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Back then I checked the branches and they appeared fuzzy, so I concluded it is typhina.
What free wood did you find today?
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Back then I checked the branches and they appeared fuzzy, so I concluded it is typhina.
Looks like Staghorn.
And here are some samples. They are sanded to #1500 and some of them shine like gold! (I will post gifs when ready...)
Wow. That’s a lot of sample material. What do you do with wood that you have sent through machine? Do you keep it? You could probably sell some of it as knife scales.
Yeah, maybe one day. For now I am keeping it for future reference. Thanks for the hint!
I didn't find any free wood but maybe a good deal. A local furniture manufacturer is selling pallets of clear KD walnut shorts for approx $1/bdft. The problem is the pallets have a little over 500 feet. They are random width, 18" long and a mix of 5/4 and 6/4. Storage is a issue and I just don't know how I would ever use it all. I've been trying to get a friend to split a pallet with me but he hasn't bit on the deal yet.
Loads of Christmas presents out of that pallet!!!
You NEED to get this Walnut! Enough to share on WB! Chuck
I gots dibs on the crotchy pieces!
I expect it's pretty straight grain. My guess is that it's off cutts from furniture stock. They have truck loads of firewood priced scrap, probably someone figured out if they saved the better pieces it would be profitable. They also have 13" pieces for $400/pallet . 13" is pretty short for most projects. I don't know with shipping prices so high if selling would be practical.
Yeh, have a couple places like that, but luckily there is two places that sell some pretty interesting scrap. A drum company that makes solid wood drum bodies (steam bent) of some pretty nice wood. But have to get it before they steam it - occasionally one breaks on bending, and I've tried to straighten it out, but have not been successful - and it is 1/4" to 3/8" thick and sanded already. Also there is a rustic furniture maker that uses a lot of real purdy walnut (3 kinds), fancy redwood, black oak, and burly and curly maples, are among my favorites. He's a little pricey but has some really nice stuff and thick. He had a 10 foot plus diameter buckeye burl that was 4" thick once. He also still has some big slabs of lacy redwood - and still waiting on cut-off of one of those, but since they are up to $20K for a slab, they are slow movers. Here is a pic of a desk with bastogne walnut and doors of feathery crotch claro walnut.
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Have always admired littlebranch furniture. Never thought about getting their culls. Good stuff!
no... bad mikey
Kelly takes it pretty seriously. He is always making furniture that he takes to big furniture shows/contests. Sad for him that Nashville really doesn't "get it". Most of his sales are out of state, or people travel from other states to design and buy pieces. They are conveniently located just across the street from Metro Building Codes. Back in the day when I would pull permits more than I am doing now, I stocked up with a lot of his culls. At first, Kelly didn't pay much attention to the cut-offs. He would allow me to go through his trash stash and take what I wanted. He learned to take his private stash (i.e. real purdy wood) out of the shop as I found his private stash and bought some when he wasn't there and his employee did not know it was his private stash! He eventually started organizing the cut-offs a little (put them into big mobile racks). Then hired a guy who's job was to organize and sell the cut-offs. The shop was not open on weekends (a bummer for me), but the new guy convinced him to open the shop one Saturday a month for a wood sale. He was also a luthier and cut and offered a few very nice guitar tops and backs, along with a lot of knife blanks, pen blanks, and the like. Something went sour and he no longer works there. Then Kelly got a big CNC, mainly for flattening slabs. But he started thinking about ways to make things from his cut-offs in times it was not flattening slabs. But he still has big racks of cut-offs for sale. I've had to stay away as I just don't have the room to get a pickup truck load anymore. I've often thought about swinging some deal where I work in off-hours and use his machinery in his downtime to make things to sell. Just not the best location to be at night.
You NEED to get back into accumulating those cutoffs, for the sake of drooling WB members, if nothing else! Chuck
and that might keep him busy and stocked enough he'd quit sniping the deals i'm slow on
Now, that sounds like a plan! Well, as I think about it more, it seems to be more of a scheme! Not one I'm keen on. All that curly koa, feather crotches, and winged gidgee, et al, in the world will miss me!
I don’t know what winged gidgee is but I want some!