Must be a burl bug!
What free wood did you find today?
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Hopefully the bug tempts me to sell some lol
Wow: I wonder who won the bug race!
Humidity, and possibly a wood peckerWow: I wonder who won the bug race!
I'm liking the sliced and sanded burl side more better than the bug side. That's beautiful.
Not exactly wood in regular form, but the house next door to me is being renovated.
The guys working there were going to throw out a 1/2 sheet of 1/2" plywood, & a 1/2 sheet of 3/4" plywood.
I hate to see it go to waste, so I asked for it & they gave it to me for free.
If it's free, it's me.
The guys working there were going to throw out a 1/2 sheet of 1/2" plywood, & a 1/2 sheet of 3/4" plywood.
I hate to see it go to waste, so I asked for it & they gave it to me for free.
If it's free, it's me.
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Congrats! At the price of plywood, that is a great deal!Not exactly wood in regular form, but the house next door to me is being renovated.
The guys working there were going to throw out a 1/2 of 1/2" plywood, & a 1/2 sheet of 3/4" plywood.
I hate to see it go to waste, so I asked for it & they gave it to me for free.
If it's free, it's me.
Yeah, never pass up free plywood as long as it's relatively flat and not all beat up. So many uses.
I found what appeared to be a mahogany or similar pallet in my run to the tile store today. Unfortunately it fell off the truck at a customers home who was intently building a couple jewelry/keepsake boxes for his granddaughters. Figured he might get it used before the end of the 2020s. And I might not...
Sorry didn't take a picture. Might remember to take a picture of the acacia one this weekend. that followed me home from the previous trip to the tile store.
Love these little stray pallets. Like Opie said to his pa, the string just helps the stray follow..
Sorry didn't take a picture. Might remember to take a picture of the acacia one this weekend. that followed me home from the previous trip to the tile store.
Love these little stray pallets. Like Opie said to his pa, the string just helps the stray follow..
One man’s trash is another man’s, “oh, heck yeah!”. I found this pile of driftwood dumped in the countryside near my home and thought it looked like great firewood. Unfortunately, the first day I saw it, there was already a resident cobra, so I decided to wait a bit to get it. I loaded some up , took it into my land and began splitting pieces. Right away found out a lot of it was Hinoki cypress. Then split this larger piece and BAM! the whole center was red. Nice piece of Coffinwood it turns out.
Great find! What a bonanza! Always have to be mindful of critters!
Beautiful find! But I want to know more about the cobra.
They are everywhere where I live. I usually get a handful in my house each year that my dogs will kill. This little one had his head poking out upside down from the wood pile. I thought it was a beetle at first and got closer to see what I was looking at. They are fine if you leave them alone. It’s more just not stepping on them or accidentally touching them.
I guess it was a Chinese cobra - this site show it as the only cobra in Taiwan and one of the more common snakes over all.
Snakes of Taiwan
Snakes of Taiwan
Yes, they are everywhere here. That website you mentioned is super useful. I’ve been recommending it to people for years. Kind of scary how many highly venomous snakes are the most common snakes here. I actually had a giant Taiwan Beauty Snake right outside my door the other day. Lovely non-venomous snake.
This is calicotome villosa, the thorniest plant I've seen. They are small, and those that are exceptionally big (3" diameter) are mostly full of defects. Those that have no defects are mostly infested by carpenter ants.
By the way this also had a nice spider on top!
By the way this also had a nice spider on top!
You sent me some of that. I can’t wait to open some up now.
I love shrub-type woods. People overlook them because they can’t yield lumber often, but man are they cool sometimes! Would love to make a bow out of that stuff
I agree. Plus sometimes they are not actually shrubs. This below is rhamnus alaternus. A shrub...but I have seen many 10" stems and 10m tall.
Impossible. The way the tree grows creates defects every 5-10":
I love the contrasting grain patterns in those woods Paolo. How stable are they? Can you use the entire board like that and maintain that contrast?