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I was futzen' around today and ran into a snag or two. Since I can't
post pictures here I parked some pics & thoughts at this temprary URL: http://www.haruteq.com/stuff/wood.htm Cheers, Bart. - **botox treatments: taxidermy on the living** Check my most up to date email address at: www.haruteq.com/contact.htm awesome banjo bridges, tabs, stained glass: www.haruteq.com |
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Sure would be a shame to burn that nice wood Bart, there must be lots
of other wood around your part of the world, I do have a bunch of Black Walnut, just in raw half log blanks, maybe we could trade some ?? Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo Bart V wrote: I was futzen' around today and ran into a snag or two. Since I can't post pictures here I parked some pics & thoughts at this temprary URL: http://www.haruteq.com/stuff/wood.htm Cheers, Bart. - **botox treatments: taxidermy on the living** Check my most up to date email address at: www.haruteq.com/contact.htm awesome banjo bridges, tabs, stained glass: www.haruteq.com |
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"Bart V" wrote in message ... I was futzen' around today and ran into a snag or two. Since I can't post pictures here I parked some pics & thoughts at this temprary URL: http://www.haruteq.com/stuff/wood.htm Cheers, Bart. - **botox treatments: taxidermy on the living** Check my most up to date email address at: www.haruteq.com/contact.htm awesome banjo bridges, tabs, stained glass: www.haruteq.com Did that wood come your way cheap or do you have a mess of turning to get done? I am sure most of us would like to be able to have some of that exotic stuff just piled up. Have a good one |
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Way cheap and with cheap I mean free, just elbow grease to go get it,
cut & stack it. It's totally outside-weathered, no drying/ageing required before putting it on the lathe, talk about ready to go... Last year, or is it two years already, I made this banjo out of the same stuff (the teak I used for the fretboard was also free): http://www.haruteq.com/newbanjo/newbanjo.htm Making a banjo was actually the reason I started learning this lathe thing. I first made a whole bunch of round thingies to practice on, including an extension for the post on my cheapo drill press else the banjo's rim wouldn't fit for finishing it. Now that I have that banjo, an incredible instrument by the way that I've performed with on stage many a time, the turning hoby is pretty much at the seen-it-done-it point. At the bottom of the page I just mentioned is a picture of a banjo bridge, I do use the lathe [with a sanding disk on it] for making those. Those bridges have become kinda famous in the banjo world and yes, I do use the same free wood for making those too. Before I started building this banjo I had never done any woodworking other than cutting 2X4's when finishing a basement or something. I've said it before but it deserves to be said again, the banjo would not have been possible without the help, advice and encouragement so many of the fine & friendly folks (Leo, Art, Darrell and many more) on this newsgroup had so generously fired my way. Along the way I've become a woodfreak and really started appreciating the beautiful treasures Mother Nature has made for our enjoyment. This particular wood, I'm pretty sure it's jatoba (probably a lower grade than furniture quality), real gorgeous stuff and I feel guilty about burning it in the fireplace. The FP "unfortunately" is an intregal part of our heating system, so the budget kinda depends on this stack but if anyone wants to trade me some regular firewood for it I'd be game for that (I'm in the Hamilton, Ontario area). Any more banjos in the offing? You betcha, there's plenty kept aside for that :))) Merry Christmas to all, Bart. - **botox treatments: taxidermy on the living** Check my most up to date email address at: www.haruteq.com/contact.htm awesome banjo bridges, tabs, stained glass: www.haruteq.com |
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Bart:
DAYUMMMMM! You're not a woodfreak, or even a woodphreak - but a wood whore! (derived actually from the word "hord" as in gather as much of something as you can and keep it FOREVER - in one form or another). This affliction can, if you let it, become VERY expensive, both in time, money and space. Like clamps, you can NEVER have too much wood - unless it's on top of you - that's a problem. When I saw the pic of some of your stash my heart sank - at first. Then I started thinking - relatively speaking - I'm "normal" and THAT guy is carzy - like a fox. Hopefully, my Envy Green hue will dissapate (sp?) before I have to go out in public. Maybe Kermit The Frog can get away with being green, but us mortals - well people look at you kind of funny if you're green. An arborist / sawyer / woodworker friend probably has more wood than you do - in board feet, probably not by types of wood. It's stashed all over his house, shop, property and at his office. I bring a roll of paper towels with me when I visit him - drool is hard to get out of wood. charlie b |
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You're not a woodfreak, or even a woodphreak - but a wood whore!
LOL!!! Truth be told, four years ago Santa treated me on that lathe with the stern warning that this was the weapon of choice to get rid of all them too-nice-to-burn stacked pieces of junk screwing up my wife's parking spot in our garage and that resistance is futile. Banjos anyone, free lessons included... :))) Bart. - **botox treatments: taxidermy on the living** Check my most up to date email address at: www.haruteq.com/contact.htm awesome banjo bridges, tabs, stained glass: www.haruteq.com |
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Bart V wrote: I was futzen' around today and ran into a snag or two. Since I can't post pictures here I parked some pics & thoughts at this temprary URL: http://www.haruteq.com/stuff/wood.htm Cheers, Bart. Come on man.. don't burn it.. weigh a few pieces and see how much it would cost to ship. I bet you could sell it on ebay for plenty of money to buy firewood. Even if you didn't make much of a profit off selling on ebay, at least the wood wouldn't be wasted by burning it. I'd be interested in buying some. It's obviously not cost efficient for me to mail firewood back to you though. Email me at the address I posted if you're interested. |
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