Clutch Mods

Stabilized wood that is to be used for knife handle material, pen cases, and v**e boxes. It is wood that has been impregnated with a chemical stabilizing solution. This stabilized wood can then be worked with normal wood working tools. Cutting, shaping and sanding will be similar to working with a dense hardwood.

Stabilizing is a proccess of infusing the pores and grain structure of wood with one of several differant chemicals. This basically turns the wood into a plastic. Untreated wood will over time shrink, expand, swell, absorb water, darken, crack, check, warp, and do many other nasty things. Stabilized wood will stay just as it was on the new knife.

Burl is a term meaning that the wood has a swirling grain stucture. This normally occurs where the grain structure branches off, such as in crotch sections and root structures.

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