Rabu, 29 April 2009

Lingerie Cabinet by Customer Mike Souza from Hawaii

Sent to us by Mike Souza from Hawaii

Finished curved front Lingerie Cabinet made from some of our Ribbon Bubinga. The handles are Curly Maple and a thin strip of Bubinga, and the foot detail is Curly Maple with a little Ebony inlay.

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Sabtu, 11 April 2009

Ornamental Turning by Brian Jackson


Brian Jackson came by the shop to pick up some wood and show us a couple of his pieces.

This is out of some of our Pink Ivory, very nice.

For more on his turnings visit www.jacksonwoodworks.com

& Click here to visit our Online store to see what we have in stock

Rabu, 01 April 2009

Large turnings by Harvey Fein

Here are a couple pictures of some fantastic pieces done by Harvey Fein from New Jersey


This piece was made out of a short cocobolo dead log section much like the one below.

What do we mean by "dead"?


Note that there is no sapwood in the log below-

New cambium or sapwood turns into heartwood as a tree grows. Once the tree has died naturally, the remaining cambium layer rots away as is the case with these cocobolo logs.

Where our cocobolo is harvested in Mexico, many times we come across these "dead" cocobolo trees either standing or on the ground. They make for nice large turnings since they are usually nice and dry and sap-free.

We usually have a few of these logs at the shop at all times, let us know if you have any other questions about them.
Here we see Harvey using one of our Jatoba Crotch slabs for another large turning. These pieces have some incredible figure and are great to work with.




We still have quite a bit of them so let us know if you are after something different and in larger dimensions, we can tell you what we have.

Click here to go to our Online Store for more large blanks like the ones pictured here