Face jointing some maple for my dresser drawers and Whamo! One of the
pieces has birds eye all over the place! I fee like pulling it out and
using it for something else. It seems a shame to use birds eye or a drawer
back.?.



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In my excitement I wrote kind of sloppy, sorry...

I am very tempted to pull it out and use it for something else.

How often do you find "heavy" birds eye in common maple stock??

That stuff is normally pretty expensive. I bought just enough maple for
this job.

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"stoutman" .@. wrote in message
. ..
Face jointing some maple for my dresser drawers and Whamo! One of the
pieces has birds eye all over the place! I fee like pulling it out and
using it for something else. It seems a shame to use birds eye or a
drawer back.?.



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http://www.garagewoodworks.com
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"stoutman" .@. wrote in message
. ..
Face jointing some maple for my dresser drawers and Whamo! One of the
pieces has birds eye all over the place! I fee like pulling it out and
using it for something else. It seems a shame to use birds eye or a
drawer back.?.

I agree with your sentiment, but as a practical matter, saving little scraps
of wood is not a great idea. I have a whole shelf of them, and never seem
to find a use for them. They are very pretty though.

If you need it for the drawer, use it for the drawer.

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 20:48:22 GMT, "stoutman" .@. wrote:

In my excitement I wrote kind of sloppy, sorry...

I am very tempted to pull it out and use it for something else.

How often do you find "heavy" birds eye in common maple stock??

That stuff is normally pretty expensive. I bought just enough maple for
this job.

Hopefully you have a hardware lumber supplier close to you. It would be
a shame to waste birdseye on a drawer back (make that, it would be a
travesty and a sin of the highest order ;-) ). If at all possible, get
yourself another piece or pieces of maple and save the birdseye for
something you can really use to show it off.




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Hopefully you have a hardware lumber supplier close to you.

My closest one is Wall lumber. Its 30-40 miles away. I find it very
strange that High Point NC is the furniture capitol of the world, but lumber
yards are scarce.?. Only 2 around me and both are the same distance away.

It would be a shame to waste birdseye on a drawer back (make that, it would
be a
travesty and a sin of the highest order ;-) ).

That's what I was thinking. I think I'm going to just say easy come easy
go and use it in the drawer. I hope the woodworking gods can forgive me.

Please forgive my ignorance, I am humble, novice tool collector. What
is this magnifiscent thing you call a birds eye? Where might a humble
beginner find a picture of a birds eye?

Sumdume in Florida


stoutman wrote:
Face jointing some maple for my dresser drawers and Whamo! One of the
pieces has birds eye all over the place! I fee like pulling it out and
using it for something else. It seems a shame to use birds eye or a drawer
back.?.



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Stoutman
http://www.garagewoodworks.com
(Featuring a NEW look)

wrote in message
ups.com...
Please forgive my ignorance, I am humble, novice tool collector. What
is this magnifiscent thing you call a birds eye? Where might a humble
beginner find a picture of a birds eye?

Sumdume in Florida


Check out one of my projects. I used birds-eye maple for the top of a
table. Birds eye is a deformity? in maple that actually looks like a little
birds eye.

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/pictures/DCP00622.jpg



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I have a whole bunch of rough cut maple and live just up the road from
you. I'll gladly sell you a board or trade you for some of that birds
eye if you want.

Which do you like better, Walls or The Hardwood Store?

Josh

"Josh" wrote in message
oups.com...
I have a whole bunch of rough cut maple and live just up the road from
you. I'll gladly sell you a board or trade you for some of that birds
eye if you want.

Which do you like better, Walls or The Hardwood Store?


I decided to just go with it and I already glued them up.

I have been to both and I prefer Wall lumber mainly because the drive is a
little easier with a bunch of lumber hanging out of the back of my SUV
(straight down Eastchester). I think Wall Lumber is a little cheaper also.

Josh

Thanks for the offer though!

stoutman wrote:

Check out one of my projects. I used birds-eye maple for the top of a
table. Birds eye is a deformity? in maple that actually looks like a little
birds eye.

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/pictures/DCP00622.jpg

Are those "flash" buttons? I don't use a Macromedia flash player (I
couldn't stomach the license).

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"stoutman" .@. wrote in message

I decided to just go with it and I already glued them up.

It a drawer back, right? Go ahead and paint it too .. might as well really
**** of the woodworking gods while you have a chance.

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"stoutman" .@. wrote in message

I decided to just go with it and I already glued them up.

It a drawer back, right? Go ahead and paint it too .. might as well really
**** of the woodworking gods while you have a chance.

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Last update: 12/13/05



I think for an encore I'm gonna stain some cherry!
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yep. It's Flash, sorry!

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On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:12:45 GMT, "stoutman" .@. wrote:


"Swingman" wrote in message
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"stoutman" .@. wrote in message

I decided to just go with it and I already glued them up.

It a drawer back, right? Go ahead and paint it too .. might as well really
**** of the woodworking gods while you have a chance.

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Last update: 12/13/05



I think for an encore I'm gonna stain some cherry!


good idea... try a water based light oak... *barf*



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stoutman wrote:
Face jointing some maple for my dresser drawers and Whamo! One of the
pieces has birds eye all over the place! I fee like pulling it out and
using it for something else. It seems a shame to use birds eye or a drawer
back.?.



You can save it for the top of a keeping box or jewelry box or some
such.

Believe it or not I have seen antiques where all the drawer sides
and backs were bird's eye maple. At one time bird's eye was
considered to be a defect.

There seems to be a similar attitutde today toward needle-scarred
pine--you never see it in furniture where it shows. Yet needle-scars
in softwoods are essentially the same figure as bird's eye in
hardwoods!

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On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:14:57 -0800, Enoch Root
wrote:

stoutman wrote:

Check out one of my projects. I used birds-eye maple for the top of a
table. Birds eye is a deformity? in maple that actually looks like a little
birds eye.

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/pictures/DCP00622.jpg

Are those "flash" buttons? I don't use a Macromedia flash player (I
couldn't stomach the license).


Just out of curiosity, what parts of the license did you find
objectionable (beyond the general, "all obligations are upon you, the user,
we ain't responsible for nothing, nowhere, noway regardless of whether it's
our fault or not" software license nonsense)?




er


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Sun, Feb 5, 2006, 12:53am (EST+5) .@. (stoutman) doth pray in vain:
snip I hope the woodworking gods can forgive me.

Thw Woodworking Gods are too busy wondering why you don't go back
to whereever you got the maple, and see if you can't get some more of
the fancy stuff. Fancy wood don't grow on trees.



JOAT
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