General Wood porn

[Limpy]

Some of you know I work in the woodworking industry and I am building, buying, and selling different types of wood. The odd time I get the chance to find some incredible individual pieces of wood, build something cool, and or supply someone with cool shit and they build something awesome.

Not sure if any of you are nerds like me but I think this shit is pretty cool and it's what I've been up to lately.

This wood is called Chechen and I buy it from Mexico. This wood is super dense and this piece has a "curly figure" to it which causes the water shine like effect.

Easily my favorite wood I sell. It's called Santos Rosewood.

Just got some of this in today, Panama Rosewood.

Chechen again, this time in the sun.

An intarsia piece

And another

A customer bought some maple, cherry, and walnut from me and made this. He was generous and dropped this off for us at the store.

 

[Limpy]

This a giant slab of padauk from Central Africa. It's a really cool wood because it machines really well and it has a red-orange color to the heartwood. A customer bought this piece for a table so we sanded it and were just starting to finish the top.

If you look in the back you can see a giant stump. Yes, I sell stumps to people and they pay thousands for them if it's hardwood. That one is white oak.

 

[Filthy]

i have some gunstocks that were sold to me at ridiculously low prices, i'll see if I can find pics.

I'm also doing a project to build a copy of my childhood toy box...it was built out of plywood and painted by family friends.

could you recommend some hardwoods that will look good stained to invoke the red and green? All I can think of is cherry and lingum vitae.

sorry for adding plywood to your wood porn.
I'll try and find the gunstock blanks and redeem myself.

 

[Jdog93]

Wood.

 

[Limpy]

i have some gunstocks that were sold to me at ridiculously low prices, i'll see if I can find pics.

I'm also doing a project to build a copy of my childhood toy box...it was built out of plywood and painted by family friends.

could you recommend some hardwoods that will look good stained to invoke the red and green? All I can think of is cherry and lingum vitae.

sorry for adding plywood to your wood porn.
I'll try and find the gunstock blanks and redeem myself.

That's a really cool idea. Not sure what sort of a look you are going for or what sort of a price range you are in. Domestic hardwoods native to North America of course are much cheaper but they can tend to be on the boring side. I find oak has too much grain, birch can be all over the place with the color, maple can stain really uneven, walnut is too dark for what you are after, ash and hickory are good options but can look like oak because of the grain. I think cherry is a really good option for the red since it holds stain well and isn't overly expensive.

Are you going to use hardwood veneer plywood or solid wood?

Cherry is my favorite wood from this continent, no doubt.

Maple would work for the top but I'd add a wood conditioner first so the stain goes on uniform. Maple can look really cool, if you have some you should look for something with figuring or birdseye in it. Look into aniline dyes, they can do a really good job on woods like maple if you are after good color. I would also recommend using a gel stain since it goes on evenly and tends to be richer in color.

 

[Limpy]

As for the white you can use aspen. Aspen is a really light colored wood, balsa or basswood could pass off for it as well or use some maple and white-wash stain.

Hickory can be really white as well in certain pieces.

 

[Rambo John J]

Love me some nice wood

Only got Black Oaks

Tons of it...like 66-100 acres if you include national forest

 

[Rambo John J]

Mountain mahogany also ....shit is hard as it gets....dulls my chainsaw blade like crazy

some stumps are 2-3 feet diameter but probably 60-80 yrs old( less than 25 inches rain yearly..Norcal Yreka area)

 

[Limpy]

If any of our pieces split and get totally fucked we router in "bowtie" designs into the crack and cut out exact matching bowties out of typically a contrasting wood to keep it from splitting any more.It's almost like a stitch for wood. At first I thought it looked fucking stupid but our clients seem to like it so we buy a shit piece of wood for like $50 and turn it into $1000 depending on the size and type of wood.

In this case it was a split cherry mantle with maple bowties that sold for around $500.

 

[Rambo John J]

If any of our pieces split and get totally fucked we router in "bowtie" designs into the crack and cut out exact matching bowties out of typically a contrasting wood to keep it from splitting any more.It's almost like a stitch for wood. At first I thought it looked fucking stupid but our clients seem to like it so we buy a shit piece of wood for like $50 and turn it into $1000 depending on the size and type of wood.

In this case it was a split cherry mantle with maple bowties that sold for around $500.

wow...I don't like that...but glad someone does

cool process to get those bow ties in I reckon

I build all ranges of stuff in wood of all types(except the really spend stuff like you sell) and that looks a bit tricky to pull off

 

[Jesus X]

This thread needs more cocobolo.

 

[Lukewarm Carl]

wow...I don't like that...but glad someone does

cool process to get those bow ties in I reckon

Same. The really large bowties and the massive contrast in color is what does it for me. The smaller ones are OK but i think I'd prefer it if they were darker in color instead of being so light.

Still it gives me an idea in case any of the sugar maple we harvested splits on us.

 

[Filthy]

Here are the walnut shotgun blanks. I have an old Winchester 1897 shotgun that I'm going to have these cut for...it was my grandpa's, so I wanted to do something nice. This is one of 3 sets of shotgun blanks that I got for $50. It's good to have a friend that owns a lumber mill in Oregon.

BTW - if you're in the market for stumps, my mom is having a couple dozen big walnut trees taken out at the farm. Stumps will abound.

 

[Lukewarm Carl]

Will you post a few pics of your wood that has live edges?

 

[Jdog93]

View: https://youtu.be/cheJymRngnA


L @A fuckin' cat
What you think of this guys setup.
Considering makeing a squat rack like his.
I hear he has instructional videos aswell.

 

[Limpy]

 

[Limpy]

No stain, no paint, nothing but natural wood color and grain.

My dad made this in only a few hours.

 

[Rambo John J]

No stain, no paint, nothing but natural wood color and grain.

My dad made this in only a few hours.

whoa
how?...hard to fathom

all that wood looks stained/glossed to me

 

[Mix6APlix]

Cool thread.

 

[Limpy]

whoa
how?...hard to fathom

all that wood looks stained/glossed to me

My dad is an expert woodworker, he's been doing this sort of thing for over fifty years so he has an eye for things. I order in boards and he comes to the store and lays them out, he stares at them for a bit then asks me to cut a few inches off of that one, two feet of that one, ect. He is basically building what he has in mind in his head using color and grain. I've met a lot of talented people but none of them are even close to my dad. If I can know 10% of what he knows then I will be an expert.

So my dad whipped together that flower in two hours using only a band saw and a scroll saw.

The stem is made of Verawood. One of the only naturally green woods after it is dried. Greenheart and poplar are two of the other common woods that have tones of green.

The center of the flower is an unusual piece of maple. Maple can come in lots of different forms from birdseye, to quilted, to fiddleback, ect. This is a piece of spalted maple. Fungus basically attacks the wood causing black marks that turn into almost dark veins throughout the wood. The way my dad cut this out he caught just the "fungus ends" if you will.

This is what spalted maple generally looks like

The red leaves are padauk from Africa

the purple leaves are purpleheart from Brazil,

and the leaves far in the back are sassafras from the U.S.A. They were carefully cut showing the endgrain. Very brittle.

To finish it he polishes it using nothing but a Festool sander with a 4000 grit sanding sponge then a sheep skin polishing pad using the natural oils in the wood.

 

[Limpy]

Will you post a few pics of your wood that has live edges?

I will try to do this tomorrow. I just got in a huge piece of Wenge in. One of my favorite woods for sure.

 

[Limpy]

View: https://youtu.be/cheJymRngnA


L @A fuckin' cat
What you think of this guys setup.
Considering makeing a squat rack like his.
I hear he has instructional videos aswell.

I guess it would be cheaper to make it out of wood. I think.

He is a strong dude so if he can have 800 pounds on it then I guess it's strong enough. You can buy spruce lumber for really cheap, it's the obvious choice. If you want a little more strength then go with fir or larch but you will pay quite a bit more. DO NOT use a hardwood because it will cost way too much and DO NOT use cedar because it is way too soft.

 

[Limpy]

This thread needs more cocobolo.

I will take a pic tomorrow if I remember. I have a little piece left over and it has awesome color in it from orange to yellow to brown to red and purple.

 

[Limpy]

Here are the walnut shotgun blanks. I have an old Winchester 1897 shotgun that I'm going to have these cut for...it was my grandpa's, so I wanted to do something nice. This is one of 3 sets of shotgun blanks that I got for $50. It's good to have a friend that owns a lumber mill in Oregon.

BTW - if you're in the market for stumps, my mom is having a couple dozen big walnut trees taken out at the farm. Stumps will abound.

Did you do anything with these?

 

[Jdog93]

I guess it would be cheaper to make it out of wood. I think.

He is a strong dude so if he can have 800 pounds on it then I guess it's strong enough. You can buy spruce lumber for really cheap, it's the obvious choice. If you want a little more strength then go with fir or larch but you will pay quite a bit more. DO NOT use a hardwood because it will cost way too much and DO NOT use cedar because it is way too soft.

Thanks for the info!

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