Wood Porn!

[louieatienza]

Thought it would be cool to start a thread about different woods. As much as I enjoy the ease and versatility of MDF, my favorite choice of material will always be solid woods. Here are some of the woods I've collected over the years, presented for your viewing pleasure, waiting to be made into something someone will cherish sometime, somewhere...

1) zebrawood, 8/4, very dense tropical wood, natural stripe pattern
2) quilt maple billet, 8/4, my favorite figured wood!
3) quilt maple, wetted to show the grain
4) curly maple, 4/4
5) curly claro walnut, 9/4 (getting very expensive!)
6) figured white oak , 8/4 (so heavily figured, it's a miracle it hasn't checked all over or fell apart!)
7) spalted ambrosia maple, 10/4(!),
8) philippine mahogany, 5/4, some of the most amazing flame I'vev seen in philippine mahogany!
9) western red cedar, 6/4, could have been deck framing, if not for the fact that it's completely quartersawn with super fine grain (i.e. guitar tops)

Hoping others will share their wood porn!

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[CarveOne]

I do love wood porn. (and machine porn) I'll try to take photos of my wood collection soon.

Zebrawood, quilted maple, bloodwood, purple heart, padauk, Bolivian rosewood, India rosewood, curly wandoo eucalyptus, Sidney bluegum eucalyptus, walnut, curly maple.

I purchased most of it for making custom single shot target pistol stocks, but dropped that interest after a while and went on to building CNC machines.

CarveOne

[louieatienza]

I do love wood porn. (and machine porn) I'll try to take photos of my wood collection soon.

Zebrawood, quilted maple, bloodwood, purple heart, padauk, Bolivian rosewood, India rosewood, curly wandoo eucalyptus, Sidney bluegum eucalyptus, walnut, curly maple.

I purchased most of it for making custom single shot target pistol stocks, but dropped that interest after a while and went on to building CNC machines.

CarveOne

No way! We build these machines so that we can do with these woods what would be time comsuming, or impractical, to do by hand!

I love padauk (vermillion) but the damn dust itches nose no matter what I do, and the dust gets everywhere! They come up with a new name for Bolivian rosewood almost every day (pau ferro, morado)! Sounds like you have some nice sticks there C1!

[CarveOne]

No way! We build these machines so that we can do with these woods what would be time comsuming, or impractical, to do by hand!

I love padauk (vermillion) but the damn dust itches nose no matter what I do, and the dust gets everywhere! They come up with a new name for Bolivian rosewood almost every day (pau ferro, morado)! Sounds like you have some nice sticks there C1!

Cocobolo is one that is an even worse for irritation for me. Yellow orange dust, irritating to the eyes and nose. Dust mask didn't stop it either. The resulting stock was worth it though. I laminated it with a quilted maple center slab to make a wide enough block.

That's a TC Contender single shot with JP Enterprises muzzle brake.

I posted the photo in another forum here a couple of years ago and can't locate it now with the forum search tool.

CarveOne

[CarveOne]

Photos of my wood collection. I edited this post to delete one photo and add three additional photos to keep it all together. List of photos left to right top to bottom order:

1. Pile of walnut chunks
2. Pecan limb
3. Walnut
4. Ash (lower), curly maple (upper)
5. Purple heart (slightly figured)
6. African Zebrawood
7. India rosewood rifle stock blank
8. Walnut block
9. Bolivian rosewood (left), bloodwood (right)
10. Bloodwood
11. Padauk
12. Sidney bluegum eucalyptus
13. Rock maple
14. Full view of all woods
15. Mahogany, quilted maple, cocobolo (darkens with age but was really bright colors initially)
16. Curly wandoo eucalyptus (lower), looks like walnut but is too heavy, dense, and hard for walnut. Don't remember what it is called (upper)

CarveOne

[ger21]

I can't afford all that cool wood, so I have to buy veneer.
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/woodwo...g_project.html

[CarveOne]

Mine has been accumulated over a 10 year span. That piece of quilted maple set me back a big chunk of money though, and only half of it is left now.

Most of the other stuff ran $9 to $16 per board foot.

Figured veneers can get expensive too.

CarveOne

[louieatienza]

Photos of my wood collection. I edited this post to delete one photo and add three additional photos to keep it all together. List of photos left to right top to bottom order:

1. Pile of walnut chunks
2. Pecan limb
3. Walnut
4. Ash (lower), curly maple (upper)
5. Purple heart (slightly figured)
6. African Zebrawood
7. India rosewood rifle stock blank
8. Walnut block
9. Bolivian rosewood (left), bloodwood (right)
10. Bloodwood
11. Padauk
12. Sidney bluegum eucalyptus
13. Rock maple
14. Full view of all woods
15. Mahogany, quilted maple, cocobolo (darkens with age but was really bright colors initially)
16. Curly wandoo eucalyptus (lower), looks like walnut but is too heavy, dense, and hard for walnut. Don't remember what it is called (upper)
CarveOne

Very nice! Love the look of the cocobolo... one of my favorites. Did you have a hard time with the glueup/finish? Cocobolo is pretty notorious for its oils...

[CarveOne]

Very nice! Love the look of the cocobolo... one of my favorites. Did you have a hard time with the glueup/finish? Cocobolo is pretty notorious for its oils...

Once it was cut to size and planed smooth I wiped it with a wet rag with acetone on it to remove the surface oils. I glued it with Tightbond III and clamped it. Once it was final sanded I wiped it down with acetone again and applied slow cure epoxy glue for the finish coats. Each coat was wet sanded with 400 grit wet/dry sand paper.

I added Brazilian rosewood grip caps and forend on a plain walnut rifle stock many years ago and polyurethane or epoxy wouldn't stick to it or cure properly. At that time I used lacquer thinner to remove the mess. Wetting the rosewood with it and immediately applying the finish before it even evaporated helped it to stick and cure enough before the oils wicked back up to the surface.

Here's a few more of my past wood projects.

CarveOne

[zool]

CARVE ONE:

What is your address and when are you going out to dinner??

[CarveOne]

CARVE ONE:

What is your address and when are you going out to dinner??

Noted, and you're at the top of the list of suspects.

CarveOne

[louieatienza]

CARVE ONE:

What is your address and when are you going out to dinner??

Very nice!... Love those clocks...

[CarveOne]

Thanks. I still have the purple heart "rocket clock", as I call it. The others are made from big leaf maple burl bowl turning blocks. Those were given to nephews as wedding gifts. The base plate is walnut. The red target pistol stock is padauk with quilted maple center slab.

CarveOne

[CarveOne]

Louie,

Looks like you and I are the only exotic wood collectors around here. Everyone else must be collecting extrusions and MDF.

CarveOne

[wkps2007]

I made a 8/4" Mahogany Table Top 52" x 30" with two rounded sides.

Biscuit Joined it out of a 8/4, 10" x 14' Piece of Genuine Mahogany.

Finished it with Epifanes.

Looks great, like one solid slab. Just need to weld up a nice aluminum frame for outdoor use.

[CarveOne]

I made a 8/4" Mahogany Table Top 52" x 30" with two rounded sides.

Biscuit Joined it out of a 8/4, 10" x 14' Piece of Genuine Mahogany.

Finished it with Epifanes.

Looks great, like one solid slab. Just need to weld up a nice aluminum frame for outdoor use.

Photos would be nice. Sounds interesting.

CarveOne

[canwong]

Nice works.

[zool]

I'd show you photos of the three pieces of 12/4 curly ash that had been air drying for 20-years .. except I made 8 stools and a coffee table for a customer. The stools had curly maple legs.

Then there is the stack of black walnut, a whole tree actually, I have been air drying for 11-years. The tree was 125-years old when cut. I bought it in the same town I live in, which is on Long Island Sound. It has dried to a gorgeous reddish color that is infused with sand. Destroys tools, but when it is finished it is unreal as the sand looks like pieces of gold when the light hits it.

There there is the stack of purple heat.. I do mean stack. 4/4 and varies in width from 11- to 14-inches, with lengths from 14- to 20-feet. Found in an old industrial building; the sellers who found it buried among other wood did not like the ugly purple/black color so I got it incredibly inexpensively. The wood apparently got went and turned black. A run though the sanded brought it back to life.

Then there is the mahogany that I salvaged from a 60-year old boat that was being crushed.

Then there is the ebony and cocobolo that I found in the dumpster[!!!!] here in the condo I live in. Some children of an older guy that lived here were cleaning his condo out, and throwing it away. They complained that their father had dragged it from house to house for decades. They said there was more "wood" and I could have it. There was a bit more ebony, and a ton of veneer that was 60-years old [it still was in the box it was shipped in .. with stamps]. Seems their father, a retired dentist, had luthiery as a hobby.

I will post some photos of the stools and the wood....

[CarveOne]

I could never have luck like that, but I came close a few years ago.

The mother of a guy I contracted with for five years passed away and we went over to her house to look at a few piles of wood that were stacked in the woods in the back yard. The piles were all black walnut boards that had been carefully cross stacked with old metal roofing over it. No telling how many years it had been there but it had all become severely damaged by being alternately cooked in the sun and damp from rain and humidity. None of it was useful for anything. I had been offered all of it for free if I would just haul it away. (grrrrrrr!) Must have been four full 5x10 trailer loads of it.


CarveOne

[louieatienza]

When my family moved into the house I live in 30 years ago, there was a small pile of wood taped together with a label saying "rosewood." Last year I rediscovered the pile of wood. Turns out to be brazilian rosewood... no big pieces, but big enough for fretboards. I do have some old brw veneer that I'd like to make boxes with...