Ayasano
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That is a cross section you are viewing in the picture. It was stated that the knife has wood as part of the handle. So what you are viewing has been cut open to show the internal viewpoint. This can't be machined to produce this effect. I could duplicate it by dropping the knife in molten metal and wait till it solidified. But then the wooden components on the knife would appear burned. Which they are not.
You also are circumventing that this phenomena does occur naturally in nature. I'm not finding the naturally fused objects on Google. But they were presented to us during a lecture in school as a naturally occurring phenomena.
An interesting question is: If the objects were fused, why is none of the white metal present mixed in with the knife? And if it was displaced, where did it go?
As far as producing a completely encased knife, I don't actually see any wood in the photo, just metal.
As you said, evidence of it occurring naturally is not forthcoming. Without being shown the process actually happening, it's just as likely the object you were presented with at school was also a hoax. The only way to be sure would be to actually make it happen in a controlled setting, or at least record an instance of it. The results alone are too easy to fake.