Solid Padouk Slab Vanity

Here are a couple shots of a Padouk and Bubinga bathroom vanity.
-look at the matching padouk medicine cabinet-

Natural edged padouk slabs nearly always have very straight and light colored sap lines running along each edge.

These well defined sap lines tend to contrast very nicely with the darker heartwood of the tree and when used creatively look amazing as tabletops, bartops and other related projects.

Below are some pictures of similar Padouk slabs we have in stock here at the shop.

All measure roughly 30-35" wide and are about 195" long!

We have four of these gorgeous padouk slabs in stock and all of them are bookmatched out of the same flitch!

Want matching material for a dining table, chairs, bartop, etc.?
Here is your chance!

*Remember-We knock 10% off on purchases of 2 or more slabs, so keep that in mind.

Imagine this as your dining room table!

*We normally don't like to cut slabs but since we have four of these, give us a call with your desired length and we can see if we can accommodate your needs.
760-434-3030
tropicalexotichardwoods@yahoo.com

Click here to see all available Padouk Slabs

A few more highlights

One bubinga slab sold, three still left. Snag one at a great price.



Not exactly wood but may be of use to some woodworkers.

20 horse power 3 phase converter.

Basically brand new, $475.
Call us for more information if you are interested.
760 434 3030

Day 2 of the sale is on

Half an hour in and these lucky customers already found a keeper. That is a seven foot long piece of musical grad Maccasar Ebony.



One more reason to drop by-
We have two conoid chairs on display by Tassajara Designs.



Bubinga slab we had about a year ago.



This one is amazing.
Figured rose Myrtle. Worth a look if your going to drop by.

See you at the sale

Joshua Tree Percussion Company

(Photo taken from www.jtpco.net)

Tom Wolfe of Joshua Tree Percussion just dropped by the shop to pick up some Cocobolo and Bloodwood for his custom drums.

Looked at his website and asked if we could snag one of his pictures. Great looking pieces out of our some of our wood.

• Bubinga with Maple stripes (left piece)

• Purpleheart and Quilted Maple (center)
  

• Cocobolo (right)
  

Amazing stuff. he will be emailing more pictures to post. Stay tuned!

Joshua Tree Percussion Company
jtpco.net
760-362-5322

Figured Bubinga Conoid Chairs

Aimee, Mike and Tim of Tassajara Design
with one of their figured Bubinga Conoid Chairs

Tassajara Design recently completed an 8 piece set of Figured Bubinga Conoid chairs for a client in Georgia. These chairs turned out great!

Mike selected two large Bubinga Slabs from a batch we recently received here at the shop and used pretty much all of the available material for the construction of these eight chairs

Mike with one of the large Bubinga slabs before he started constructing the chairs.

Personally we like the way Tassajara creatively used some of the figured sapwood throughout different parts of each chair. The sapwood seemed to be just as figured as the heartwood and its contrasting light color definitely gave the chairs a more organic feel.


Below are some pictures of the very first chair Tassajara completed in the set, enjoy-

Imagine a 8 of these guys in your dining room-

Now that is some figure!

Here you can see that use of the light sapwood we spoke about

Also as a side note-
Tassajara constructed an extra one for themselves which will be entered into the
"Design in Wood" competition at the San Diego County fair in June/July 2010.

Make sure to check it out if you have a chance, these pictures don't do the chairs justice! You have to see them in person to really appreciate the beauty of the wood and of the design.

Bubinga Slabs-Batch #1

Bubinga

ALL AVAILABLE SLABS ARE NOW LISTED ON OUR ONLINE STORE

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT WE HAVE IN STOCK

Click here for an up-to-date listing of all slabs that are currently in stock

Below are example photos of what our Bubinga slabs look like:

Table by Phil Audia

Table by Phil Audia

Table by Phil Audia

Before and After- Bubinga Slab

-Another Before and After-

Nice "little" Bubinga Slab

Some of you may remember this one sitting towards the back of the shop. Its kind of hard to visualize what a piece will look like when its done, especially when it is in the rough and has not even been sanded.

We tried convincing many customers that the slab would look amazing once it was finished, all it needed was to be sanded correctly and a couple coats of oil to bring out out all the figure.

The best part was for about $700 you had a solid slab of wood all the way from Africa.

I think 3 of the 4 that inquired about it ended up playing it safe and going with some of our thicker maple slabs that cost about twice as much.

One lucky customer ended up taking our advice and picking this little gem of a slab.

Here is the same slab after Mike Wells at Tassajara Designs, which is located next door to us, sanded and finished it.

Yup...no figure at all, that thing looks soooo boring...

Just joking, we think this slab turned out great! Can you imagine having this thing in your dining room? Talk about a conversation starter!

In case you were wondering...YES we can arrange to have your slab sanded and/or finished next door at Tassajara Designs.

They can handle any of the slabs that we carry and offer a wide range of services.

Many of our clients have saved alot of money in the past by having them work on our Slabs, since they are located right next door.

Pick-out your 3' wide x 14' slab, have Tassajara sand it, and have us ship it directly to you.

Makes life alot easier, especially once these slabs get up there in size


Here is a run down of what they offer, feel free to contact us for more 760-434-3030, or you can contact Mike directly to see what he can offer:


Milling Services
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Straight Line Rip and Crosscut - Up to 3" thick, up to 14' length
Wide Belt Sanding - Up to 38" width and 14' length

***NEW*** We offer computer-controlled "fly-cutting" on a CNC machine to surface/flatten large slabs up to 5' wide and 12' long. Can also shape, contour, etc. on same machine.

Fabrication Services
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Panel glue ups up to 48" wide and 14' length

Finishing Services
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Stain, seal and topcoat finishing in our fully-enclosed/filtered & heated spray booth. We can handle slabs up to 14' long
We use a variety of solvent finishes: catalyzed varnish and pre-cat lacquers
We use water-based finishes: stains, hybrid varnish, lacquer, catalyzed polyurethane for tables, bars, desks, etc.

Complete Design and Fabrication Services
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From simple pencil sketch designs, to complex 3-D CAD designs and full color renderings.
Wood, metal, glass, stone and other materials integrated into basic wood designs.
We specialize in large slabs of natural edge exotic woods

Michael Wells
Tassajara Designs, Inc.
2270 Camino Vida Roble, Suite C
Carlsbad, CA 92011
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mike@tassajaradesigns.com
http://www.tassajaradesigns.com

Design in Wood '09

The "Design in Wood" exhibit just opened up the San Diego County Fair last week.

Its always fun heading down to the show to see what some of our customers have been up to with some of our woods. Year after year we are always amazed with the work that is on display. With everything from intarsia to furniture there is a little bit of everything at the display.

Here is Dean Moore's entry for this year-"Jewelry Armoire" out of Cocobolo and Curly Koa. Our pictures do not do it justice, this Jewelry box is pretty incredible-

To see Dean's box from last year Click here

19 year old Kyle Toth had one of his bats on display out of Bloodwood and Maple

Check out his Purpleheart bat by Clicking here, very nice work.

Here are a couple sculptures by Kenneth Glaze out of Pink Ivory and Mexican Kingwood

Here is a chest by Local Woodworker Terry Hansen. The Cherry and Walnut didn't come from us but we are pretty sure most of the woods on the top came out of our shop.

It easy to get lost checking out all the different woods in his designs, a little bit of everything-Cocobolo, Bocote, yellowheart, bloodwood, wenge, black palm, goncalo alves, marblwood and more-Its seems as though he has every type of exotic in his boxes.

Del Cover is one of the most highly respected woodworkers in our area. Here we see a floating seat rocker out of wenge and some figured Bubinga.

Check out the massive Cluster Maple Table he made a while back by clicking here

We are almost positive this is one of our 1.5" thick Bubinga Slabs in a table by Rick Moen. Check out the figure in this piece! We still have a couple of these slabs left as of 6-21-09

Here is a Cabinet by local woodworker Jose Eguez out of some of our Wenge and a nice figured piece of Black & White Ebony-that stuff sure is pretty.

Here are some other nice pieces at the show. Can't remember who they are by but we remember having a similar piece of zebrawood in our shop with that sap line-it wouldn't surprise us if it was indeed our wood, either way its a pretty piece.

Look at this piece out of Padouk, it reminds us of a bar that was constructed down in Little Italy in Downtown San Diego in a high end restaurant out of our Padouk with a similar design, very nice.

Another piece by Terry Hanson, we love that design.

Looks like some tulipwood and some curly euc. What else do you see?

Look at this desk out of Ziricote by Jerry Beaudry. Looks like solid Ziricote throughout no Veneers!

Everywhere you look different pieces of all shapes and sizes-

Several turned objects at the show as well, we tried taking some pictures but its kind of tricky taking pictures of objects behind glass-sorry...

Here is another amazing piece by Del Cover that won the Woodcraft Magazine "Award for Excellence in Design".

Its is titled "Balboa Park Bench" and is modeled after the historic Balboa park area here in San Diego.

Tons of different woods in this piece-Check out the wenge in those seats...


Jason Lane actually stoped by the shop earlier in the day and mentioned he had this piece in the show.

This piece is titled "Bow-Tie Lectern" and is constructed out of some of our Ziricote.

There was also a very nice display at the front of the exhibit honoring the late Sam Maloof.

Two of his rockers were also on display which was a nice to see.

The show is going on through the first week of July- we recommend checking it out if your in the area.