what wood nunchaku is least likely to break

[danceswithsticks]

hey guys and gals, i know i have broken a few chucks over the years. i am wondering if some woods get destroyed  more under the strain and shock of hard chucking? you know weapon on weapon impact. then the learning curve in freestyle leads the chucks to the floor, some times at mach V!!! even worse when we get faster as speed on impact is a very destructive force. any way i hope this poll will help us not throw good money after bad!

[Choggy]

Damn Ben, I'd love to say I have a pair of each 

[danceswithsticks]

Damn Ben, I'd love to say I have a pair of each 

indeed!! i don't have many[about 11 different woods]but. i have an semi-addiction for 'rare/exotic' wood chucks..... & i hate wasting good money!!

[Levi]

it is better for me not to vote cause i just have oak and Zebrawood.
and they are not yet destroyed...not even scratched ...oook maybe they are a bit 
so it is better not to vote.Im not good at wood
I encourage all who knows a little about wood to vote.I will check this topic often.
Great idea Ben for this awesome topic.+karma 
 

[RYOUKAN]

From Google search.
Lignum Vitae is considered the hardest commercial wood. With a hardness of 4500 it is roughly three and a half times as hard as red oak. This wood is not only extremely hard, but it is also extremely heavy, with a specific gravity over 1.0 it will sink in water.
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 The World's Hardest & Heaviest Wood

Most of the other remarkable plant records go to the flowering plants. This is not surprising since flowering plants have colonized practically every conceivable habitat on earth, from vast submarine meadows in oceans and bays to arid deserts and windswept alpine summits. At least a dozen species of flowering trees called "ironwoods" hold the title of world's heaviest wood. Wood is composed of dead cells of a tree trunk, particularly the inner xylem tissue when the bark is removed. The weight of wood is essentially due to the cellulose and lignin in the cell walls of billions of cells. Ironwoods all have wood with very dense, heavily lignified cells with little or no air spaces in the cell cavities (lumens). The pure cell wall material has a specific gravity of about 1.5, and the heaviest and hardest ironwoods approach 1.4. Since pure water has a specific gravity of 1.0, ironwoods with specific gravities greater than 1.0 will sink in water. Certainly one of the world's heaviest and hardest ironwoods is the Caribbean tree called lignum vitae (Guaiacum officinale), with a specific gravity of 1.37. The name lignum vitae means "wood of life," owing to the medicinal properties of the sweet-smelling resin. The density and high resin content of the wood make it extremely resistant to friction and abrasion and account for its remarkable self-lubrication properties. Under certain conditions it actually wears better than iron. In fact, the highly-prized wood was used for end grain thrust blocks which lined the propeller shafts of steamships. [Note: The Guinness Book of World Records lists the South African black ironwood (Olea laurifolia) as the heaviest wood with a specific gravity of 1.49. This is rather doubtful since the specific gravity of pure cell wall material is 1.5 (i.e. without any cellular structure), and samples of Olea laurifolia I have tested only weighed in at about 1.11.] By way of contrast, cork bark from the European cork oak (Quercus suber) has a specific gravity of 0.24; and the tropical American balsawood tree (Ochroma pyramidale) is one of the world's softest and lightest woods with a specific gravity of only 0.19.
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[Levi]

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[Yetibutt]

Hardness and weight are not measures of durability.  A dense hard wood can be very brittle.  Ash has excellent shock resistance, in spite of being a lighter wood.  Ash is used in baseball bats and in many tools due to its resiliency, and was the wood of choice for the Vikings when making spears and axe handles.  I have two pair of ash that I have gotten pretty beaten up, including from a lot of striking (not just drops).  They have dings, but have not broken. 

I have four pairs of white wax wood, and have broken them all on multiple occassions.  Even so, they are all at least five years old and lasted a long time.  I have also been able to glue them all back together, so all four are still in use.  Mostly the breaks are at the top where the wood is thinner.  I always wrap the tops of all my cord chucks in electrical tape now to protect them from drops.

I have a couple pairs of Brazillian Cherry that have held up well, although the ends are a bit chipped up from strking.  They are a good mix of hardness and resiliency if you are looking for a heavier wood.

All the nunchaku that I have broken beyond repair are of unknown hardwood.  Also, aside from Ash, white wax wood, and Brazillian Cherry, I don't know what my nunchaku are made of.  I do have a pair of cocobolo, but they are my 2007 chuck off trophy chukcks, so I never use them, they are just for looking at

[shiryu400]

I broke white oak and jatoba. The oak was from a bokken and not from a nunchaku. It broke when I was hitting a stack of magazines on the ground with a downward strike. The jatoba nunchaku I broke by hitting another cheaper (but thicker) nunchaku.

[Levi]

  I do have a pair of cocobolo, but they are my 2007 chuck off trophy chukcks, so I never use them, they are just for looking at

haha ^^
Great review  thx

[RYOUKAN]

What about high impact hickory?
http://www.bukikan.com/hickoryInfo.php