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Living where I do, in a remote area, I like to
have a wide variety of woods on hand
as it is not possible to run down to my local
wood supplier and pick up something that I need. I like to work with
as wide a palatte of color and textures as possible, however, I tend
to favour the North American, and European hardwoods over the exotic
woods. I do have a few exotic species, some of which come from
certified sustainable sources. Most often I use these in limited
ways, often more as accent than primary wood; although there are
exceptions.
At this time a quick look at my inventory would
find things like the recent shipment from my favourite wood supplier,
A & M
Woods, which included: English holly,
Bird's eye maple, some air dried flitch cut planks of black walnut
and cherry (matched planks of each species), and the most impressive
of all and a real rarity in my shop: a huge plank (2"x36"x13') of air
dried padouk.
Some of the more common and favourite woods in the
wood storage:
- white birch
- European steamed pear
- Claro walnut (from California)
- eastern maple
- western curly maple
- yellow cedar
- western red cedar
- English sycamore (figured)
- apple
- bird's eye maple
- black walnut (eastern)
- pear wood (air dried)
- cherry
And some of the more exotic and unusual
species:
- Madrone burl, veneer (a spectacular
figure)
- Indonesian rosewood
- Honduras rosewood
- Macassar ebony
- redwood burl veneer (highly figured)
- carpathian elm burl, veneer
- amboyna cluster burl, veneer (must be seen to
be believed)
- curly cherry, veneer
- Padouk
- Satinwood
- and a couple of mystery woods that I
have ample stock of for a substantial piece but do no know the
name of...
There is more but it would get a bit much to go on
at this point...contact
me for more details if you have an idea or
want to know about a specific wood.
I support locally harvested and sawn woods in no
small way. My largest stock of any single species is by far that of
the northern white birch. (about 1000 bd ft in storage at the moment)
I am using this wood often and find it to be very fine for most
puposes.
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