Registered: 12/03/16
Posts: 1874
Loc: Lake Fork, East Texas
Capt:
With all due respect, I beg to differ with you on the "softness" of Osage Orange otherwise known 'round here as Bois'd Arc or "Boardark".
Attached is a picture of a Boardark post that my Grandfather put in the ground in 1914. As you can see, it is still solid even though the ground around it stays wet 6 months of the year.
You cannot drive a fence steeple into it in fact, you cannot even get a steeple or nail to start. You cannot even scratch it. I have shot it with a .22 and the bullet bounces off it.
Also is a link to some Boardark knife handles. I thought they turned out pretty nice!
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