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The catalog lists diamond wood as dyed American hardwoods, so I'd say that it is not authentic cocobolo. It is resin impregnated which means that it is saturated with a plastic material. Which means it's impervious to darn near everything and absolutely stable. The cocobolo wood that they list is not stabilized, and being that it is of the rose wood family, I don't know that it can be stabilized. It may be too oily but people who have used it will have to fill you in on that. Remember that stabilization is not the end all and be all of handle material. There have been wood handle that have stood up to hard daily use for years without being stabilized and some woods just are so hard and/or so oily that they don't need stabilization. Some woods and some other materials do benifet from the process or even unsuitable for handles if not stabilized.
Doug Lester
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