Thanks Scott. Good advice. I will check them out. Their website only mentions
moldings so I'll send them an email. .
We'll also check out the walnut and myrtle. If it has figure, will take aniline
dye well and is hard enough for a working surface, it should work. My experience
with redwood burls is they are beautiful but too soft.
Kind regards,joe
From: scott grandstaff
To: porch
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [OldTools] Wood advice/pointer
Joe
While it is sometimes possible to access wood that you picked out in
your mind, in advance, its always 1000 times easier to go with what you
can actually get in a reasonable time frame.
You are about 2000 miles from the nearest big slab of curly hard
maple you know. Cherry, birch or hickory ditto.
Soft western big leaf maple you can probably get reasonable, but its
barely hard enough for the purpose. People mostly slice that into veneer
for guitar tops.
There are endless walnut orchards with slab possibilities all around you.
Sometimes they call it claro walnut looking to dress up the name a bit.
Other fruit and nut trees too.
You are not eternally far removed from large myrtle slabs. The
oldtimers here call it pepperwood and sometimes bay laurel in other places.
No shortage of redwood burls on this side of the continent either.
If it was me, I'd just drive across the bay to White Bros and see
what is available right now.
http://www.whitebrothersmill.com/">http://www.whitebrothersmill.com/
Your house and life in general can probably use some of their other
fine products too. ;-)
I am desperately jealous you can just cruise over and look, you know.
White bros has been in business since 1872.
yours Scott
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