Nice stash you got there David. I’m positive you’ll put them all to good use
Exotic wood haul
Sandy and I traveled over to MS yesterday to visit her folks and we stopped by her sister's house for a bit. My BIL gave me 4 boxes of exotic woods and said he'll be getting more in a month or two. I'll cut a 16" Longworth chuck for him as trade - win/win! I'm pretty good at identifying exotic woods but I only know about 1/3 of these. I couldn't fit it all on the table saw but this is all of it this time.
No idea on what I'll do with all of it but I'm sure some of it will become guitar headstock plates, rosette rings, tail wedges, etc.
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No idea on what I'll do with all of it but I'm sure some of it will become guitar headstock plates, rosette rings, tail wedges, etc.
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Just the burl alone is worth a pretty penny. I saw a video of a Japanese craftsman a few years ago gluing stacks of wood together and then slicing off thin veneers with a wide wooden plane and using them to cover smallish boxes. The result was amazing. I've been wanting to try it ever since I saw the video but you need a lot of different colored woods to do it like you have laying there and the only hardwood I have available is white birch. Apparently there is only one part of Japan where this type work is done and it's because they have quite a variety of trees growing there. The box in the video looked like the one in the attachment but had black, red, and green woods in it and was much more colorful than this example.
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This piece? No idea. It's light as a feather and I assume it's something spalted. One piece has a high gloss yellowish finish, not sure why.
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