RM Kiln dried oak

[salad]

Hi

The new RM knife is using kiln dried Oak, would this be better than seasoned Oak ?
http://www.raymears.com/Bushcraft_Product/743-The-Ray-Mears-Bushcraft-Knife/

Your thoughts gentelmen

 

[Silverback 1]

The choice of the new scale material for the Cox/Woodlore Bushcraft knife MK2 is causing quite a stir on the other channel.
Personally speaking i can't believe that they have gone down this route after the disasterous problems with the original product.
Oak is well known for its adverse reaction to carbon steel (i have one) and they are marketing the knife with no synthetic/fibre liners????
Watch this space.

 

[Dougster]

Or avoid all the fallout and look in completely the opposite direction. I am.

Daft, and they look poorly finished. Which is a shocker for SWC.

 

[FGYT]

The choice of the new scale material for the Cox/Woodlore Bushcraft knife MK2 is causing quite a stir on the other channel.
Personally speaking i can't believe that they have gone down this route after the disasterous problems with the original product.
Oak is well known for its adverse reaction to carbon steel (i have one) and they are marketing the knife with no synthetic/fibre liners????
Watch this space.

the epoxy glue will be enough to seperate the steel and the oak

Hi

The new RM knife is using kiln dried Oak, would this be better than seasoned Oak ?
http://www.raymears.com/Bushcraft_Product/743-The-Ray-Mears-Bushcraft-Knife/

Your thoughts gentelmen

Kiln dried is just forced seasoning and how most wood is done in the commercial world it also can get a lower moisture content than natural drying

the wood does look particularly drab tho you can get a nice effect with oak if you try and get it cut right etc

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43701

Nice tho how on the SWC website he does a Woody clone to the Woodlore pattern for £155 the basic no extra Scale choice is oak

Order book is closed for a while tho

ATB

Duncan

 

[Silverback 1]

the epoxy glue will be enough to seperate the steel and the wood

I bow to your vastly superior knowledge in the knife making dept,was only going on my experience with my own oak scaled and 01 tool steel knife compared to a similar one i have with micarta scales and fibre liners, any sweat and or dirt when using the former just seems to react a lot more quicly with the carbon steel blade.

 

[Siberianfury]

not bothered about the handle material, just with they would get rid of that massive choil and let the edge run closer to the handle.

 

[HillBill]

Gotta agree with that one Josh.

not bothered about the handle material, just with they would get rid of that massive choil and let the edge run closer to the handle.

 

[Chris the Cat]

What it is NOT, is stabilised oak.
( Nor are the handle scales on my fav. knife, but considering the probs Woodlore have been having with the last batch....)
Chris.

 

[Retired Member southey]

I think it looks great, Oak is a stunning wood with a lovely feel. lovely.

 

[salad]

I have been reading lots of peoples concerns over on our other favourite channel , but if I am honest those concerns are making want to get one just to see for myself , ermm now thats just weird, I think being a Brit abroad makes me long for some English wood in my hand ermm this is not sounding quite right

 

[Gill]

I would agree with Dunc , the epoxy is between the oak and steel so there should be no probs .

 

[stuey]

Kiln dried is just forced seasoning and how most wood is done in the commercial world it also can get a lower moisture content than natural drying

Unless the timber has been acclimatised following kiln drying it will still be prone to movement (expansion) while it comes up to "normal" moisture content following kilning. Even then with any change of climate it will still be prone.
Oak is well known for being a "mobile" wood unless it is utterly ancient and well acclimatised. I would be nervous of using it on any production knife unless it had been stabilised.