Help me ID this wood

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dizAndyVan

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it's killing me, i need to know what kind of wood is used for the handle for the cue used on the sugar tree custom cues website. I really like the speckled look of the wood

http://www.sugartreecues.com/
 

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It looks like a diseased piece of maple to me. Kind of like a spalted maple. If seen people do that with knife scales before. Stabilizing it is the hardest part.

R,

Greg
 
type of wood?

I agree, it looks like maple that may have had some incect or wood bore infestation.
 
Antfarm said:
It looks like a diseased piece of maple to me. Kind of like a spalted maple. If seen people do that with knife scales before. Stabilizing it is the hardest part.

R,

Greg
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What is stablizing and how does one do that?

Thanks,

Jeff Livingston
 
That is (an excellent piece of) bark inclusion maple.

gr. Dave
 
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12310bch said:
Boke Masserbirch
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Could very well be. Description looks very similar and that type of wood would be readily availble to Eric in the area he lives.

Here is the wikipedia link on spalted trees

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalting

A lot of people (knife makers) will take a spalted wood which is basically just short of rotten and impregnate it with something, often superglue. You have to have an impregnation machine that is basically a sealed vacuum. It sucks all the air out and lets the superglue replace it in the holes of the wood. Makes for an almost indestrctable piece that looks like really highly figured wood.

r,

Greg
 
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