Gabon Ebony $20,000 lot of GOLD! ***Ended***
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yes, for modest sized pieces. Really big pieces bring a BIG increase. As a beyond-absurd example, at almost $400/BF: https://www.cookwoods.com/products/gabon-ebony-w221584
Quick way to save $20k, too.Hmmmm. You may be onto something. Wife and kids gone.
Fair point. To touch on @Mike1950’s pragmatic approach, I believe the only offer is $10k here. This is pretty stuff but too perfect for me to throw silly money at. Maybe when it was still a “stick”.
I don't disagree with the arguments; I just don't see how this translates to a unique pricing structure for burls. The difference between resale and wholesale pricing is a universal principle of supply chain economics. If there's very little supply of an item, prices go up. If there's ample supply or a large single transaction, prices go down. I get that, but I also don't think anyone was suggesting otherwise. If someone thinks they can pay wholesale pricing for a retail sale...well, they need to go back to grade school.
To be fair, Cook's is way overpriced in general. Your point is still valid, but I wouldn't reference them for accurate pricing unless there was no other option.
Way over priced and they are middle of no where.
To an east-coaster like me, anything west of Virginia is the middle of nowhere ha ha. I assumed Ocooch was also the middle of nowhere when I looked them up on a map, but they generally have the best prices of any online retailer I've used (very small offering, but still excellent prices).
I have made a handful of orders with Cooks, and every time the wood is mediocre at best. It irks me to no end that they tweak all their photos to emphasize contrast, detail, and color. In reality, the pieces are much more bland. The purple heart I got from them was the grayest Ive ever purchased and didn't change for the better with UV or heat. A Claro Walnut board I bought from them appeared to have curly figure throughout, but what I received had only subtle curl in 1 corner...big let down. When I started running numbers, I realized that even their best sales of 35-40% off still only get the prices down to right around the regular price of other online retailers. Only reason I would use them again is if they have a piece I cant find elsewhere (maybe a burl!).
I've been there once, and they would not budge on prices in their "showroom." Chuck
Only unique thing about pricing burls is weight x $ = price. But Burl market is a unique small market. No real big guys. Just not enough supply. Maybe in Australia.
Sorry. That was in reference to the quantity comment on the other thread. Where I said Mike handled more burl than most of us.
Thank you, you have made it easy to keep my big mouth shut. I have heard the picture thing before. It is a so much mellowed biz plan to under sell and be honest. Beautiful wood is easy to sell. Even with rough sawn crap pics...
I suspected as much considering the nature of burls. Must be all those poisonous snakes and jacked kangaroos causing these burls to grow down under.
which is why I SAID "beyond absurd"
Thank God you're in Florida and that all won't fit in a LFRB because I see a LOT of pens there.
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I have thousands of pounds of waste to get me to where I am now. Thousands. About 50% is waste. This is not. Hundreds of hours of cutting out the bad stuff.
you will not find a bulk order of ebony of this quality
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If you don't mind me asking, why go through all that time and trouble milling the wood and meticulously measuring and labeling each individual piece only to try to unload it all in 1 lump sum? I have no experience selling wood, but it seems to me like you already did at least half the work.
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Yes, I am a fool for this one. I simply don’t have the space for all of this. I have plenty for myself. And even more yet to cut up. I just need this out of my dining room, hence the low price
From what I have seen so far, you might also list a bunch of that "waste" that ain't quite up to standard for sale at a price per pound maybe . There are some several who have expressed an interest in stuff for casting and such like. This crowd is a hard sell on lump sums much past 5 grand. You may very well get this sold but it is going to take some head scratching and pencil scratching on the part of the participants.
The founder set this site up for us cheap skates who would rather swap a piece of curly maple for a chunk of flame box elder or something like that rather than sending dollar bills back and forth across the countryside.
Not saying don't keep this listing, just saying you might get some selling started with a smaller listing even if it isnt your prime offering.
The founder set this site up for us cheap skates who would rather swap a piece of curly maple for a chunk of flame box elder or something like that rather than sending dollar bills back and forth across the countryside.
Not saying don't keep this listing, just saying you might get some selling started with a smaller listing even if it isnt your prime offering.