Registered: 09/25/13
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It all depends on the processing of oak, it unfortunately, often cracked due to temperature and humidity changes. And it's still bad to make hilt of complex shape - SFG and FG, in the case where the fibers are straight (as on lignum vitae). Here the fibers are curved, everything will be fine
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