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Default Best wood candidate for new chisel handles

Sonny wrote:


.... I make handles out of dogwood and mock orange(bowdock)



Maybe mock orange is bowdock, but Osage Orange is bois d'arc
(bodock).

Sonny

Same wood, goes by many names even in my area of the southeast.
Particularly useful for cooking utensils that are going to be put in the
dishwasher.

cheers