stabilized wood

Hello everyone, my name is Ben Greenberg. You may know me, i run Greenberg Woods. For about a decade, i have specialized in selling rare, exotic and figured woods mostly to knife and handle makers. I also just love to talk about wood, stabilizing, figure, woodworking, and everything else...

Hello all, I'm halfway through stabilizing about 10lbs of maple burl destined to become handles. I cured the first half yesterday and could resist making one right away. This handle is 123mm long, 18mm X 21mm at the top tapering from 22mm X 24mm at the bottom. The handle has been oil finished...