An arborist / sawyer/woodworker friend lost his lease and
has been selling off much of 6 or 8 years of collected
wood that he doesn't want to move to his new location.
For four consecutive Saturdays he's been making local
woodworkers very happy selling great stuff at great
prices, with claro and black walnut slabs at actually
affordable prices in 6/4. 8/4 and 10/4 thicknesses.
Picked up some wide camphor boards, quilted maple,
spalted maple, ash and a boatload of claro and black
walnut slabs, three nice crotch slabs - two with
areas of feather grain.

Four weekends of "this stack over here is all I can
afford" incrementally came to almost $700. Shouldn't
have to buy anything but ply for the next five or six
years.

Posted pics of some of the goodies in a.b.p.w. under
the subject Got Wood.

Sure wish I could afford the rosewood he had - but
perhaps another time. He does have a lot of very
nice veneer for sale and does mail order. Check out
his site

http://www.saratogatreeservice.com/Veneer/veneer_01.htm

Many local woodworkers will be saying "Thank You Blair"
as they work their way through the treasures they got
from him over the last four Saturdays.

Wood Is GOOOOOOD!

charlie b

charlie b wrote:
An arborist / sawyer/woodworker friend lost his lease and
has been selling off much of 6 or 8 years of collected
wood that he doesn't want to move to his new location.

Very nice wood. I think I'd be afraid to cut in to a slab of spalted maple.

I bought one of cocobolo I felt almost the same about, but one end of it
was bad because the mill band ran astray, and I managed to cut that end off.

I resawed it and got a pleasant surprise inside. It's different, at
first, than the long-exposed outside.

I also bought it because it was more heavily figured than any board of
any wood (except the burl in the back) in the shop.

I sit and hold a piece in my hands and think of all the things to do
with it. If I began at this point it would all be used for veneer
(except what I'm already using) because... because there'd be more.

It doesn't speak to me. But I can just sit and look at it and lose
the time.

er
--
email not valid