9 said:

You haven't asked all the vendors, yet

Stefan

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Matter of fact, I have asked none yet. I should start with my fellow countryman them, you suggest? [emoji6]

I got some awesome spalted tamarind from Myron at Dream Burls a few years back.

Sorry if I am telling you or everyone something that is already known but since eBay was mentioned; I will say there is a lot of good looking stabilized wood on eBay. A lot of what I am saying now is reiterating what is in Dave's "Wood's I Use for Handle Q&A". First, a lot of handle making vendors here won't used wood from eBay because of the questionable quality of stabilization. A lot of people can build wood stabilization setups of varying quality or soak wood in Minwax High Performance Wood Hardener and call it "Stabilized" on eBay. Second Spalted wood is rotting wood, so stabilization is extremely important when come to Splated anything. No one wants to get into mounting the scales or sanding to have the piece of wood fail.

I have ordered some wood off "reputable" eBay vendors but have yet to use it for handles or sayas.