Darkmoorwoods said:
I agree. I'm sure this fellow has looked at the same pricings references as the rest of us. Sounds like he is pretty much asking retail. Unless you find a really special piece, it doesn't sound like a great deal.....
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I agree. I'm sure this fellow has looked at the same pricings references as the rest of us. Sounds like he is pretty much asking retail. Unless you find a really special piece, it doesn't sound like a great deal.....
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He seems steep on his pricing the 2 times I went down and saw him. He does however have a 5-6' Cocobolo log that is 14" in diameter. It has some checking in the middle but I think overall is fairly solid. He was asking alot for it though. I think he said just shy of $1000.
Check out Atlanta Hardwoods for prices, too. Hardwoodweb.com is their site. You will need to call, email, or go by to see prices. They're really easy to get to, though.
I think I would pick a few pieces for a nice package deal and make a offer. I know it works on me, I have a buyer that when he comes is always good for a pickup load of my native hardwood. It is much easier to take a little hit on something really nice if I move a bunch of mediocre stuff along with it.
I can tell you what koa sells for here, tack of shipping costs and you will have an idea; straight grain is $35 to $45, figured is $55 to $65 and Curly is $70 and up depending on the curl.
Mango is $10 to about $35 for Curly.
Wenger sells for $90+. The rest of the local woods I get from cutters I know. These are retail prices BTW.
Mango is $10 to about $35 for Curly.
Wenger sells for $90+. The rest of the local woods I get from cutters I know. These are retail prices BTW.
""Mango is $10 to about $35 for Curly""
Crap if I could export Mango out of here for about 1/3 of that price, I would be one happy camper. Plenty of it in the wild, and unless the trees are still bearing fruit nobody wants them!
Around my place this year had some sort of disease or something and killed a bunch of the mango trees.
Neil
Crap if I could export Mango out of here for about 1/3 of that price, I would be one happy camper. Plenty of it in the wild, and unless the trees are still bearing fruit nobody wants them!
Around my place this year had some sort of disease or something and killed a bunch of the mango trees.
Neil
Do you have any spalted curly mango?
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Curly Mango can be very pretty. I get it when I can from my Kauai guy that and monkeypod and milo too. I love milo when figured/sappy and sappy monkeypod is one of my favorite blanks for pepper mills. I always want figured mamane but it's hard to get. I also get the occasional noni, coral tree, or phesantwood. Haven't ever gotten any norfolk pine from him, or any ko'ai'a which is often mistaken as koa unless it is sold by the guy who harvested the tree because the woods look so much similar- ko'ai'a is supposed to be denser than koa but I've not ever had the pleasure of having any to compare. I can't tell the difference in the two from pictures.
I got a piece of kula aka gold wood aka primavera once from another trader I had on the big island (who has dropped off the map) bt it didn't move the needle much on my giddy meter. Maybe it was just a poor representative of the species.
I got a piece of kula aka gold wood aka primavera once from another trader I had on the big island (who has dropped off the map) bt it didn't move the needle much on my giddy meter. Maybe it was just a poor representative of the species.
Kevin, I have a fairly limited experience w/ prima vera but I've NEVER seen a piece that did anything at all to my giddy meter. Not an ugly wood (unless you get heavy blue stain, which I have) but nothing exciting either.
Around my place this year had some sort of disease or something and killed a bunch of
This is the best milo I've used, still have a few feet of this left. Made a top to an urn.
This is the best milo I've used, still have a few feet of this left. Made a top to an urn.
Yeah, that's what I'm screamin'.... love it.
Don, I have never seen any spalted stuff. And the trees we have are mainly small, about 8 inch diameter max. So also have not seen much curly. Just straight grain, I have turned a couple of bowls from it and it is nice stuff.
I have seen some details on how to get the wood to spalt by putting them I guess in a pile of leaves or something. Guess I should try it, but the freaking insects are so voracious around here, they would probably eat it in a couple of days, don't know.
This is a Curly mango paddle I made for my brother in law'school 40th. A lot of the time it has green spots I don't care for. Mango trees get big here and produce so many mangos they litter the roads, so they don't get cut often which is why the price may be higher, not sure.
