Exotic Wood

No cutting boards, pen blanks or anything that would take away form the overall look of the grain please. What are the size of these beautiful pieces of wood? I recently came across a nice board ( water fall bubinga) at my local exotic wood store and got it for the price of the average Starbucks coffee… still have no idea what I am going to do with it but I have it!! Let the wood speak to you, take your time. Enjoy.

-- All bleeding will eventually stop.

i think pen blanks could end up coming from cut-offs. When you get nice larger pieces, you should build nice larger pieces. I have to agree with the earlier comment. Wait and something will come to you.

I agree with both ideas. Wood Wisperer talk to me…
The sizes are
2” x 7 1/2” x 8’
2” x 5” x 8’
2” x 6 3/4” x 8’

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This is a no brainer in my opinion.
I would turn this into the lid and full overlay drawer fronts for a really cool jewelry box.
Jewelry boxes are great because you can use all of your skills with a small amount of very special wood to create great pieces.
Check out my projects for a couple of ideas.
Cheers
Bibb

-- Bibb in CO at http://katanadesign.com

Could you pass on the name/location of the supplier?

-- Don, Pittsburgh

http://www.exoticlumberinc.com/index.php

They have a good large selection and what I saw when I went through the facility I noticed they do a lot of shipping as well so I asked what it cost to ship to Florida it was about $60 for the 3 8’ boards so I saved that much by bringing it with me. What you see in the photos looks good but I was impressed by how much better the wood looked in person. Very nice people to.

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Jewelry boxes may be what I make with Christmas around the corner

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Boxes are a great way to go, but don’t rush it! You’ll find the right project. If it was me, I’d use my band saw and make it go even further by cutting it into veneer for my box projects. Makore is a great wood and works very well. See my boxes with makore lids…

-- Anybody can become a woodworker, but only a Craftsman can hide his mistakes.

Drawer fronts or a table top. I’d display the figure in as large of pieces as possible and as someone else suggested sell the scrap as pen blanks…....but maybe you’ll want to make some time in the future. ;-)

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

2 ” thick ? WOW …I hear a bandsaw running somewhere : ) Can you say , table legs , aprons , and top ? Oh My Goodness…and they’re 8’ long to boot ….Congratulations on this wonderful find ! Take your time deciding what to make because wood like this shouldn’t be wasted : ) Keep us posted , please .

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Dusty56 is feeling me. Bandsaw indeed. Split and bookmatch them, in fact flitch saw them into veneers.

This is where I get all of my wood. Wonderful place with some awesome guys running it. I will attach thier website for anyone that might want it.

http://www.exoticlumberinc.com/index.php

-- T. Nelson

Nice score. I’ve got a piece of quilted Makore quite a bit like the right-most one if your pic except it’s a tad darker, and it’s been sitting for almost 2 years because I also cant figure out what to make from it. Roughly 8/4×8” x 4’ so I’ll probably have to resaw it to get enough to make something from. Post some pics once you’ve used some. I’d like to see how it looks after finish.

-- Use the fence Luke

A nice humidor would be awesome with a piece of this on top, even as a veneer. The waves and depth of the quilting looks kind of ‘smoky’ to me. Gorgeous wood and sure to be great projects no matter what they become.

As a pen turner… I’d love to see some of this as pens. Like HokieMojo said, you can get some great blanks from the cut-offs. Don’t understimate how much you can showcase a great piece of wood in a nice pen!

-- Tim D. - Woodstock, GA

I do have a stash of Spanish Cedar Some quilted, Maybe a humidor could be used from part if I can sell it being I don’t do stogies flitch saw them into veneers? I know how to slice veneers but what is fitich saw? I have herd the term but never paid attention to it.

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Beautiful wood like that deserves a lot of serious thinking for the right project. My problem is that I would think about it for a couple of years before I put a saw to it.

-- I don't make mistakes, only design changes....www.dgmwoodworks.com

ARRRRh pen blanks that guy should be hourse whipped!
I say a Humidor be a nice regal case with your choice of interior linning

-- Doc Plants

Wow! those beautiful lumbers? My hand would be shivering to put it on whatever saw..
Talk to them every day until they say what they wanted to be.
And make sure there won’t be more than 2”L scraps..

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

I like the way Woodworm thinks. And use the 2˝ pieces for turned knobs.

Flitch sawn. (through-and-through sawn) Sawed lumber retaining the original waney bark edges of the log. Preferred for resawing chair parts because pieces can be aligned with the growth rings.

I think in this instance Sandhill is referring to parting off veneers and keeping them in the order that they come off the blank, so that they could be veneered onto a substrate side by side.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Unless something really commands I use a full board I will be sawing to get book matched veneer for that dynamic look. I will make at least one Humidor though.
Thanks, and any suggestions are welcome.

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