@Byron Barker, Do you think "chicken blood wood" got it's name because the vine bleeds red sap? Just wondering if your vines showed any red sap when freshly cut like this?
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@Byron Barker, Do you think "chicken blood wood" got it's name because the vine bleeds red sap? Just wondering if your vines showed any red sap when freshly cut like this?
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It did not do any bleeding. I looked into the vine that was mentioned and I'm not sure the two are the exact species. It may be the younger vines have this quality and older don't. Don't know. The Chinese name for chicken blood wood refers to Chinese elm in Taiwan. Weird.
I looked, sorry, but I don't have anything that clear. Tony
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Since I'll send you a some samples, please let me know if you want cut offs of any of the following as well. Pomelo, orange jessamine, longan, cinnamon, hinoki, guava, acacia confusa, bridellia. I can't do deminsional lumber of most of those woods at my workshop since they are too hard for my equipment, but cut offs are fine. Hinoki would be some old pecky board wood cut to whatever. Most will have some checking.
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I like canary wood a lot. I brought back a snowboard bag full of it, hickory, ash and walnut last time I was home. No need for it now. Also brought some zebrawood... Which turned out to be a bad choice in bag space. I'm not familiar with the other wood listed. I'll check it out.
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Ive always seen pau amerello listed as yellow heart so didn't recognize it. No interest though.
Thanks very much.
Pomelo just need enough to get a decent end grain shot for the anatomy pages since it's not on the main pages
orange jessamine, longan, guava, and bridellia I don't need but cutoffs would be nice from cinnamon, hinoki and acacia confusa
Don't want this to get too big since I figure postage from Twaiwan will be expensive
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Actually, postage from here is quite cheap. Just not the other way around. Can you explain what kind of cut would be good for an end grain picture. Not sure. Maybe a pic similar to what you'd like.
The best cut by far is a small "plank" that has about 3/4" of end grain, is at least 2" wide and 3" long. Bigger is better but I certainly don't need anything bigger than the IWCS standard of 3" wide by 6" long by 1/2" thick (I like more than 1/2" thick 'cause it presents more end grain).
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Bauhinia championii see https://blackwalnut.npust.edu.tw/archives/anatomy/127941
Firefox lists this site as not secure so I'm not going to go to it. What does it say as regards this thread? Specifically, does it have wood pics of the listed species?
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I had the same issue. I went to the site and it won't let me in. It is attached to a university, so it might have something to do with that. That picture came up when I used the Chinese name, so it confirmed it was the same vine, just not sure what that is. I'll talk to my friend at the local university. He might know.
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Here we go. A little digging and there it is: http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?channelid=1288&lang=en&searchword=herb_id=D01298
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Here is the same vine up for bids in Yahoo Taiwan. Good pic. https://tw.bid.yahoo.com/item/菊花藤-龍鬚藤-梅花入骨丹-九龍藤-花藤-茶道-花藝-插花-100131617900
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Wow, I would love some plum! I normally do staves, but recently I have been doing laminate bows. I need basically board wood for this and not staves. Backing wood is easy enough for me to source here, but not belly wood. So, I am trying to source some long blanks for belly laminations. Belly wood on a bow needs to be high in compression and strong enough to handle the stretching brought on by the backing strip of wood (usually bamboo or ash backing in my case). I could just source some Ipe or another boring belly wood I've done in the past, but I'd like some new stuff to experiment with. Plum will never get old to me. I like it too much. However, I would ask for it to be somewhat dry. If you ship it wet, it will check to hell in my climate.
I am not really sure what exactly the USDA does to determine what comes in or not. I've done a lot of shipping of chinese herbs that I collected myself and sent to the States without any issue. I just label the species and state that is has been "processed". As far as wood, I've always been told to not ship wood with the bark on due to bugs. However, I feel like if I were to seal it up with some poly and make it look processed in this regard, they may not care. The bark on this stuff is like hickory bark: it doesn't like coming off. That and it looks nice. I was considering simply listing it as an herb since it is known for that far better than the wood. So like I said, I am a bit up in the air about it. The best bet would be to cut it into smaller segments, seal it and make it not look like I just cut it out of the jungle behind my house ;-). Either way, I'd ask you to wait till your end comes in before shipping my end to CO. Or, I could pay you for the plum and osage in the event it doesn't come in.
I am not really sure what exactly the USDA does to determine what comes in or not. I've done a lot of shipping of chinese herbs that I collected myself and sent to the States without any issue. I just label the species and state that is has been "processed". As far as wood, I've always been told to not ship wood with the bark on due to bugs. However, I feel like if I were to seal it up with some poly and make it look processed in this regard, they may not care. The bark on this stuff is like hickory bark: it doesn't like coming off. That and it looks nice. I was considering simply listing it as an herb since it is known for that far better than the wood. So like I said, I am a bit up in the air about it. The best bet would be to cut it into smaller segments, seal it and make it not look like I just cut it out of the jungle behind my house ;-). Either way, I'd ask you to wait till your end comes in before shipping my end to CO. Or, I could pay you for the plum and osage in the event it doesn't come in.
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I want to make more like below.
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This is a black ebony bow I made from some ebony I sourced from a guitar shop. It was a 2x2x36'' blank. I cut it in half, spliced it, glued on a bamboo boo backing, overlayed orange jessamine for the handle and horn on the tips. Bravo! A wonderful to shoot and beautiful to look at bow. I'd like to make more like that.
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These go through x-rays done by Custom officers. Lumber of any form cannot have the following and has restrictions: bug bores, pin holes, rot/punk, heavy spalting, live edge, bark incursion/inclusion, ingrown bark, bark attached, mineralization that shows up “black”, “ghosting trails” such as bug feces. When these don’t pass “clearance” Customs will send you a slip whether you want the following done if they find anything “suspect” about the lumber
: a). quarantine, b). sanitary/phytosanitary inspection or c). destroy. If you choose “b” option there is a fee of $ 40 to fumigate the wood per item if there are in seperate packages. These are the reasons why international packages ends up being longer that expected for delivery due to Customs inspection and administrative formalities. The only way to get around this is to get a professional fumigation service done on your shipment and attached into your package as proof prior to shipping internationally.Yes, you can put a “clear coat” and list it as a “finished product”..........much more passable in dimensional lumber form. Other forms such as unprocessed form such as short logs, live edge for organic form, well expect the worse......
What I listed above I did not google and these are direct experience- “Land Down Under” is very, very strict and they don’t want anything to get into their country that would result in catastrophic nature that threatens their trees, forest, agriculture, etc.. I never shipped not knowing any of their rules
, matter of fact I alert recipients in what might happen and they still are insistent- damn “wood addicts”
. Some “pin holes” can drive up a red flag. Put it this way, one species was black limba and they red flagged it because of the variegated streaks. Lesson learned- shipping lumber international is expensive, plus there are associated taxes imposed by the destination country and the possibility of it being flagged by customs will incur additional cost passed on to the importer.
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Yes, I used to live in Sydney and would watch the boarder patrol show they have on TV there. They are strict as hell. I think the US is more lazy about it depending on who it is looking at your package, but yes, it would be handy to have a professional fumigate it. How to find that in Taiwan, I don't know.
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I spoke with the quarantine office here and downloaded some info, but they stated irregardless of treatment type, the bark needs to some off. So, the only way I'd be able to ship it is in a blank form. Pitty because it looks so cool naturally. If you are still interested though, let me know and I can cut some large blanks out of it.
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