Our knives are made primarily out of 1084 or 1095 High Carbon Spring Steel. They are hardened typically to 57 - 59 degrees on the C scale. I prefer natural materials over synthetic materials for handles. I do also make my own mosaic pins, generally based on patterns I have seen.
Osage Orange Knife & Sheath
This blade is made of 1084 High Carbon Spring Steel. The blade is 4.25 inches long, 1.25 inches wide, and 0.25 inches thick. The overall length is 8.75 inches, and the weight is 7.6 ounces. The handle is made of Osage Orange scales and the pins are copper. It has a beautiful custom leather sheath made by my lovely wife, Trena. The weight of the knife in the sheath is 11.2 ounces.
Common Name(s): Osage Orange, Horse Apple, Hedge Apple, Bois d’arc
Scientific Name: Maclura pomifera
Distribution: South-central United States
Average Dried Weight: 54 lbs/ft3 (855 kg/m3)
Color/Appearance: Heartwood is golden to bright yellow, which inevitably ages to a darker medium brown with time: primarily due to exposure to ultraviolet light. See the article Preventing Color Changes in Exotic Woods for more details.
Comments: The Osage Orange we are using is from cenral Kansas. Osage Orange has a relatively low modulus of elasticity compared to its weight and modulus of rupture which helps explain why it is sometimes used for archery bows. It’s sometimes called Bois d’arc, which literally means “bow wood” in American French.The wood is also very stable, with little seasonal/environmental movement.
One helpful characteristic that can help separate it from lookalikes such as Mulberry or Black Locust (besides being heavier) is that Osage Orange contains a water-soluble yellow dye, so putting shavings into water will turn the water yellow.
Commonly, the wood of a related South-American species—Maclura tinctoria—is imported as Argentine Osage Orange. This imported wood has the advantage of being available in larger sizes, with boards having less knots and defects than the smaller domestic species, Maclura pomifera. (Though it appears, at least on paper, that Maclura pomifera has a lower modulus of elasticity, making it more flexible—which may be good or bad depending upon the intended application.)
Osage Orange has been shown in studies to produce more BTUs when burned than any other domestic hardwood, and is accordingly sometimes used as fuelwood.
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