Spalted & High Contrast Maple(?)

[ScoutDog]

Greetings:
I'll find a way to employ those cute, little Arg Lignum pieces that you may not. Thank you.
I do not normally go for thins, to be honest. But, I'm intrigued. Would you be able to snap a quick photo of them? My first thought is to glue them together or make a kind of layered blank of my own and carve them into an intricate design. Hmmm....

I'll trust your judgement of what may fit into the box.
Personal conversation coming.
Thanks again!

 

[Big Ry]

Greetings:
I'll find a way to employ those cute, little Arg Lignum pieces that you may not. Thank you.
I do not normally go for thins, to be honest. But, I'm intrigued. Would you be able to snap a quick photo of them? My first thought is to glue them together or make a kind of layered blank of my own and carve them into an intricate design. Hmmm....

I'll trust your judgement of what may fit into the box.
Personal conversation coming.
Thanks again!

I can get actual photos tomorrow, but you can see generally what the guitar headplates and lemonaballi looks like below and let me know if any are not of interest to you.

The East Indian Rosewood and Katalox headplates came from Exotic Wood Zone, so they are the same as the one linked below. These are somewhat rough on 1 face, so they would need to be surfaced before laminating if you wanted to do that.

The Lemonaballi, Greenheart, and Goncalo Alves all came from Dave at GVWP, and photos of them can be seen in his ebay listings, which I copied and uploaded here. The Lemonaballi and Greenheart are S4S thins, so they are good to laminate. The Goncalo Alves was leftover from a 4x4x8 block that I used, so only 1 face is surfaced. Its roughly 8x4x1/4. The Lemonaballi is a little duller yellow than shown below, but its still yellow. Dave said he only ever got 1 shipment of this unique wood, so the photos shown are from the same stock. I included a photo of a project I made with the Goncalo Alves, so this is a thin from the exact same block. Dave listed this as "Quebracho" on ebay, but it wasn't the Quebracho I was hoping for (apparently that is a common name used for many species). Despite not being the ultra hard quebracho I wanted, this wood is still something crazy like 70 lb/ft^3. Its super heavy but actually works easily.

Id have to get you actual photos of the thinwin and katalox tomorrow.

East Indian Rosewood headplates:

East Indian Rosewood Guitar Headplate Wood Blank - Exotic Wood Zone

Buy East Indian Rosewood Headplate/Headstock/Overlay Wood Blank Wood Specifications Wood Name East Indian Rosewood, Indian Rosewood, sonokeling - Exotic Wood Zone

exoticwoodzone.com

Lemonaballi (from GVWP):


Greenheart (from GVWP):


Super heavy Goncalo Alves (from GVWP):

 

[Big Ry]

JB,

Photos of the thins are below. From left to right: katalox, East Indian rosewood, thinwin, lemonaballi, greenheart. Dry and sprayed with alcohol. Let me know if you want any of these thins.

 

[ScoutDog]

JB,

Photos of the thins are below. From left to right: katalox, East Indian rosewood, thinwin, lemonaballi, greenheart. Dry and sprayed with alcohol. Let me know if you want any of these thins.

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Those are beauties! Be happy for you to include them. Thanks!

 

[Big Ry]

After that long ordeal with USPS, i finally got these pieces! They look even better in person.

 

[ScoutDog]

@Big Ry I also received my box full of goodness. I was preoccupied with watching yours get stuck in the system, so I'm only just now posting that I recieved it. The trade was phenomenal, and I'm enamored with the pieces I got! Thanks, Ryan!!

As for the unlabeled pieces: I think the smaller spalted one is also maple as it looks like its big brothers there.
I just don't know about the other two. Perhaps @Mr. Peet could shed some light on those?
I scoured my shop seeking what I thought was spalted, and this fit into the box around the much larger maple pieces.
I cannot wait to learn what you make with the larger pieces! If I encounter more, I'll post them here.

Thanks again!
--JB

 

[Mr. Peet]

After that long ordeal with USPS, i finally got these pieces! They look even better in person.

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Top center looks like the Yaupon holly I sent JB. I got it from the Sumner estate in 2015 near Blacksburg VA. It was labeled with pencil. Lower left looks like a Katsora pen blank. Are those the two?

 

[Big Ry]

Top center looks like the Yaupon holly I sent JB. I got it from the Sumner estate in 2015 near Blacksburg VA. It was labeled with pencil. Lower left looks like a Katsora pen blank. Are those the two?

Thanks, Mark! Those are the two. I wouldn't have guessed the top was Holly, but now that you say it it very much looks like typical Holly with the green staining. I've never even heard of katsora, so that's a new one for me.

 

[Mr. Peet]

Thanks, Mark! Those are the two. I wouldn't have guessed the top was Holly, but now that you say it it very much looks like typical Holly with the green staining. I've never even heard of katsora, so that's a new one for me.

I bought the holly at auction, sold as burl. Once in hand, I saw it was likely a grown over branch. Still kind of cool. Cercidiphyllum japonicum - Katsura, think that is the right spelling.

 

[Big Ry]

I bought the holly at auction, sold as burl. Once in hand, I saw it was likely a grown over branch. Still kind of cool. Cercidiphyllum japonicum - Katsura, think that is the right spelling.

Thanks for the info. I'll be sure to mark it on these pieces. I've gotten much better about labeling things after realizing i didn't remember what anything in my collection was lol