/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2005522
Local- Gidgee, Buloak and Mulga
All of them make superb knife and tool handles, very dry, low oil, ridiculously strong and hard

Unusual- Brazilian Tulipwood and Mexican Bocote
Some of the most striking timbers out of middle and south america, the Bocote is probably the easiest out of the two despite its high oil content but it polishes up naturally really well. Tulipwood has a bit of a problem with splitting sometimes which can lead me to losing my shit

Exotic- Wenge and Gabon Ebony
Neither I would rate as being pleasant to have anything to do as far as working with, but the results are usually worth the effort (and horrific costs)

>>1799245
I make heaps of those little buggers as herb and small vegetable choppers. Lot of the older folks like they because they've got arthritis and its got a good sized handle for gnarly fingers and knuckle clearance they have trouble with using smaller paring knives. These ones I made about 6 months ago out of D6 tool steel, 316SS liners with some crushed turquoise + epoxy. Handles were Mulga and Gidgee from memory.
People seem to love them so I do a run usually in stainless of 2-4 depending on what I've got around, they move real quick

Well, they used to, shits gotten wild in the last 2-3 months so I'm not expecting sales for a while!

Been squeezing in some work around the festy season of events that annoy me.
Couple of really simple, quite handy little veg and herb choppers, in D6 tool steel, around 60-61HRC after 3 x 2hr temper cycles. Handles are a 316SS liner with Mulga (straight grain- long handle) and Gidgee (ringed grain, short handle) handles in gunstock oil finish. Little bit of turquoise along the back of the spine for shiny. Thought I'd save myself some misery and not do any bolsters for these as they're fairly sturdy and wanted to keep a bit of the weight off and the 316 was a real pain in the arse to work with, I'd forgotten just how much of a miserable, tough and ridiculous material it is.
These are relatively small, only a 12-13cm blade, its about 5cm deep which gives some good knuckle clearance

Also got a couple of 7" and a 9.5" kitchen knifes in the works as well. They're going to be a bit "artsy" and have all kinds of uncommon shapes happening there, which will be functionally and you don't see on a kitchen knife very often. But wont be done for a while yet.