Wood hoards?

Greenberg Woods

Greenberg Woods

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Hello again guys. I have been doing some jobs for my wood shop buying and selling big loads of rare woods and I ahve been buying a few choice pieces each time, and was wondering how my wood stash compared with all you folks. right now im at

7 board feet of Cocobolo
2 board feet Indian rosewood
5 board feet assorted ebony species "gabon, maccasser, ceylon, black and white"
1 board foot Brazallian rosewood
13 board feet of super figured walnut
3 board feet of bloodwood
5 board feet Bocote
1 BF Black Ironwood
2 BF wenge
1 bf Koa
and several dozen assorted scales of burl and other rare woods.
What do you folks have stashed away in your shops?
 
haha I'm down to 1 set of tiger maple scales and 1 blackwood block. Definitely need to do some restocking.

I think you should be set for a while.
 
Hey buddy, all that wood sitting around is a fire hazard, ill take care of some of it for you :)... Please:)
 
I honestly might have to get my seller tag for this site and start selling some of it. I have so much lumber
 
What... no Maple, Oak?

How 'bout Lignum vitae, Tulipwood, Thuya?

If ya gots no Thuya, ya gots nutin'. :p

That's quite the stash .

**signed**
Jealous in Cape Breton
 
I can neither confirm or deny I'm have a big problem hoarding Curly Koa and Desert Ironwood.😁

Jay
 
P. McKinley said:
What... no Maple, Oak?

How 'bout Lignum vitae, Tulipwood, Thuya?

If ya gots no Thuya, ya gots nutin'. :p

That's quite the stash .

**signed**
Jealous in Cape Breton
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I have about 35 bf of curly/ birds eye maple stashed away and maybe 10 of some 300 year old english oak i pulled out of an old Dresser. I'm looking for a guy selling old ship bearings for my lignium. Tulip is pretty hard to come by these days, I have been looking for that and kingwood recently.
 
Hey, it's not a competition...............um, until Mark posts new pieces at BurlSource. THEN it's a competition!
 
I have bought 95% of my wood in scales or small blocks so not many board feet of any one type. I love searching for new/different wood. I would love to have a small piece of every kind of wood thats used for handles.
 
Yeah what's up with burl source anyways? i'm Jonesin here and he hasn't had anything up there for a good bit.

Nevermind I just checked and he's got some up now.
 
I don't have the amounts you guys have (7 feet in a single type...wow.)

But I do have a nice little stash going on. This is where I keep my NICE scales and blocks. Lot's ao stabilised Sycamore, Walnut and Bog Oak, with some snakewood, Ebony, Maple burl, and other stuff going on in there as well.


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I don't know the exact amounts but I have, in no particular order:


Burl Maple
Curly Maple
Dyed Curly Maple
Claro Walnut
Curly Koa
Wenge
Ringed Gidgee
Amboyna Burl
Spalted Snakeskin Sycamore
Ziricote
Silky Oak
Satinwood Burl(Pyinma)
Curly Hawaiian Mango
Some kind of black line spalted wood
 
Part of the collection... from back when the weight of it broke my storage cabinet. These days, I've been making an effort to keep handle material buying directly proportional to my knife production. I haven't been successful at this effort, but I've been making it nonetheless.

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Erin
 
I think somebody's being a showoff :p

Really, Its all about quality vs quantity! Show us some pics of your hoard!

Have fun & stay safe.
 
Most of mine is either cut up or in the log form still and so difficult to quesstimate into bf. Also most of my stash has been acquired through trading. Red Oak burl, Pear, Osage Orange, Mesquite (logs and logs and a realy cool old board from Guadalajara 3x16x30"), Pecan, Ironwood, boxes and boxes of exhibition grade Turkish Walnut (custom gunmaker stock cutoffs), Black Walnut, Cocobolo, Bocote, a box of assorted rosewoods, Olivewood, Wild Cherry, domestic Cherry and Honey Locust. Also a box of I don't knows. Onnly the assorted rosewoods were bought the rest were trades. Scored several hundred pounds of elk sheds the same way too.
 
I have a fair selection in my shop. :D
Most all of it is natural, although I have a few pieces of stabilized stuff from Mark.
A large portion of my stash is a variety of N. American hardwoods, but I also have some exotics as well.
I believe I have 10 varieties of Red Maple alone... burl, onion burl, spalted, crotch-wood, fiddleback(some "Master" and AAA quality), beeswing, quilted, birdseye, "toasted", and just plain ole' flat and quartersawn. I have some incredible air dried, figured, Walnut from PA., some beautiful figured Red Oak from New Brunswick, Sycamore from the Connecticut River Valley, Cherry from Vermont, Yellow Birch from the Adirondack Mtns, Osage Orange from Texas, and figured Ash from Maine.... all of which I have harvested or scavenged myself. All in all, I believe I have 19 species of domestic hardwood, and a few softwoods like Cedar(red and white), Larch, and Pine. Oh, and several good lengths of Cholla Cactus I collected from both the Big Bend N.P in Texas, and the Kofa N.W.R. in Arizona.... love that stuff!

As for exotics:
African Blackwood, Bacote, Bubinga(several varieties), Redwood burl, Bocote', Brown heart, Ebony(2 types), Rosewood(3 types), Cocobolo(also a Rosewood),Tulipwood, Sapele(two varietals), Lignum Vitae, Ipe, Palm(black and red), Bloodwood, Padauk, Wenge, Ziracote, Thuya burl, Lacewood, Leapordwood, and a bunch more I can't think of.

Here's some of my stash that has been cut and sanded to usable dimensions:


Mostly Maple:






Mostly Black Walnut:


Mostly spalted Maple:


Thin stock:


And a box of antler and bone:


Happy Hoarding!

-Peter
 
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