Chisel handle wood, green heart?

> > Hi, Alex,

> > Greenheart is a very heavy, dense timber from Guyana, among other
places. It was used a lot for things like bridges, ship-building, piers,
docks, canal lock-gates etc, because marine borers don't like to eat it.
I'm fairly sure that my uncle had a fishing rod made of split greenheart. No
reason that it wouldn't make good tool handles - it's certainly tough and
durable.

AArDvarK <[email protected]> schreef
> Thanks much! I did my homework on it, it looks like it is the wood I would
choose, he offers to put steel hoops on the handles for another $35 too, I
think I will. This wood is known to explode when kerf hits in and the air
strikes it upon first cut in the mill as I read, very interesting.

> Alex

+ + +
Careful here, greenheart is a trade name, which means it can be used for
more than one wood. The best known greenheart is the Demerara greenheart,
Chlorocardium rodiei (syn Ocotea rodiei) from Guyana (almost exclusively
British Guyana) which is used mostly for marine construction.

A really long way off would be African greenheart, Cylicodiscus gabunensis.

It seems most likely that anybody in Costa Rica would be using a wood grown
locally, which suggests that it concerns a species of Tabebuia, commonly
know as greenheart, aka lapacho, pau d'arco, ipê (in the wreck "ipe"), etc,
etc.
PvR

In article <q%RCc.2829$Ch.394@okepread04>, "AArDvarK" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>http://www.harristools.com/
>
>I was emailing with Harris Tools, Costa Rica, and asked what wood the handles
>are made of on their chisels, he said they ship with either Cocobolo or "Green
>Heart", I cannot find anything about any wood called "Green Heart" on the 'net,
>anyone know what it is? Is there another name for it?
>
>And if it is to be known better, which handles should I choose? My point in
>choice would be for durability, not asthetics.
>
Search for "greenheart" as one word, e.g.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=greenheart+wood

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AArDvarK wrote:

>
> http://www.harristools.com/
>
> I was emailing with Harris Tools, Costa Rica, and asked what wood the
> handles are made of on their chisels, he said they ship with either
> Cocobolo or "Green Heart", I cannot find anything about any wood called
> "Green Heart" on the 'net, anyone know what it is? Is there another name
> for it?

Try "greenheart".

> And if it is to be known better, which handles should I choose? My point
> in choice would be for durability, not asthetics.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Alex

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Hi, Alex,

Greenheart is a very heavy, dense timber from Guyana, among other places.
It was used a lot for things like bridges, ship-building, piers, docks,
canal lock-gates etc, because marine borers don't like to eat it.

I'm fairly sure that my uncle had a fishing rod made of split greenheart.

No reason that it wouldn't make good tool handles - it's certainly tough and
durable.

Cheers

Frank




"AArDvarK" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> http://www.harristools.com/
>
> I was emailing with Harris Tools, Costa Rica, and asked what wood the
handles
> are made of on their chisels, he said they ship with either Cocobolo or
"Green
> Heart", I cannot find anything about any wood called "Green Heart" on the
'net,
> anyone know what it is? Is there another name for it?
>
> And if it is to be known better, which handles should I choose? My point
in
> choice would be for durability, not asthetics.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Alex
>
>


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AArDvarK wrote:

>
>> Search for "greenheart" as one word, e.g.
>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=greenheart+wood
>
> Thank you, I did that in the yahoo search engine and with very vague
> results.

Try google instead. And instead of "wood" try "lumber".
>
> Alex

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Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
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> Hi, Alex,
>
> Greenheart is a very heavy, dense timber from Guyana, among other places.
> It was used a lot for things like bridges, ship-building, piers, docks,
> canal lock-gates etc, because marine borers don't like to eat it.
> I'm fairly sure that my uncle had a fishing rod made of split greenheart.
> No reason that it wouldn't make good tool handles - it's certainly tough and
> durable.

Thanks much! I did my homework on it, it looks like it is the wood I would choose,
he offers to put steel hoops on the handles for another $35 too, I think I will. This
wood is known to explode when kerf hits in and the air strikes it upon first cut in
the mill as I read, very interesting.

Alex

> Search for "greenheart" as one word, e.g.
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=greenheart+wood

Thank you, I did that in the yahoo search engine and with very vague results.

Alex