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Keyboard’s getting wet from drooling…

-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive

The first photos look like old growth Redwood. Here are a few samples of the Redwood I have.

-- Eric, NorCal www.rocklinforestproducts.com

I want some of that chatoyancy wood…

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I’m awed.

jamie

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Chatoyance” – think “cat’s eye shimmer”. Whatever, it’s drop dead gorgeous! EricRFP, you wood likes like flames. Very nice, indeed.

Is there anything on that wood or is it just dry, unfinished wood?

Yes there is something on the wood. It’s drool.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Thats some nice looking grain.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Like, WOW!

-- The nicer the nice, the higher the price!

Holy crap!

-- Paul M ..............If God wanted us to have fiberglass boats he would have given us fiberglass trees. http://prmdesigns.com/

I had no idea that redwood could look like that finished. In fact, I never saw any redwood finished, but that is just breath taking.

-- Michael :-{| Diapers and politicians both need to be changed often; and for the same reason.

As others have said, Holy crap, WOW Batman. That is some special wood.

-- Bob K. East Northport, NY

I am fortunate to have some old growth quilted redwood and am still looking for a project to do it justice.

Great stuff!!

-- DonH Orleans Ontario

Wood porn!!!

-- Matt Garcia Wannabe Period Furniture Maker, Houston TX

All the pictures are eye popping! They show what beauty can be found hidden inside the bark of a tree!

-- Lorna, Cape Cod

Wow I live in redwood country and that’s the first time I see it.

Hey, how do you spell that?

Beautiful wood, Larry!

Lee

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I would just about kill for wood like that! Absolutely beautiful.

-- Tim

I’ve fallen and I can’t get up. WOW that is the most amazing wood I have ever seen.

-- Galootish log blog, http://www.timberframe-tools.com

I’ve gotta get a towel…

-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net

Chatoyancy….. gotta remember that.
That wood OMG. Had to laugh at Matt’s remark… wood porn. Good one!

-- Theresa, https://sites.google.com/site/tmj65treasure/

Wow, wow and double wow!!!!

-- Mike, American in Norway

FWIW – the word “chatoyancy” is normally used to refer to minerals and gems. However, it also applies to some woods.

-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.

degoose, Please let me challenge you with a question. In your first pic, I would call the two pieces in the middle ‘curly’, as when you hear of ‘curly maple’, although I realize yours are not maple. Whereas the one on the right has waves in all kinds of directions, which I would more likely identify as having chatoyancy. Does one contain the other or are they totally separate? My guess is that ‘curly maple’ has ‘chatoyancy’ but a board with ‘chatoyancy’ is not necessarilly ‘curly’. Maybe you or someone else could clear this up for me. :)

In addition, for the life of me, I couldn’t tell you the difference between ‘curly maple’, ‘fiddleback maple’, ‘tiger maple’, and ‘quilted maple’. Are these all considered the same? Only one I might buy as being physically different might be fiddleback maple since it is presumably always split with a froe rather than cut.

Rance (wandering two and froe)

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I think that you have answered your own questions.

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