  |
Help | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Press | Seller Entry |  |
|
| items are currently ON SALE! |
|||
 |
|||
|
Help | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Press | Seller Entry | |
|
| items are currently ON SALE! |
|||
|
|||
| C359 NEAR WHITE GOLDEN CURLY MAPLE LUMBER 24x7x1"+ |
 |
| New Price: 24.50 USD |
| Old Price: 35.00 USD |
| Saved: 30 Percent |
| Sale ends: 2010-03-22 06:00:39 |
 or:Show Seller's other items 815maple |
Reviews & GuidesHow to get Purpleheart purple and keep it there.I've found, that much of the purpleheart lumber I buy, isn't as purple
as I hoped it would be. I was looking for a wood that was a much more
striking vision of purple. Pink Ivory Color Change UnusualUpdated 8/10/2007 Pink Ivory (Berchemia zeyheri) comes from a relatively small South-East African tree. This heavy and beautiful wood was considered extremely rare at one time, and still commands a high price. The loss of color in dark-dry storage is a serious problem. I have listed and described a number of cases of color changes below. In living trees, the cells in the outer rings of the tree that conduct water upward (sapwood), are nearly white in color. As the sapwood ages, the wood changes from sapwood to heartwood. At this time, the wood usually undergoes a rapid change in color (In some tree species, the heartwood stays white). In Pink Ivory the color change is much more gradual than in most species. In Pink Ivory, the white eventually changes to light pink, then pink, reddish, and a finally a full deep red color. It is a well known fact that in nearly every colored wood, exposure to light will cause the colored heartwood to loose color; however Pink Ivory also loses color away from light (and under low moisture conditions) in ways that are not typical. I noticed some eBay sellers labeling the discolored wood as sapwood. As a professional Wood Scientist, I felt this error needed to be ... Wood Common Names vs. Botanical NamesAs to the terms used in this guide, I'm pretty much using 'wood' to mean either the tree or the wood from the tree. Botanical name (or scientific name) means the genus and species of the tree. It's often difficult to pin down a wood as to an exact identity. There are a variety of reasons for this: One wood can have many common names. Many woods have 20 or more commonly used names that change depending where the tree is grown and the local language. The common name is different depending on whether the tree is harvested from the wild or plantation grown. Many different woods have the same common name: This is also fairly common and can be very confusing. How to identify ANY type of wood !Did you know that the Center for Wood Anatomy Research, in Madison, Wisconsin, will identify a
maximum of five wood samples per calendar year as a free public service
to U.S. citizens? Woodworking with Burl - Cracks, Voids & InclusionsThis guide will tell you how we (It's a Burl) work with the cracks, voids and inclusions found in burl and highly figured wood. Lumber Measure - Inches to Board FootMeasuring lumber whether it be for large planks or thin shorts can be a confusing and tedious venture if you are not fortunate enough to own a log rule. This guide follows a reference from the Lincoln Library of Essential Information that I have found very informative and very simple to use. A board foot is a square foot of lumber one inch or less in thickness. Thus, 7/8 inch and 3/4 inch lumber is measured and priced the same as 1-inch lumber, but for thinner material, such as 1/2 inch and 3/8 inch stock, a reduced price is made. The number of feet, board measure, for 1 1/4 inch stock is 1 1/4 times that of an inch board. To Find The Number Of Board Feet In A Piece Of Lumber 1 Inch Or Less: Multiply the length in inches times the width in inches times the thickness in inches and divide by 144. So, if you have a board that is 15 ft. long x 8 in. wide x 7/8 in. thick: If the board is 10 ft. long x 8 in. wide x 1 1/2 in. thick: I hope this little guide is helpful in calculating your lumber. If you have any questions or additional information, please contact me and I will be happy to answer and/or add the information to this site.... Mesquite - A Guide to the Tree and WoodMesquite (of the genus Prosopis) consists of about 45 species of leguminous spiny trees and shrubs found in subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas, Africa and southwest Asia. There are three common species of mesquite in North America: Honey Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa), Screwbean Mesquite (Prosopis pubescens), and Velvet Mesquite (Prosopis velutina). The Honey Mesquite is distinguished by smooth (rather than hairy) leaflets. It grows primarily in the Chihuahuan Desert east of the Continental Divide, but its outer range extends across the Sonoran Desert as well. The Screwbean Mesquite with its distinctive tightly spiraled bean pods grows in the northern Sonoran Desert up into the Mojave Desert. The Velvet Mesquite is the largest and most common of the three species. It has velvet-surfaced leaflets and grows primarily in the Sonoran Desert, west of the Continental Divide. Where the species overlap, the plants hybridize, often making identification difficult. Most of the following information is specific to the Velvet Mesquite, but all three species have similar characteristics. Algaroba, bilayati kikar, common mesquite, cuji, honey locust, honey mesquite, honey-pod, ibapiguazu, inesquirte, ironwood, mescrew, mesquite, screwbean, screwbean mesquite, screw-pod mesquite, scrub mesquite, tornillo, Torrey mesquite, velvet mesquite, wawahi, western honey mesquite Pen Turning & Working with Eastern Red CedarI am a bit of a woodworker . . . but not a pen turner. I do own a lathe . . . but have never turned or assembled a pen. About two and a half years ago I decided to take a huge Cedar tree that had grown on our property over the past 75 - 100 years to a local saw mill. It was in three massive logs and took me a loader and two trips with my trailer. The saw mill operator said "That thing doesn't look worth cutting up - are you sure?" We cut up that whole trunk (probably an 80 ft tree) and I found some of the most beautiful wood I'd ever seen -- or smelled. I wanted to share this wood with others who would appreciate it - and Ebay has been the perfect method. I've cut wood for duck calls, stoppers, lures, amulets, pen cases, boxes, small chests -- and, of course, pens. I've also built six Cedar chests myself. I've now sold and shipped over 500 pen blank sets (typically 12 blanks) all over the world. I try to include a few extras . . . and maybe some Walnut, Pacific Coast Maple, Alder or Osage Orange. Everyone has enjoyed the look, feel and smell of the Cedar and I have enjoyed meeting many new people! I have never recieved a negative feedback on my pen blanks - and if I don't send a woodworker exactly the mix of heartwood and sapwood he (or she) was looking for that is easily fixed next time they order. In over 500 orders I've never had one person not pay or send me a bad check or money order. Kudos to woodworkers! I'd love to sell all kinds of wood . . . but for now, it's mainly this great slab of Aromatic Cedar. Most of my wood is rough cut in full 1" planks - 4 to 6 inches wide. But, I have some chunks that I can use - so if you have a special request just let me know.&nbs... exotic wood identificationFor extensive photographs and descriptions of both exotic and domestic woods, see my HobbitHouse web site. Since ebay does not like (or even allow) links to pages off of ebay, you'll have to search for it on the internet. If you enter the phrase "exotic woods pictures" in ANY search engine, you'll find it as the first non-paid site listed, as it now has over 16,000 uniques images of woods and is referenced by sites all over the world. The information contained therein is far too massive to post here, thus this indirection. WOODWORKING 101(cleaning small cypress knees )Hi, this guide is to help the average joe craftman with tips and tricks to build and/or repair just about anything. I want to start by explaining the different types of plywood and their applications. There are a few types of plywood that i will go over with you. Marine plywood is easy to work with if you got the right tools, can be somewhat bent depending on thickness and is not limited to marine uses only, it is excellent wood for outdoor weather projects. Common plywood is very easy to work with, even with simple tools, this type is used for just about anything, but for outdoor wheater application, it is not recommended, for its life is shortened considerably if unprotected. It is also the least attractive of all types of plywood. This is also the type of plywood that is most succeptible to cracking and snapping when under load. Euro birch is one of the hardest, least flexible and most ply's of any type of plywoods on the market. If well sealed this can be used for marine and outdoor application. When you need strength and long durabillity, especially outdoors, this is probably a better option of plywood for your projects. My personal favorite for projects involving the building of shelves, racks, furniture or even a subwoofer box for car audio. My father builds furniture from scratch and the only plywood he will ever use for his projects is Euro birch. This wood can be easely stained and sealed. The use of any cutting tools on this wood have to be very sharp when cross-cutting is involved, but using a router for edges is so simple and easy. This is also ... Black walnut with scientific name julans nigra, may also be known as eastern black walnut or American black walnut. Black walnut has medium density and is tough and hard. It has moderate bending and crushing strength. Stiffness is low. It has good steam bending characteristic. Black walnut wood can be worked with hard or power tools without difficulty. Moderate blunting effect on cutters. It takes nails and screws well, glues satisfactorily and finishes high polish. Black walnut is very resistant to heartwood decay. One of the most durable wood even under conditions favorable to decay. Black walnut has several characteristics that woodworkers love. Pterocarpus indicus is the botanical name for a tree that has inspired a wide variety of names and has been used in a wide variety of applications. In the United States, the tree is usually called Narra and sometimes further delineated as red Narra or yellow Narra or even orange Narra.The Narra that grows in southern and southeastern Asia is called Solomons Pradauk or Papua New Guinea rosewood. Narra also grows extensively in the Philippines, Borneo, New Guinea, Cagayan, Mindoro, Palawan, Cotabato and the Malay Archipelago. Its Malayan name is angsana. Narra has also been called kiabooco, meaning "twisted wood." The Narra found in African countries is known as "Paduak" When in the burl form, Narra?s wood is usually referred to as Amboyna burl ? that name coming from Amboyna Island, another place the trees can be found. In "Veneers, A Fritz Kohl Handbook," produced by the Fritz Kohl Veneer Mill in Germany, Amboyna burl is described as "one of the rarest and most expensive woods in the world," adding that "the burly part of the log is often very small." The scarcity of burl in the logs translates into rather high prices, as do its demand for use in high-end woodwork. According to the handbook?s authors, Amboyna burl is used for the "highest quality architectural woodwork" and that it was the first burl wood used for dashboards by Rolls Royce. Ordinary Narra may not be as highly prized as the wood that comes from the burls, but it is still a beautiful wood in its own right that can yield a range of interesting figures. Experts believe these figures are formed from the existence of "terminal parenchyma" and irregularities in the woods. Parenchyma is the wood?s soft tissue that stores and distributes carbohydrates. Narra?s grain can be wavy, interlocked or crossed creating attractive figures s... |
