These were not Army-issue but personal guns, a pistol with a carved-wood handle and a heavier handgun, a revolver.

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Cheng admires a carbonized-steel wok with a weighty magnolia wood handle and explains the difference between Shanghainese and Cantonese woks (the Shanghainese are deeper and rounder).

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An American firm, 3D Systems, used one of its 3D printers to print a hammer for your correspondent, complete with a natty wood-effect handle and a metallised head.

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The handle was wood, and the grip was uncomfortably thick, like that of a tennis racket borrowed from an older player.

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The company has signed a deal with Drax Power Station to handle shipments of wood pellets into Immingham, Hull and Goole over a 15-year period.

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