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  1. 2nd August 2006, 11:24 PM #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirboo
    Bootle's "Wood in Australia, 2nd Ed." lists Crow's ash, brush box, coachwood, mararie and satinay as being good timbers for use as chisel handles.
    Crow's ash makes a nice feeling tool handle, a bit on the heavy side, BUT, if you drive something sharp into the end grain, it splits for miles.

    I have made some very nice awls out of it but then split the handle half the lenght of the tool driving a concrete nail into a predrilled hole.
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    I think Bodgys right

    Ive got some in Tuart and some in Jarrah... best woods for hard hittin things I reckon
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    Bodgy,
    We like box wood.
    woody U.K.

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