Bubinga wood: African Beauty!
Bubinga is an African wood with a really cool name. Like the kingwood I talked about yesterday, it’s a rare wood that’s used for fine furniture and things like that, but bubinga is also used in bow making because it has a very high strength to weight ratio. It’s nice and light on the handle of a knife, but it’s very hard, and I have to use fresh sandpaper when I’m sanding it on my knife grinder to keep from burning the wood at high speeds.
This wood is going to make a lighter, reddish-brown handle than kingwood from yesterday. It also has strong grain lines, but not […]


