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Offline Rusty Snuffers

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Stabilized?
« on: June 12, 2011, 10:14:00 PM »
What exactly do you guys mean when you say the scales or handle or wood is "stabilized"?  Pardon my newbness...   :D

Rusty
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Offline Ragnarok Forge

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Re: Stabilized?
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2011, 01:22:00 AM »
Stabilization is the use of a vacuum chamber to fully impregnate any open pores in the wood scales with a plasticized polymer.  The finished wood actually feel like plastic. It is totally waterproof and stain proof.  I have seen people advertize cocabolo and ebony scales as stabilized.  You can't stabilize these heavy oil woods.   Shop with care when you are buying "stabilized" wood.
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Offline kbaknife

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Re: Stabilized?
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2011, 08:19:00 AM »
When the last deer disappears into the morning mist,
When the last elk vanishes from the hills,
When the last buffalo falls on the plains,
I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
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Offline Rusty Snuffers

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Re: Stabilized?
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2011, 01:25:00 PM »
Thanks guys!
Black Widow PSA V 48# @27"
Samick Deermaster T/D 50# @28"
Dale Dye Good Medicine 50# @27"
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost."  JRR Tolkien

Offline 75diagg

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Re: Stabilized?
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2011, 08:16:00 PM »
dont you just love these sellers that list stabilized cocobolo,Bacote and such????? Those are the ones to beware of...... these woods need nothing but a good sanding and I polish them just like a silver or gold ring.
Real porous non oily woods need some type of sealer and the vacuum and various plastics and resins do the trick...The vacuum sucks it right into the wood and makes it so to speak water and weather proof.

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