Wood hoards?

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I have a fair selection in my shop.
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

I just want to come visit and look at all the beauty you have stashed away! My gosh man! That's awesome!

I'll take some of that awesome spalted maple off your hands

 

[Augus7us]

Holy... Wow Peter. Thanks for ruining my day

My handle material hoard, well isn't a hoard. So question for you guys; are you all breaking down furniture? Buying large planks from wood craft suppliers and cutting it down? Finding trees and harvesting yourselves?

I've bought plenty from Mark and folks like him but I'd sure like to find an alternative even if it means sending it out for stabilization. And for the record a majority of my stuff has came from Mark and his product is top notch and I plan on buying many pieces in the future, but I like to have as many sources for stuff like this as I can!

Thanks guys

-Clint

 

[Greenberg Woods]

Well I work at a lumber shop and take the time to troll the internet. When i find a good supplier, i talk to my boss and drive out there. I pick the nice peices for myself and buy the rest for the shop. I get paid to drive out and pick the best of the stock.

 

[Hengelo_77]

Well I work at a lumber shop and take the time to troll the internet. When i find a good supplier, i talk to my boss and drive out there. I pick the nice peices for myself and buy the rest for the shop. I get paid to drive out and pick the best of the stock.

Sounds like a fine job you have

 

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I have found 2 lumber places that take city trees and turn them to lumber, they have a story and the one place only picks the select wood. The one that picks select only to sell marks where the lumber came from. For instance the maple came from a downed tree in Kansas City, KS. I got some very very pretty spalted maple and also spalted sweet gum for $4.25 a bf. It's air dried to just under 10%. I cut it into blocks and sent it out. I should be getting them in tomorrow and I'm going to use the first of it on a hunting knife. The maple has swirly grey in it, I'm excited.

 

[P. McKinley]

are you all breaking down furniture? Buying large planks from wood craft suppliers and cutting it down? Finding trees and harvesting yourselves?

I just "borrow" from my neighbor's firewood pile. Shhhhhhhhhhhh....... don't tell.
That's actually an almost honest answer. I get more gorgeous Maple and Birch in the pile than any other place.

-Peter

 

[Brian Ayres]

I have most of this still. I've cut up a bit of the maple burl and big leaf maple that I had stabilized at K&G. One nice block of Thuya so it qualifies.

 

[Burl Source]

I just "borrow" from my neighbor's firewood pile. Shhhhhhhhhhhh....... don't tell.
That's actually an almost honest answer. I get more gorgeous Maple and Birch in the pile than any other place.

-Peter

There can be some great finds in firewood piles.
Since splitting often shows a quartersawn surface, it can be very apparent when a piece has good curly figure, bold flecks or other interesting grain patterns.

BTW: I was able to guess where Brian lives just by looking at the wood in his stash.

 

[Greenberg Woods]

The dragons hoard grows! Today i picked up the haul of hauls. I visited a very high end luthier, he has 5K bf of koa, 1K Brazilian, it was amazing. I now have a small board of CURLY Brazilian rosewood, about 3 board feet of kingwood, 50 board feet of mild figure koa, 8 bf of Good african blackwood, as well as maybe 5 board feet of old growth east Indian. But i have a new gem, something Mark here would love to get his hands on. I bought,

Koa burl. 4.38 board feet, single piece, Koa burl.

 

[Brian Ayres]

Pics or it didn't happen. 😁

 

[DukeHarley]

The dragons hoard grows! Today i picked up the haul of hauls. I visited a very high end luthier, he has 5K bf of koa, 1K Brazilian, it was amazing. I now have a small board of CURLY Brazilian rosewood, about 3 board feet of kingwood, 50 board feet of mild figure koa, 8 bf of Good african blackwood, as well as maybe 5 board feet of old growth east Indian. But i have a new gem, something Mark here would love to get his hands on. I bought,

Koa burl. 4.38 board feet, single piece, Koa burl.

Man I'd REALLY like see some pics of Koa burl!!!!!

Jay

 

[Hengelo_77]

Pics or it didn't happen. 😁

. +1

 

[Burl Source]

We are waiting for the Koa burl photos..........
Sounds like you really scored.

 

[Greenberg Woods]

Here is out start. this is some figured walnut, thick east indian as well as some cocobolo. The first and the side shot are of curly Brazilian rosewood

 

[Greenberg Woods]

Here we have Ironwood, then ebony, then african Black and then some more figured East Indian

 

[Greenberg Woods]

Here we have some big chunks of Cocobolo "the shiny metal is a ruler" as wel las some red striped curly koa and another block of coco

 

[Greenberg Woods]

Big block of African Blackwood and a big old chunk of Kingwood, freshly sanded

 

[Greenberg Woods]

And more shots of my Cocobolo scales, and finally the koa burl. It isent surfaced right now, but i saw a cut off from it. The curls loop in on themselves. Its something else.

There is a fair amount more of my stock, but i did not feel up to photographing all of it right now.

 

[Greenberg Woods]

O and I'm getting a new shipment of Black palm and Bastonge Walnut in soon. Forgot

 

[Burl Source]

There was some Koa burl on the big island a while back. But it had a lot of small bark pockets and voids. Not a true pin burl but still pretty cool stuff. This is what the stuff I had looked like. Unusual coloring and very strong 3d figure.