Sandblasting Wood handles "Medual ray"

Greenberg Woods

Greenberg Woods

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Hey guys, As some of you know ive been working with a lot of Leopard wood burl recently. Leopardwood has large cells called Medullary rays, these produce the pattern we know on leoparwood as well as what makes quartersawn oak have the flecked appearance.

As some of you may know, the medullary rays are slightly harder than the rest of the wood, and if you see an old oak in the woods, you may notice it has almost a textures surface where the wood has worn away leaving the medullary rays proud of the surface.

I was wondering if, using leopard wood burl you could reproduce this effect with sand blasting.

I was wondering if there was anyone with a blasting cabinet interested in trying this out.

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Is lacewood the same? I could blast some of that tomorrow.
 
All wood has soft and hard rays that run through it. You will get different patterns with different woods, but a light sandblast might make an interesting effect and give a courser contact area for the hand as well.
 
golfer1 said:
All wood has soft and hard rays that run through it. You will get different patterns with different woods, but a light sandblast might make an interesting effect and give a courser contact area for the hand as well.
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Yes, all wood have rays, but in something like lace or leopardwood they are HUGE in comparison to something like maple, and the hardness difference is greater.
 
have you guys seen this being done with bog oak? specifically with handmade pipes? Its pretty cool stuff
 
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