Is anybody in here really good with wood?

DannyinJapan

DannyinJapan

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I need a custom piece done, not large, but very well done.
Its about the size of a piece of paper, but it has to be very good wood and shaped and polished just right.
I can pay up to 150$ depending on what kind of wood and how good you can make it. (please take it easy on me, Im a teacher)
I need to get this project started ASAP.
So email me if yo uare interested.
Thanks
 
A well sanded 8 x 11" slab of wood? what the heck?

Ask Ferguson or some of the chucks. I can do wood, but not to pay for.
My last project was a basketball sized twisted roots polyurathaned stump. The kind that ends up in a garage sale with a lamp attached for 10 bucks.


munk
 
munk said:
My last project was a basketball sized twisted roots polyurathaned stump. The kind that ends up in a garage sale with a lamp attached for 10 bucks.

munk
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Munk a friend of mine and the guy who recruited me from Oklahoma to the Deutsch Company in Banning had one of those lamps but you wouldn't find it in a yard sale with ten bux on it.
Maybe a high end furniture place with fifteen hundred bux on it.:eek:
It was an almost perfectly ovaled and scalloped root burl of a Manzinita.
It stood a good 15" high and at least 12"-14" around in the middle! Absolutely stunning!!!!:D

When he dug it out fresh he wasn't aware of the fine if you got caught taking them.
I have a fair to middlin burl myself, ain't sayin where I got it though.

DIJ, I'm like Bruise, whacha got in mind? :confused: If you don't wanna say here drop me an email and I'll let you know if I can, wanna and/or will, or if my Barbie can, wansa and/or will.;) :)
 
ITs cool. I need a new Bachi (plectrum) for my Satsuma Biwa (Japanese lute).
Its not complicated, but the prices over here are just immorally high.
I will not pay 500$ for a triangular plank of wood.
See that triangular thing in his hand?
the high class ones go for 1700$!!!
The entry level ones are 500$
I aint paying that much. I aint.
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DIJ it would be easier to see if it were a drawing. Do you mean that great big triangle that looks like it's over the strings on the instrument?!?!?!? :eek:

Does it have precise measurements that must be followed or what? Just a triangular piece of wood ought to be in your list of talents, so what's the deal? :confused: :rolleyes:

Also does it need to be a light wood like Cedar or something heavier like Mahogany?:confused:
More info needed be-four you can get an answer my friend.;) :p
 
You mean that monster pick? ;)

Doesn't look too bad.

Can you send over the old one for a model?

Surely one of these guy's have the talent. I'd seriously think about it, but I'd just leave it half done like the rest of my projects. :rolleyes: Gotta know your limitations, right?

Brian
 
well, Kim Taylor in Canada has accepted the order and hes pretty damn good so I think hell make me a great one and he agreed that the price would be substantially lower than 500$
It does have precise measurements and the handle is concave and polished and it needs to be very well done, but it still aint worth 1700$
Maybe solid platinum...
 
Danny, find out what kind of wood they use. It might make a difference. Not a $500 difference, but if you can use the same wood you might be happier with the end result.
 
DannyinJapan said:
well, Kim Taylor in Canada has accepted the order and hes pretty damn good so I think hell make me a great one and he agreed that the price would be substantially lower than 500$.
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Kim made me a custom bokken out of ipe a few years ago. The quality was very high, and the price was very fair. I'm sure you'll be happy with his work, Danny... ;)
 
I found this much out: Good knifemakers and wood workers/carvers are busy!
they have all kinds of business and they get paid well for their work.
IT tells me that the world IS NOT completely satisfied with extruded plastic and aluminum.
I think that has something to do with the reason for the HI cantina.
 
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