Snakeskin in plastic - any guesses?

[Meridian Blades]

Anyone seen anything like this before? Looks like hard plastic with the pattern going all the way through... Hmmm

 

[Doug Lester]

Yes, I agree. Hummmm. All sorts of possibilities. What do you know of the product? Where do you get it?

Doug

 

[cwilliams]

Looks kind of like spalted wood that was stabilized and died black.
CW

 

[Meridian Blades]

Yes, I agree. Hummmm. All sorts of possibilities. What do you know of the product? Where do you get it?

Doug

Gee whiz Doug............all these questions...... HAHAHHAHA....
Well I went to one of those estate sales where you see all those old hand tools and cool stuff. My wife was not impressed.....Well there was a few blocks of this stuff and some white plastic stuff looks like delrin I think. I dunno its definately plastic, but I wonder if it can be glued up? I just thought the pattern was cool lookin.......so I got a few of them, and some drum sanders that the guy had that take regular sandpaper. I have never seen stuff like this tho so I thought I would ask you dogs.. Larry

 

[Doug Lester]

Oh, well, worth a try. You didn't say how thick they were. If they're thick enough you could always try to use them in a handle being that you have them.

Doug

 

[Meridian Blades]

Oh, well, worth a try. You didn't say how thick they were. If they're thick enough you could always try to use them in a handle being that you have them.

Doug

I was just giving you a hard time Doug........Thats all i know about them tho. Maybe I will see if I can get epoxy to stick to it... L

 

[GrizzlyKnives]

Looks like stabilized dyed quilted maple.

 

[BossDog]

ask Steve Janik. He has a lot cabinet counter top experience...he should know.

 

[Mike Martinez]

It looks like polyester pearl to me. Just my .02

 

[Taz575]

Yeah, it looks like Poly Pearl type stuff. Masecraft has a lot of stuff like that in their building; some actually have raised texture on it, others is just the coloring. It is fairly easy to sand/buff since it's soft, but it may chip like crazy if you try to turn it.

 

[rhinoknives]

Yes! Taz Has nailed it.

www.masecraftsupply.com/ Has stuff like this an much more.

Laurence

www.rhinoknives.com

 

[Taz575]

I go to Masecraft every few months. I get to hand pick wood, bone, antler, etc!

 

[BladedBonehead]

It is Black Delryn. It has that pearl looking pattern in it...all the colors of delryn are that way. I have a quantity of bright green and a gray as well as the black in my shop[ and they all look like that.