Greveana is one of my favorites. Purpurascens can be really pretty also. I think I have 9-10 positively identified. I’ll have to start another thread once I get a bit of time. Got a 6 days of 10 hour shifts starting tonight, so might be a few days
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I've always wanted to find some purpurascens! not easy over here! Of the madagascan species I have baronii and greveana, plus of course bois de rose. I am not entirely sure whether I have maritima and louvelii - probably a bit of both. I need to get the pieces out and check the end grain.
Yeesh, 10hr shifts and 6 days of them! Thats a hefty week!
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Hi @Friedrich9 no problem, I'm just getting back on track too. My hand has had the wires out and bandages off and I nearly have a couple of flutes finally finished!
I'll dig out my list again and send it on. A sliver of waddywood would be lovely if it works out.
Also @Big Ry I haven't forgotten you either. My Octopus order with your last two pieces has been shipped but it always takes a while from Turkey. I'd also been trying to get a couple of woods they didn't have listed. I'll let you know when the pistachio and cornelian cherry arrive.
Those two Dalbergias look great! I do like seeing the different types. I have a piece of 'hupeana' that frankly could be anything, I really should check it more closely. I also have a nice chunk of D frutescens coming that I'm really pleased about. I also got some greveana recently though it's going to take a glue up to get a flute.
I'll dig out my list again and send it on. A sliver of waddywood would be lovely if it works out.
Also @Big Ry I haven't forgotten you either. My Octopus order with your last two pieces has been shipped but it always takes a while from Turkey. I'd also been trying to get a couple of woods they didn't have listed. I'll let you know when the pistachio and cornelian cherry arrive.
Those two Dalbergias look great! I do like seeing the different types. I have a piece of 'hupeana' that frankly could be anything, I really should check it more closely. I also have a nice chunk of D frutescens coming that I'm really pleased about. I also got some greveana recently though it's going to take a glue up to get a flute.
Its all good. I haven't gotten through prepping your pieces anyway. I have been trying to clean and reorganize my shop, so its been torn apart as I move in new drawers and cabinets and rearrange things to get more space. I still have a router table and scroll saw that have been sitting sealed in their box for a solid year. I need to finally get that stuff out so I can use it! In the process of organizing my wood, Ive also been working on a spreadsheet to track my collection just like you have. At this point its a necessity. Ive barely scratched the surface and am up to 40-50 species. I think I'll have 300-400 by the time I get through it all.
I have the Mgurure and Thuya blanks set aside and ready to go. I have a piece of Matt's Smoke Tree set aside to cut up for you. I also grabbed a prime piece of Eastern White Pine to go along with the not-so-prime piece from the tree in my side yard. The stuff is dirt cheap here, so I just bought a board from Lowes ha ha. It is definitely EWP and not SYP or S-P-F or some other "whitewood". I can easily get you a few knot-free blanks from that board. I'll have to go back to our list for the rest of the species we discussed, but suffice it to say Ive made no further progress on them since we lasts spoke about it ha ha
Yes you did hear peuce. I’m hoping to get a bowl blank and several 2-2.5” diameter branches. It’ll determine what I end up doing with my larger log. I cleaned up the end grain the other day to make sure it had that purpleish hue Peuce has.
Wow. I do vaguely remember you expressing interest in some buckthorn. I think I still have to cut some common buckthorn but I have the glossy. If we do end up making a trade, I have been trying to get my hands on peuce for years.
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@Friedrich9 just getting myself up to date. This is what I currently have for you.
Here's my slightly outdated list of woods that I have or have had, again if anything piques your interest:
docs.google.com
Here's a loose wishlist of what you've got that I could use. These are woods on the TWD poster that I don't have, but if you have any other interesting Australian woods I'm also in. I've flagged a few if you want some sort of shortlist, but I'd take whatever you can spare for a fair trade or trade/sale.
| Wood | Size | Weight | ||
| African birch | 300 × 112 × 50mm | 11 ⅞" × 4 ⅜" × 2" | 1934 g | 4.26 lbs |
| Guayacan | 152 × 102 × 32mm | 6" × 4" × 1 ¼" | 639 g | 1.41 lbs |
| Parba | 22 × 150 × 57mm | ⅞" × 5 ⅞" × 2 ¼" | 1505 g | 3.32 lbs |
| Black palmira | 530 × 69 × 24mm | 20 ⅞" × 2 ¾" × 1" | 1011 g | 2.23 lbs |
| Leatherwood | 295 × 165 × 37mm | 11 ⅝" × 6 ½" × 1 ½" | 1362 g | 3.00 lbs |
| Turkey oak | 315 × 210 × 45mm | 12 ⅜" × 8 ¼" × 1 ¾" | 1868 g | 4.12 lbs |
| Kenthao ironwood | 185 × 180 × 65mm | 7 ¼" × 7 ⅛" × 2 ⅝" | 2468 g | 5.44 lbs |
| 10.8 kg | 23.8 lbs |
Here's my slightly outdated list of woods that I have or have had, again if anything piques your interest:
Wood Barter wood list.xlsx
Here's a loose wishlist of what you've got that I could use. These are woods on the TWD poster that I don't have, but if you have any other interesting Australian woods I'm also in. I've flagged a few if you want some sort of shortlist, but I'd take whatever you can spare for a fair trade or trade/sale.
| Common name | Botanical name | TWD | Priority |
| Formosa Koa | Acacia confusa | AUS | 1 |
| Ironwood wattle | Acacia excelsa | AUS | |
| Acacia mangium | Acacia mangium | P | |
| Black Wattle | Acacia Mearnsii | AUS | |
| Waddywood | Acacia Peuce | AUS | 1 |
| Spear wattle | Acacia rhodoxylon | AUS | |
| Boonaree | Alectryon oleifolius | AUS | 1 |
| Red Alder | Alnus rubra | NA | |
| Aus Red Ash | Alphitonia excelsa | AUS | |
| Espave | Anacardium excelsum | CA | 1 |
| Mersawa burl | Anisoptera costata | P | |
| King Billy pine | Athrotaxis selaginoides | AUS | |
| Cancharana | Cabralea cangerana | SA | |
| Australian cypress | Callitris columellaris | AUS | |
| Rosita/Santa Maria | Calophyllum brasiliense | CA | |
| Hawaiian Kamani | Calophyllum inophyllum | P | |
| Belah | Casuarina cristata | AUS | |
| Barba de jolote | Cojoba arborea | CA | |
| Yellow sassafras | Doryphora sassafras | AUS | |
| NG walnut | Dracontomelon mangiferum | P | |
| Kapur | Dryobalanops aromatica | P | |
| Cooktown ironwood | Erythrophleum chlorostachys | AUS | |
| Yellow river Gum | Eucalyptus Leucoxylon | AUS | |
| Brown top Eucalyptus | Eucalyptus obliqua | AUS | |
| Swamp Mahogany | Eucalyptus robusta | AUS | |
| Sydney Blue Gum | Eucalyptus saligna | AUS | |
| Salmon gum | Eucalyptus salmonophloia | AUS | 1 |
| Gimlet Eucalyptus | Eucalyptus salubris | AUS | |
| Wandoo | Eucalyptus wandoo | AUS | 1 |
| Ulin | Eusideroxylon zwageri | P | |
| Tamo Ash | Fraxinus mandshurica | ASIA | 1 |
| Borneo Rosewood | Gluta spp | P | |
| Ramin | Gonystylus spp. | P | |
| Southern SilkOak | Grevillea robusta | AUS | |
| Rubber wood | Hevea brasiliensis | P | 1 |
| Black Ironwood | Krugiodendron ferreum | CA | |
| Brush Box | Lophostemon confertus | AUS | |
| Red Bauhinia | Lysiphyllum carronii | AUS | |
| Sapodilla / Zapote | Manilkara zapota | CA | |
| Mora | Mora excelsa | SA | |
| Black Stinkwood | Ocotea bullata | AFR | 1 |
| Black Ironwood/ Cape Olive | Olea capensis | AFR | 1 |
| Indonesian Nyatoh | Palaquium spp. Payena spp. | P | 1 |
| Celery top pine | Phyllocladus aspleniifolius | AUS | |
| NZ Totara | Podocarpus totara | AUS | |
| Silver poplar | Populus alba | E | 1 |
| Weeping willow | Salix babylonica | ASIA | 1 |
| True sandalwood | Santalum album | ASIA | 1 |
| Warma/ Guyana rosewood | Swartzia benthamiana | CA | |
| Manni | Symphonia globulifera | AUS | |
| Makore | Tieghemella heckelii | AFR | 1 |
| Lacebark Elm | Ulmus parvifolia | ASIA | 1 |
| Siberian red elm | Ulmus pumila | E | 1 |
| Gum Arabic | Vachellia nilotica | AFR | 1 |
| Shittim | Vachellia seyal | AFR | 1 |
| Solomons queen Ebony | Xanthostemon melanoxylon | P | |
| Mangkono | Xanthostemon verdugonianus | P | 1 |
| Tigre caspi | Zygia cataractae | SA | 1 |
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And @Big Ry Here's what I currently have for you:
| Common | Botanical | Source | Get | Status |
| Knob thorn | Senegalia nigrescen | Dalmann UK | 2x2x18" from Dalmann | Got |
| Masasa | Dalmann UK | 2x2x18" from Dalmann | Got | |
| Milk pear | Dalmann UK | 2x2x18" from Dalmann | Got | |
| Mulumanhyma | Dalmann UK | 2x2x18" from Dalmann | Got | |
| Newtonia | Dalmann UK | 2x2x18" from Dalmann | Got | |
| Cornelian cherry | Cornus mas | Octopus | 1.75 x 1.75 x 15" from Octopus | Ordered |
| Pistachio | Pistacia lentiscus | Octopus | 1.5 x 1.5 x 18" from Octopus | Ordered |
| Snakewood | Acacia xiphophyllum | cut 1 x 3 x 11" ish | Need to cut | |
| Ekki | 450 x 75 x 50mm | Got | ||
| Ekki | 450 x 65 x 50mm | Got |
That all looks good to me.
I just measured everything to see exactly what I can get out of the pieces I have. Let me know if any of those ones under 12" are a problem. The Mgurure and 3 Thuja blanks are already cut and packed. The most promising piece of Thuja hasn't been cut yet. For the rest of the species, in some cases I'm limited by length and not by width. But if I can only do 12" long, does extra width benefit you at all or are you just going to turn it down to 1" anyway?
| Common | Botanical | Requested Size | Available Size(s) |
| Mgurure | Combretum schumannii | 1.5 x 1.5 x 12" | 1.5 x 1.5 x 12" (prepped and ready) |
| American holly | Ilex opaca | 1 x 1 x 12" - 3 pcs or eq in board | (2) 1x1x11 knotty, (1) 1x1x10 5/16" knotty, 5/4 measures exactly 1.25", 4/4 measures exactly 1" |
| Eastern white pine | Pinus strobus | 1.5 x 1.5 x 18" | 1.5 x 1.5 x 18" lower grade from my property, 1x1x12 prime grade (I'll cut a couple for you) |
| American sycamore | Platanus occidentalis | 3 x 13/16 x 18" | 3 x 13/16 x 18" (currently trying to source some 8/4 sycamore, if so Ill give you a 1.5x1.5x18) |
| Gombeira, Brazilian ebony | Swartzia stipulifera | 1 x 1 x 12" | Measures exactly 15/16", so I can do 15/16" x 15/16" x 12", or I can provide 3x15/16x18 for glued-up full size flute |
| Brazilian ebony | Swartzia tomentosa | 1 x 1 x 12" | Can do 1.5x1.5x18 instead of 1x1x12 if you want |
| Emerald Green Arbortitae | Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd' | 1.5 x 1.5 x 18" | 1" x 1" x 12" (QS), 1.5" x 1.5" x 16 7/8" (center pith & knotty), 1 1/2" x 1 5/16" x 18" (QS at edge of pith), should be able to get close to 1.5x1.5x18 with the last piece I haven't milled yet |
| Flame birch | Betula alleghaniensis | 1 x 1 x 12" | Measures 15/16" - 1", so should be able to get a solid 1x1x12 |
| Alligator juniper | Juniperus deppeana | 3/4 x 3/4 x 8" or 2 @ 1x1x6? | Can do (1) 1" x 1" x up to 9" OR (2) 1x1x6. Might be able to get 3/4x3/4x8 form another piece |
| Box elder | Acer negundo | 1 x 1 x 12" | Measures 1", so should be able to get a solid 1x1x12 |
| White miranti | Shorea spp. ?hypochra | 1 x 1 x 12" ish would be great | Lamination layers are not consistent thickness. Might be able to get a couple 3/4x3/4x8 solid blanks, otherwise it'll have to include a glue joint. |
| Valencia orange | Citrus sinensis | 1 x 1 x 11+ | 1" x 1" x11 1/8" |
| Smoketree | Longest piece I can get is 10 3/4", but I can do 1.5" x 1.5" easy. |
Is the emerald green arborvitae actually green?
I assume it's referring to the branches/leaves, which are a fairly deep green color. The wood itself is a mix of cream color and a golden brown towards the pith. It's surprisingly chatoyant. These are shellacked and wrapped in plastic, but you get the idea.
