Some Snakewood I brought in

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Hey Guys, I wanted to show something "and show off something" I picked up recently. some 5A snakewood logs!

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This is only a few of them. Its about 250 pounds in total

I only had time to mill up a small section

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When I come back to LA i'll do some walkthroughs about how I mill these up and how to use snakewood. Its a very intersting and strange wood to use. But damn is it pretty!
 
Humma-humma!!!!!
Now that just made my day :D
Looking forewards to your walkthroughs, I have some snakewood over here I need to cut. I'd love your imput
 
Log chunks are NEVER dry. Cut blocks from them should be dry enough to use in about 3 years. Snakewood one of the worse for cracking, especially in the drying process. I stopped buying log sections years ago due to the losses from cracking. Good luck.
 
Larry D. Davis said:
I stopped buying log sections years ago due to the losses from cracking. Good luck.
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Snakewood logs are a fun learning experience! I never did turn a profit from snakewood logs. It is discouraging to cut a log and find it shattered in the middle.

Snakewood has the longest drying time of any wood we processed. We also found blocks took years to dry.

Chuck
 
Larry D. Davis said:
Log chunks are NEVER dry. Cut blocks from them should be dry enough to use in about 3 years. Snakewood one of the worse for cracking, especially in the drying process. I stopped buying log sections years ago due to the losses from cracking. Good luck.
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Alpha Knife Supply said:
Snakewood logs are a fun learning experience! I never did turn a profit from snakewood logs. It is discouraging to cut a log and find it shattered in the middle.

Snakewood has the longest drying time of any wood we processed. We also found blocks took years to dry.

Chuck
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Both of these gentlemen echo my experiences as well. Best of luck to you working it and selling it Ben.
 
Same here, I bought a half log and dried it for three years, then cut it into 6" sections. I dried those for another year and cut into usable blocks. Those spent another year normalizing. There was a lot of splitting, and the usable yield may have been 50%. That said, the stuff that was good was superb.
 
Alpha Knife Supply said:
Snakewood logs are a fun learning experience! I never did turn a profit from snakewood logs. It is discouraging to cut a log and find it shattered in the middle.

Snakewood has the longest drying time of any wood we processed. We also found blocks took years to dry.

Chuck
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Have you ever had it stabilized? I've heard that it can be, and that it's too hard and oily to be.
 
Greenberg Woods said:
Have you ever had it stabilized? I've heard that it can be, and that it's too hard and oily to be.
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It can be and has been done, but it cracks about the same as untreated snakewood in my experience. Acrylic infusion is by no means a magic elixir for cranky wood. As Stacy outlined be very patient with it.
 
I spoke to the guy I bought the logs from. His dad was an importer, and these were in storage when he died. The guy said he passed away in July of 2012, so about 4 years ago. The logs were waxed, so I don't think they dried all that much, but we will see
 
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