Box of Taiwanese novelty woods for Ryan F

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@Big Ry Here's your box! Some lovely stuff in there:
1. Figured Golden Nanmu.
2. Golden Nanmu burl.
3. Chinese pistache round.
4. Sweet Plum: Sageretia theezans (you’ll be one of a handful of people in the Americas to have this species).
5. Chrysanthemum wood
6. Taiwanese incense cedar

200$ shipped. Sorry again about the shipping issues with the States recently.

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Byron Barker said:
@Big Ry Here's your box! Some lovely stuff in there:
1. Figured Golden Nanmu.
2. Golden Nanmu burl.
3. Chinese pistache round.
4. Sweet Plum: Sageretia theezans (you’ll be one of a handful of people in the Americas to have this species).
5. Chrysanthemum wood
6. Taiwanese incense cedar

200$ shipped. Sorry again about the shipping issues with the States recently.

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Oh my god! You have sweet plum! The next time you sell some please keep me in mind. I don’t need it particularly thick.
 
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daniscool said:
Oh my god! You have sweet plum! The next time you sell some please keep me in mind. I don’t need it particularly thick.
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I mean, I certainly have more similar sized mini logs if you need some. I pretty much buy it any time I run into it. Crazy beautiful and dense wood. Love the deep wine colored heartwood.
 
Byron Barker said:
@Big Ry Here's your box! Some lovely stuff in there:
1. Figured Golden Nanmu.
2. Golden Nanmu burl.
3. Chinese pistache round.
4. Sweet Plum: Sageretia theezans (you’ll be one of a handful of people in the Americas to have this species).
5. Chrysanthemum wood
6. Taiwanese incense cedar

200$ shipped. Sorry again about the shipping issues with the States recently.

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That’s like winning the lottery!!! Amazing selection!
 
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I mean, I certainly have more similar sized mini logs if you need some. I pretty much buy it any time I run into it. Crazy beautiful and dense wood. Love the deep wine colored heartwood.
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I just spent my woodworking budget on a stock knife so I can’t right now. If you can put aside a long spindle blank maybe 50cm by 5cm by 5cm. Preferably straight grain with some sapwood. Then that would be amazing. If you can’t, tell me what length you can get.
 
If there's any more of the sweet plum, chrysanthemum and incense cedar I'd love some of both. A mini log of plum would be perfect, I only need enough for a square spindle of 1 x 1 x 12" in each. And if you can get them to the UK, but obviously I'd cover shipping.
Great to keep seeing new and interesting woods on here!
 
I'd also be up for some samples of whatever you happen to find. I need 40x120mm pieces (any thickness, even 2mm is fine), or pen blanks which I can resaw and glue back together, or whatever other shape from which I can cut such blanks.
I would be very interested in measuring golden nanmu chatoyance, which is said to be very high. It does not need to be figured.
Thank you!!!
Paolo

PS I am based in Italy
 
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daniscool said:
I just spent my woodworking budget on a stock knife so I can’t right now. If you can put aside a long spindle blank maybe 50cm by 5cm by 5cm. Preferably straight grain with some sapwood. Then that would be amazing. If you can’t, tell me what length you can get.
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Definitely don’t have anything long or straight grained. It’s all short logs like in the picture. They’re good for small turning projects. I’ve never once seen a board of any size available for purchase. The tree is twisted and short, so it just doesn’t produce meaningful lumber.
 
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300LW said:
If you can put together another similar box I’ll take it. I’d be especially interested in the sweet plum.
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Sure, but I do not have any more of the nanmu. I actually sourced that for Ryan. You can DM me and I’ll work something out with you.
 
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daveflutes said:
If there's any more of the sweet plum, chrysanthemum and incense cedar I'd love some of both. A mini log of plum would be perfect, I only need enough for a square spindle of 1 x 1 x 12" in each. And if you can get them to the UK, but obviously I'd cover shipping.
Great to keep seeing new and interesting woods on here!
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None of those little logs are going to produce dimensional lumber apart from incense cedar. They’re good for small turning projects, or just collecting, but definitely not blanks. I believe I have a pistache board lurking around somewhere. I actually found the nanmu for Ryan and ordered it locally as I didn’t have any. If interested, DM me and I’ll help you out.
 
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chatometry said:
I'd also be up for some samples of whatever you happen to find. I need 40x120mm pieces (any thickness, even 2mm is fine), or pen blanks which I can resaw and glue back together, or whatever other shape from which I can cut such blanks.
I would be very interested in measuring golden nanmu chatoyance, which is said to be very high. It does not need to be figured.
Thank you!!!
Paolo

PS I am based in Italy
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None of these woods are going to be good for cutting dimensional lumber apart from the incense cedar and nanmu. However, I sourced the nanmu for Ryan. I do not have any more of it. If you want one, I can also order you one like above, but they are quite expensive.
 
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I’ve really been trying not to sell wood recently due to the shipping fiascos going on, but I’m a sucker for helping people find wood they can’t get locally.
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To be honest, the shipping and duties aren't all that bad. Italy was by far the worst with both when i bought a block of quebracho from sturdy woods. I just received a parcel from Henk Bakker in the Netherlands - 59 or so IWCS samples - and the shipping and duties on that was pretty rough too.
 
Could you save me some scraps?

I'm assembling a xylarium at my university (we're currently up to about 150 species -- thanks in large part to Woodbarter folks, notably Paul Hinds and @Mr. Peet and @wood128 ). I could use smallish samples of, well, pretty much anything from Taiwan. IWCS standard sample size is 6" x 3" x 0.5", but I'm not a stickler for that size -- I can take pieces as small as a pen blank, or even smaller if that's the only way to get something rare. I can use cookies as well. And I can use pieces with checks, knots, snipes, insect damage, and so on -- sometimes those are really more for teaching tree structure and function than a "perfect" sample would be. Let me know what you've got in the scrap pile. . .
 
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Cloud of Sawdust Farms said:
Could you save me some scraps?

I'm assembling a xylarium at my university (we're currently up to about 150 species -- thanks in large part to Woodbarter folks, notably Paul Hinds and @Mr. Peet and @wood128 ). I could use smallish samples of, well, pretty much anything from Taiwan. IWCS standard sample size is 6" x 3" x 0.5", but I'm not a stickler for that size -- I can take pieces as small as a pen blank, or even smaller if that's the only way to get something rare. I can use cookies as well. And I can use pieces with checks, knots, snipes, insect damage, and so on -- sometimes those are really more for teaching tree structure and function than a "perfect" sample would be. Let me know what you've got in the scrap pile. . .
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Sounds cool! I don’t have scrap piles any more because I no longer have my tools or a shop, just boxes of wood. You’d need to simply take whatever size I have available. I don’t have the ability to mill anymore. It would probably cost a small fortune to ship a large batch of the woods I have due to the sizes and shapes.
 
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Definitely don’t have anything long or straight grained. It’s all short logs like in the picture. They’re good for small turning projects. I’ve never once seen a board of any size available for purchase. The tree is twisted and short, so it just doesn’t produce meaningful lumber.
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What the longest you’ve got? 5cm by 5cm is sort of required but I could use much shorter stock too. I was planning to handle a scorp with it but in this case I’ll do something else. Maybe a kitchen knife (I like to cook) or a mocotaugan. If it’s not that long we can also skip the straight grain.
 
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