padauk

I bought a small board of this dense old growth padauk from Rick Hearne many years ago and found it again a couple of weeks ago. I cut orders from it for other clients but had a small section left. Shown below are three pieces that measure 1.5 x 1.5 x 6 that would be good for game calls or...

Ok so here's the process on how I first started to make a mallet. I started out with a chunk of cherry. My bandsaw blade guide bearing pooped out, so, I went old school and sawed it up by handsaw... As @Don Ratcliff noted, my cut line was off, but that's only because my buddy James was...

I'm looking for, perhaps futilely so, some boards of the rare Andaman Padauk (Pterocarpus dalbergioides). My understanding is that it used to be available about 30 years ago, but hurricanes all but wiped them out on the Andaman Islands, where they only exist. Or anybody got any ideas on leads...