I’ve had good experience with him. Chuck
Pink ivory or something that looks like rose gold
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I have too, so I was surprised to hear that. The quebracho I'm using in the bookends for my father are from him, and they certainly feel heavy enough to be quebracho lol
I think that Osage also has a uniform yellow Color. (Sometimes) you could definitely find some on WB.
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I already have some osage. I don't think it has the color im looking for.
That said, i looked at everyone's recommendations and thensome. I am shooting for light colors and subtle grain for the rose gold part. After doing some looking, i just ordered some flaming box elder, yellow Rosa (fairly similar appearance to flaming box elder, but more subtle pinks), Swiss pear (already got some, but ordered more), and red canary wood. The red canary is the only one that I'm kind of unsure about with the grain. It might be a bit rustic looking for what I'm trying to do, but it was the cheapest of the 4 i bought, so no big deal. I'm going to have to play around with these woods when i get them to see how i feel.
GVWP sells a lot of stuff and many on here use them. It is simply a pass the buck issue. Dave buys wood, it has to have a name associated with it for import. His suppliers give a name, just not always the right one. So he in turn sells the product under the name given to him.
Several of the Chrysophyllum species have a yellow hue. So it might be right. Yellow heart is more common in Brazil. Dave buys a lot from Guyana.
You also mentioned Swiss pear. Most pear is bland and only has the pink hue if the wood has been steamed.
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Oh i see. Well i have to imagine that a lot of hardwood dealers (at least those selling exotics) have this issue then, no? I've certainly questioned some, especially when it comes to ebonies.
The blandness of pear is actually part of the reason why i selected it. I'm looking for more muted grain pattern, of which species like Swiss pear and pink ivory excel. Thinking of rose gold, I feel the smoothness and uniformity characterizes the appearance. There is no stark contrast or large variations. So it seems a tight grain species with only subtle grain pattern fits the mold well. As for the color, it may or may not work well. But i can't know until i get the pieces together. The piece of Swiss pear i currently have does have a very subtle pink hue, and that's what I'm imagining of the new piece that i bought was well. But I may get it and it looks nothing like what i thought. That's ok, because i can easily find other uses for it.
I don't know how best to describe the pattern I'm planning for this board, and i haven't fully worked out all the details either. But essentially I'm planning to have a grouping of 3-4 longitudinal stripes that's off-center (in the first 1/3 of the board). And these longitudinal stripes are going to be made from 2 species; the point at which they shift will vary by stripe). Picture an equalizer or an audio mixer, where each line/band is set at a different position, and everything to the left is color A and everything to the right is color B. I was thinking of using the pear as one of the colors, with it being intentionally bland. The pink ivory is the other color, and it's like it comes alive so to speak. I don't know if this is going to work the way i want or not, but that's the plan as of now.
The Swiss pear will turn somewhat yellowish over time (especially with an oil finish say mineral oil) but will lose only very little of its pink hue. Probably one of your best bets.
Desert Palo Verde, has a medium yellow tone. @barry richardson or @Nubsnstubs might be able to show or elaborate on it's color more than i can
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Really? My pear has gotten considerably darker over time. It's similar to black cherry in the shade change
Do you know which sorbus species you have? Mine is sorbus torminalis or aucuparia. They yellowed considerably after finishing. But as far as I know they never darkened to a more orange Color. They kept most of their pinkishness and and got a little yellow.
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No idea. I bought this last fall from cooks (before i knew cooks were crooks). Says figured but it's not
no link to it since it was a handpicked piece.
It was actually that Color? This might be an American sorbus species because I can say with near absolute certainty that aucuparia and torminalis will not turn that Color.No idea. I bought this last fall from cooks (before i knew cooks were crooks). Says figured but it's not
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No, it's not that color lol. Cooks is notorious for editing photos. It's much more tan in color
Got a pic?
EDIT: Waaaiiit are they the Boguscolorvendor from the hobbithouse wood name database?
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Lol yup that's them! I'm out of state right now but i can dig it out tonight or tomorrow.
Aah thanks. All good I can wait. I likely have more than enough of the exact species you’re talking about.
I'll elaborate. Here is a picture of 5 pieces made between 2012 and 2015. All have been kept indoors away from windows. No reason for that other than I keep all my stuff on shelves or other flat surfaces as I don't have any flat surfaces near windows. The color has stayed the same from day one, which all except the lidded form were green when I turned then. None are finished, only sanded and left to warp however they wanted. They all feel like leather when handling them.
The natural edge was made right after I made my Tail Stock Steady prototype. I was so happy it worked like planned, but I went through the bottom and made a damn funnel.
.................. Nubs
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Wow that's wildly different from mine. Yours are practically yellow. At the lightest, mine was like a creamy tan.
I don't know which species of Palo Verde, but here is a bowl I finished. This was a rough out that I got from Jerry. The finish was tung oil, so some amber color is from that. The color in the pics is true to life and it is basically the same today, 3 years after finishing.
Spalted Palo Verde Bowl
This is a blank I got from Jerry last summer and was my first time turning Palo Verde. Jerry had already rounded the blank and had a tenon on it, but as you'll see there were plenty of challenges in finishing it. This was a backup piece for the turning challenge, but didn't blow up my primary...
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Beautiful. I think it's a bit too dark for what I'm going for though