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I had an amazing day milling this hard maple log. I didn't have a clue what was inside of this log until the first cut. My photos don't due it justice, quilt, curl and some burl.🤯 17" wide boards and lots of smaller ones. The figure went almost to the pith. Only sad thing is it's not mine!

I primarily make pens and always looking for woods I don't already have. I literally have thousands of pen blanks mostly domestic and exotic woods not a bunch of burls. I would like to be able to add some high figured burl wood pens to my offerings. I am open to pretty much anything that has...

I finally located this other piece that I have and so off it goes. This is one premium ukulele billet from my instrument stock with beautiful flame figure, Hawaiian Koa (Acacia koa) from the Big Island. This is the “blonde” heartwood version which has a light yellow-orange hue. Medium...

Looking for some nice small project wood? Here's a box full of thins, cutoffs, inlay pieces, maybe some potential knife handles or pens in here! Leftovers from my now inactive knife scale business. This is also listed on woodnet so when it's gone it's gone I stuffed a large flat rate game...

When I get a chance to do some woodworking, it may be anything that I think would be interesting. I have made furniture, musical instruments (marimba, cajon, canjo), picture frames, a wagon, some turnings (just getting into it more lately), a moxon vise, and other hand tool only projects. The...

I live in Irvine in Southern California and we don't have any native trees really. Mostly we have imported landscaping trees which include a lot of Eucalyptus and sycamore. I got this from a firewood dealer who also chainsaw carves wood, and he walked me around the stacks (which come from local...

I had every intention on picking up some spalted maple for a project but for what they were charging I didn't feel like it was worth it so I headed back over to the pile of curly birch. I grabbed a piece of the birch and figured it's not a day at the lumber shack until I spend $100. I dig...