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🌲 ɛռɖɛɖ 🌲 Figured Old Growth Padauk Game Calls and Knife Scales

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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 re-sawn into knife scales or for other items. Also shown are four sets of knife scales from this same board. Three sets measure 2 x 6 x 3/8ths and one set measures 1.5 x 6 x 3/8ths. This stuff is very dense and has ribbon figure.

Two of the photos show just the bare wood and two show a few of the pieces with alcohol rubbed on them. Asking $30 plus shipping of $8. They will all fit in a padded flat rate envelop.
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I have no idea. It was just labeled as padauk. It's not like other padauk I've got. More dense and the ribbon stripe is not in the other padauk.
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I am fairly positive that those aren’t the African variety as the color of some of my back and sides sets and the 20” wide Padauk board I have is closer to vermillion. The Burmese variety are within those color range and looks more like rosewood- they are also very heavy and very dense at about 5 pounds per board foot. These have really nice deep color and does have that rosewood face grain markings.
 
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Arn213 said:
I am fairly positive that those aren’t the African variety as the color of some of my back and sides sets and the 20” wide Padauk board I have is closer to vermillion. The Burmese variety are within those color range and looks more like rosewood- they are also very heavy and very dense at about 5 pounds per board foot. These have really nice deep color and does have that rosewood face grain markings.
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I agree. I spent time on several sites after you asked and what I have is clearly not the African bright vermillion which I also have. But it does have that slightly sweet fragrance of the African padauk. I'm convinced it is the Burmese or Andaman. I've had this stuff more than 20 years. Fortunately, it was still labeled.
 
If I made knives or pens (hint, hint, hint), I would jump on this in a New York minute:wink:. Everything you said is true and the Andaman variety is almost non existent and very hard to find. You would have to go to an exotic veneer mill that specializes on exotics to find it and they will cost you an arm and a leg with a purchase minimum easy in the 3 to 4 digits.
 
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Thanks for the tag Larry, but I have a bunch of Padauk in my stash in NY. Funny I also bought it many years ago from Hearne. I used to love to go there. At that time he had like a small show room in the office with the primo stuff and I loved to pick through that. Put a big hurt on my AMEX card though!
 
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He still has that show room and it's amazing what he has. Big prices, however. But his customers are willing to pay it, it seems, so more power to him.
 
I'll take them Larry. How about any spalted curly walnut knife scales I'm staying tuned for
 
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Thanks Barry. Let me dig around in the spalted pile tomorrow and see what I can find. The weather has been awful here the last few days but is supposed to improve a bit tomorrow. I'll hold on to these until I know.
 
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I'll take them Larry. How about any spalted curly walnut knife scales I'm staying tuned for
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Just spent an hour turning over boards in the small barn behind the house and found no spalted walnut. Lots of spalted curly maple 5/4 and 6/4 however. Walnut is very resistant to decay so even if I found some in that stack, it probably didn't spalt. On the farm where I grew up, we sometimes used walnut as fence posts. Old log cabins often used black walnut logs. But I will keep looking. Will go ahead and send the padauk to you tomorrow.
 
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Just spent an hour turning over boards in the small barn behind the house and found no spalted walnut. Lots of spalted curly maple 5/4 and 6/4 however. Walnut is very resistant to decay so even if I found some in that stack, it probably didn't spalt. On the farm where I grew up, we sometimes used walnut as fence posts. Old log cabins often used black walnut logs. But I will keep looking. Will go ahead and send the padauk to you tomorrow.
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My bad Larry I apologize for making you clean the small barn. I was referring to this post which was maple OOPS

Spalted Curly Knife Scales
 
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I needed to see what was in there anyway. So, to be clear, you're looking for some spalted figured maple knife scales. I do have some more as of today so let me prepare them and post in a new thread. How many sets are you interested in? They are $4 per set. I can ship them in the same box with the old growth Burmese padauk.
 
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Thanks. I had a bit of a mishap here at home yesterday and had to spend several hours in the ER. Fell on some ice and hit my head on the sidewalk really hard. Also twisted my back and pulled a muscle at the bottom of my spine. So I was hurting. I take a blood thinner so any blow to the head is dangerous. A CT scan showed that everything was okay so that was a relief. Now just trying to work the soreness out of my back. Gotta be more careful.

With the help of my wife, I was able to get out this morning; but basically, I need to just take it easy for a couple of days.
 
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