Anybody do wood stabilizing in Canada?

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Randydb

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Just that, is there a source for getting wood stabilized in Canada?

I live pretty close to the border and often bring purchases across, the only thing I have had issues with is bringing wood across. The Canadian border services didn't like the voids in some buckeye burl and maple burl I brought across. Spent a lot of hours convincing them there were no bugs in there and that I was going to immediately soak them in solvent to stabilize them (complete lie) when I got home. Also had a run in over some jatoba and cocobolla I was bringing across. They figured they were some other species that was endangered and prohibited. That was another looooonnnnng discussion with many phone calls. So if there is a Canadian supplier of this I would sure like to avoid the over the border thing.

Randy
 
They don't mind if you bring "treated" wood across. If I'm bringing stabilized wood across the border I make sure to tell the guards that the wood is treated.

I haven't found a wood stabilizing company in Canada so I sent a batch to wssi. The shipping was pricy but we'll worth it.

Woodstabilizer.com is a company based in BC that stabilizes their own wood. Some really good deals on their site and it is well stabilized. I've tried to convince them to stabilize some wood for me, but they aren't offering that service right now.
 
I was hoping you were wrong on this one Shane and someone would pop up and say "I do!" Oh well. I had to try.
 
Talk to turn tex in Texas and buy your own stabilizing system. Great folks and well worth the prices.
 
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