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I had to rummage around in my scrap bin the other day to find packing peanuts, and I found quite a pile of pieces I'll never use. Every one of these is fundamentally flawed in some way - often cracks/splits, small sizes not useful, maybe caught the pith or cut twisted. But there is plenty of meat on the bones. Maybe jewelry, small boxes, or just plain experimentation with unusual wood?
So...anyone want a mfrb that is a grab bag of off the beaten path material? Includes:
Desert ironwood (splits)
Mastodon tooth (useless end chunk)
Pink ivory (chewed up thin)
Leadwood (pith / bark / cracking)
Sumac (thin)
Hornbeam (offcut ends / knots)
Stabilized rhododendron (ugly)
European boxwood (small / inclusions)
Old Ironsides live oak (splits, smells)
Manzanita burl (small / splits)
Lignum (tiny odd shapes)
African blackwood (small, sapwood)
Brazilian rosewood (sapwood, thin)
Spalted maple (bad size)
Dogwood (odd bits, inclusion)
Snakewood (small offcuts / splits)
Mystery wood (it's a mystery)
I would like to trade for two good quality knife blocks / scales that seem interesting. Burl / hard to find material / ??
Any interest?
I had to rummage around in my scrap bin the other day to find packing peanuts, and I found quite a pile of pieces I'll never use. Every one of these is fundamentally flawed in some way - often cracks/splits, small sizes not useful, maybe caught the pith or cut twisted. But there is plenty of meat on the bones. Maybe jewelry, small boxes, or just plain experimentation with unusual wood?
So...anyone want a mfrb that is a grab bag of off the beaten path material? Includes:
Desert ironwood (splits)
Mastodon tooth (useless end chunk)
Pink ivory (chewed up thin)
Leadwood (pith / bark / cracking)
Sumac (thin)
Hornbeam (offcut ends / knots)
Stabilized rhododendron (ugly)
European boxwood (small / inclusions)
Old Ironsides live oak (splits, smells)
Manzanita burl (small / splits)
Lignum (tiny odd shapes)
African blackwood (small, sapwood)
Brazilian rosewood (sapwood, thin)
Spalted maple (bad size)
Dogwood (odd bits, inclusion)
Snakewood (small offcuts / splits)
Mystery wood (it's a mystery)
I would like to trade for two good quality knife blocks / scales that seem interesting. Burl / hard to find material / ??
Any interest?
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