On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:38:24 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:

On 7/2/2013 9:18 AM, Mike M wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:49:00 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:

I am looking for enough good mesquite to build a dining room table. Do
any of you know or have a suggestion as to where to get some in the SA
area? If coming from Houston I have no problem with going a bit further
if necessary.

Here I always figured it was available down your way. Over the years
I've accumalted about 100 BF of what they were calling brown mesquite
in the NW. Loved it's appearance and just kept buying it when
available. Of course thats kind of like the pile of old Burma Teak I
have from being apprenticed to the boat builder when it was only $5 a
board food. I better do something with it before I get to old to get
it out of the attic.

Mike M



It is available down here but unfortunately in Houston there are enough
woodworkers to snatch it all up. ;~)

It is however a more prevalent item in the mid and south Texas areas.
Basically the San Antonio and surrounding area and straight south from
there.

I too have accumulated chuncks but not enough to do any thing with
except maybe cut into veneers. I do have a 4x4x18" chunk that I got off
of my uncle's land, Charlotte, TX, some 35 years ago. Mesquite grew
wild there and he cut up the tree limbs for, cooking, fire wood. I
grabbed one of the hunks off of one of the bigger limbs.

How times change, I had a friend called bigfoot from the NW who was a
logger. Still have a few slabs of old growth maple from the Olympic
Penisula. Locally if you go into Eden Saw they have these amazing
slaps of conference table size. But they are in the Thousands of
dollars range. I'm lucky now to be helping a tree arbrorist. He
hires me or rents my excavator which gets me some good at least
turning stock. I'm actually stashing large rockery size rocks now. I
build a good rockery, but one of my next projects is a double pond
with about a 6' drop so I want to make the water meander thru the
rocks.