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You're right about being gnarly to work with! I made a set of grips for a S&W .357 out of some. Beautiful, but very hard to work. I ended up doing most of the shaping with coarse sandpaper, as it is difficult to carve smoothly. I actually heard of someone trying to make jelly from the fruit...

Osage orange makes nice re-curve bows for archers. The wood also makes nice pistol grips and knife handles. An interesting note: Osage orange was planted all over the SE USA during WW2. The fruit is a source of natural latex rubber, which was in short supply. By the time the trees were grown...