Bell Forest Products?

Chiro75

Chiro75

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Anyone done business with Bell Forest Products? They seem to have nice prices on 1/4" thick birdseye and curly maple. Thanks!
 
Why dont you just skip the middle-man Steve and just buy Brians knives and sell them. :) Ya loser.
 
I have a bunch of yours that no one wants, even an 50% off, so I don't want to make that same mistake twice. ;) And, for the record, I was looking at dying methods and junk for curly maple last week. IG can vouch for me because he offered to have me send some maple that I already have to him for dying/stabilization, so nanny nanny poo poo on you! :D
 
You know you dont have the $75,000 that my knives command. :0

Never tried their products to be on topic.
 
Sometimes you run across these Internet businesses that never update their site, etc, so I want to be sure they exist before I place an order. Other woods are priced nicely, too. Lots of stuff for $1-$3 for 1/4"x1.5"x9", around $5 for most things at the 18" length. I bought blocks of curly maple at the show I went to way back when, so if I could score "scales" at decent prices I'd just as soon do that. FWIW, I want to use the curly maple because I have some silver wire I want to inlay. I've done it 2-3 times on koa and it looks/works our really nice, but I'd rather conserve my koa and use maple if I can. Been researching the going methods for dying/coloring it, finishing it, etc, and it was kind of a coincidence that Brian used it at the same time. I just used green canvas Micarta on a knife for the first time over the weekend, so he'd really better watch out! :D
 
Oh yeah, I used Greena and black on my new EDC too ;)
I have trouble bouncing all the different specs on jobs. I am lucky I havent glued the wrong material on the wrong knife yet!
 
I was working on 3 Tactical Orange Peelers all at once over the weekend. I was sort of doing each job on all three, like a factory, rather than doing each one start to finish. I've done this in the past and drilled the pins in the wrong place for the wrong knife, etc. This time I was smart and always put the knife and scales back on the same hook on my board so nothing would get misplaced. Worked out nicely, and no screw ups. Although, I did a nice job splintering around a 1/4" hole in some F18 carbon fiber. Like an idiot I dusted the scale off and bingo, two GIGANTIC spears of carbon fiber in my thumb. Took about 30 minutes with tweezers and a razor blade to dig them out and the longer one was almost straight down. Felt like it was in the bone! :eek:
 
I've used them (thru their ebay store) several times for both curly and birdseye hard maple boards/pieces. Great wood, great service. At least in my experience, the wood I got was at least as good as it appeared to be in their photos (they didn't doctor their photos to make the wood appear better than it actually was).

-- Dwight
 
Thanks, Dwight. That's what I needed to know! You'd think living in MI I'd just be able to pick the stuff up off the ground, but unfortunately, no. Not even a decent local supplier around. :confused:
 
Got my stuff from Bell Forest and it's nice! The birdseye maple is outstanding and the curly looks great from what I can tell, too. Also ordered some olivewood to play with and it looks pretty good, too. What's the best method for making birdseye look the best? Would I use leather dye like on curly, or what?
 
Chiro75 said:
IG can vouch for me because he offered to have me send some maple that I already have to him for dying/stabilization, so nanny nanny poo poo on you! :D
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Dude, I will not vouch for you until I get some pins. :rolleyes: :p :D You should work with the carbon fiber like the guys in the assembly dept. where I work. Cuts, splitters and rashes. That stuff is just nasty to work with. :eek:
 
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