This is a pile of offcuts from making gunstocks. Imagine the figure in the wood, much of it has fiddleback, some even is marbled Bastogne. The pile, if stored inside would be quite valuable but it wasn’t. There is actually a lot of salvageable wood but it is just a tragedy. The guy figures there is 40 pallets of the “better” wood left. He offered it to me for $5,000 but I just can’t do it. Ticks me off to see such beautiful wood wasted.
Most of what you see is 2 1/2″ thick slabs…
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Where is it?
Now that is a sad sight! Just think of the possibilities gone to waste. All those possible tables, chairs, dressers, cabinets, carvings!
Reminds me of a situation quite a few years ago when we burned wood one year for the winter, had some firewood delivered unsplit. Guy delivered beautiful Maple and Beech, some 24" across, solid, no rot, made me sick to split it, but young and stupid, out of work and winter coming on, not into woodworking then. But still makes me sad to think of it.
And right now there are some ( estimated 150,000 trees down ) beautiful hardwood trees blown down by the hurricane last October in Halifax, Nova Scotia, still laying on the ground slowly being cleaned up. I hope my woodworking friends there are reaping some of the rewards of such devistation. I've seen the photos, Maples, Beech, Oak, and a host of others, some 250 years old, laid waste. City Public Gardens, with some trees planted by the Victorian Garrison in the late 1800's is a mess, as is Point Pleasant Park.
Bob
You aught to see the Honduras Mahogany off-cuts from a door manufacturing company here in Houston. They send a large dumpster load to the dump each week. Up to 12/4 thick, 20" wide and 3'-4' long. And they pay a large amount to get each load hauled off!
PlaneWood by Mike_in_Katy (maker of fine sawdust!)
PlaneWood
Sounds like a job for an ebay seller. Pack up a box, take a picture and sell it off.
It will take another $5,000 to get it in shape to work. You should shoot the person responsible.
Lynn Roy Porter
I am buying three pallets of slightly better stuff for use in making trinkets and small wood gun items.
This could become a cottage industry.
A lot of the Walnut I use is less than a couple feet long, by the time I make rails and raised panels or home-cut veneer. Some of the pieces look like they could become great table legs. I would be glad to buy quite a bit of it, especially with interesting grain, if you sold it at a price that worked out well after shipping (where is this wood located?).
Sounds like PlaneWood could do the same for the Mahogany leftovers in Houston.
________________________Charlie Plesums Austin, Texashttp://www.plesums.com/wood
The wood is in Northern California. I deal with truck shipping a lot and can get deccent deals.
Michael
Yeah, that's all I need! I been laid up all day today with muscle spasms in my back. Ain't fun either!
But there are gold mines out there for the young cash-strapped wood workers. Just gotta be inovative.
I throw away a 5 gallon bucket of rosewood scraps every couple weeks or so. To small for me to do anything with. I do save all the Brazilian Rosewood scraps though. I think that stuff costs me something like $25 a pound.
PlaneWood by Mike_in_Katy (maker of fine sawdust!)PlaneWood
What size are the scraps? I would assume since your making knobs and handles for planes but the scrap must be pretty small? If not, I might be interested in a box just to have to make small knobs or pulls.
Michael
what's a decent price for scrap odds and ends of ebony by the pound?
thanks,
m
Don't know. Don't have any Ebony scraps right now.
I did just pay $30 each for two 1.5" x 1.5" x 24" Ebony turning squares. Those will have to be first trimmed to 1" before I turn them. May have some scraps then.
PlaneWood by Mike_in_Katy (maker of fine sawdust!)PlaneWood
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