On Nov 24, 10:29�pm, Steve Turner wrote:
basilisk wrote:
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.

Most of us here in Texas call it "bodark". �Back in Missouri we called
them "hedge apple trees".

Particularly useful for cooking utensils that are going to be put in the
dishwasher.

Interesting. �I've found the same thing to be true of Honey Locust.