Purple! Because Ice cream has no bones!

Jared here is one of the finished boards in herringbone I have one I'm cutting up for hidden tang handles.
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That is some cool stuff right chair. That will give a wild pattern, Damascote!
 
lessismore said:
That is some cool stuff right chair. That will give a wild pattern, Damascote!
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If I get some time, I'm a gonna try a eight piece star pattern. I'll cut eight wedges at 22.5 degrees on each side and see how it turns out. The hard part will be gluing it up.
 
Dopic1 said:
Thanks Jared,

I went to a wood auction back in May held at a local farm. It was an old PA Dutch guy that use to broker domestic and exotic woods. My guess is he has been doing it for years, on the day of the auction there were four full barns of an estimated 450,000 board feet of lumber. I've been building furniture and wood turning for at least 25 years, I have never seen so much wood in my life, there were species I've never heard of, a couple thousand feet of old Chestnut. Walnut and cherry crotches that were 6 or 7 ft wide, 5 inches thick and 15 feet long. It was freaking unbelievable, the was boards of Holly which is pure white that were 10 inches wide. Holley rarely gets wider than 3 or 4".

I picked up three barrels of the Bocote for under a $100, there is approx 600 - 700 pieces. I made several cutting boards in the herring bone pattern that are three dimensional when you look at them . If you want or need some let me know. I also picked up a a few mesquite burls and quarter sawn Sycamore.
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Wow, I can not imagine! :eek: 10" Holly!?!?!? :cool: Sounds like that guy had been collectin' for awhile! I bet there was stuff in there that you couldn't even get today. Just wow. Don't have a real need for any at the moment, but I'll keep it in mind. Thanks for the offer!!! :thumbup:

Dopic1 said:
Jared here is one of the finished boards in herringbone I have one I'm cutting up for hidden tang handles.
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Oh.

My.

Gosh!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

That is too cool!!! :cool: :cool: :cool: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Speechless...
 
Scooter,
Did you get any of the White Holly? Some of it looks like Ivory when its finished on a handle, And from the sound of it, all of this is TOP GRADE!
 
Did some HT Today, a Nakiri in Hitachi Blue and a Chef in 1075 thought everything went well and I looked at the Nakiri and it had a freaking crack in the *&@%$# SOB. So it became a cheese slicer. :mad:
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Thanks Dennis, got the two Damascus pieces ground to final thickness today, the get heat treated this week.
 
mitch4ging said:
Is the Hitachi difficult to HT, or is it do-able via gas forge?
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I've done a few piece before and it's not that hard, just get it past non magnetic let soak for 10 minutes and quench. I think I got too hot this time since it was a water quench.
 
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