Batch #1-Walnut Slabs

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 Walnut slabs look like:

The figured Claro Walnut Slabs are here!

Here is one of the stacks of claro walnut slabs that just arrived at our shop.
Sequentially cut veneer quality slabs filled with curly figure!
The picture below is of the 5/4 slabs but we also received some 8/4 and 12/4 as well. (pictures to be posted soon)
Will all be on display (and discounted) during the parking lot sale this weekend!
Stop by the shop and check them out!

More wood on it's way to the shop for the sale!

We just received these images of a stack of 5/4 , 8/4, & 12/4 curly black walnut slabs that are on their way down to our shop from Northern California.

Most are 24" wide x 36" long and according to the email all have great figure and color!

Should be at our shop early next week just in time for the parking lot sale!

We personally can't wait to see them, will post more pictures once they arrive.

Large Walnut Crotch Slab Available!

We wanted to give all our blog followers and facebook friends advanced notice on a neat Walnut slab that will be added to our website within the next week.

A customer of ours purchased this large Bastogne Walnut crotch slab roughly a year ago to use as a tabletop but ended up using a different piece of wood for the project instead. Recently he asked us to help him sell it here at the shop.

Large figured Walnut slabs are tough to find, so we know many of you will be excited about this one!

Some information on the Walnut slab-

roughly-49" at the narrowest, 67" at the widest, 65" long and 2 3/4" thick
(Probably figure 2" when completely flattened)

The pictures below show the slab unsurfaced and in the rough when in first arrived at our shop about a year ago. The customer has since had the slab partially flattened and has allowed it to dry in a solar kiln for about six months to a year. The slab has moved a bit during the drying process and will need to be resurfaced to make it completely flat again. (As mentioned above, plan on about a 2" finished thickness once it is re-sanded)

According to the customer, the slab is at about 14% moisture content(taken from three different places on the slab with a moisture meter at about a 1/2" depth). Plan on a little more moisture towards the core of the slab, but overall this a pretty dry for a slab for a chunk of Walnut this large.

$2950.00

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or would like to purchase the slab before we add it to the website.

Neat pieces found on a road trip to Northern California...

We always have our feelers out there looking for unique pieces of wood for all our customers.

Whether it's highly figured pieces of rosewood , uniquely shaped tabletop slabs, or old dusty stashes of wood sitting in forgotten lumber yards, we always get a kick out of finding those "ugly ducklings" that are just begging to be made into beautiful pieces of art.

Although we usually have a healthy supply of "fireplace mantle" stock here at the shop and on the "slabs page" of our website, very thick and dry material (4-6") is sometimes a hard one to find.

We found these four pieces pictured below on a recent road trip up to Northern California. They All bone dry with unique texture on the natural edge. Will look amazing as distressed fireplace mantels.




Here are the three big ones, from left to right-

Pine-6" x 11.5-19" x 97"
Live Oak-5.5" x 8-14" x 85"
Redwood-6.5" x 9" x 100"



Real nice natural edges on all these pieces!




Here is the "little" one-

Figured Claro Walnut-5" x 10-12" x 63"


Give us a call if any of these interest you (760.434.3030) or look for them to be listed on our website within the week

Bookmatched Walnut Crotch Slabs!

These two DRY walnut crotch slabs just came in the door.

Bookmatched set with amazing figure!

Both measure roughly 2.25" x 36-50" x 90"-$1500/ea

Give us call if you would like to know more about these two beauties.
760.434.3030

Pretty pieces of lumber at discounted prices in our "one-off" rack!

This is a section of our lumber rack where we group unique pieces from prior loads and discount them by 10%.

Some of these pieces are really neat and hard to find.




If you don't mind digging through the lift, there are some real gems at great prices that can be used for a variety if projects.




There is a little bit of everything in the rack- figured exotics, domestics (see pic of claro walnut above), crotch, small slabs, etc.



Some of our clients only concentrate on this rack when they drop by the shop knowing that they can find some great pieces at great prices.




Check out this pieces pictured above-

10 foot piece of "real" genuine mahogany from the 1950's. This is the golden brown tight grained stuff and not that salmon colored junk that most wood shops try to pass off as mahogany. And at 10% off you can't beat it!




We aren't going to lie- some pieces have cracks and are oddly shaped, but we figure at the right price there is a use for everything here at the shop.

(At 14 inches wide and at a discounted price, we are sure one or two of you can find a use for the pretty piece of zebrawood pictured above!)

Feel free to drop by the shop and dig through the rack to see what you can find. If you don't know where to look, just ask for the "one off" rack and we will point you in the right direction.

760.434.3030

Before and After-Walnut Crotch Slab

Here we see Jeff Nilson of Nilson Winter Construction create an amazing coffee table out of two slabs of Black Walnut crotch.

(Black Walnut Crotch)

Jeff and his client came into the shop one day looking for a unique slab to construct a one of a kind coffee table.

His client fell in love with the above walnut slab but needed a top that was a bit wider than this slab would allow.

Rather than pass on this slab and just look for something wider but with less figure, Jeff decided to take a second crotch slab and just piece together a top that gave the client exactly what he desired.

(The second Walnut slab used for extra material)

(Jeff's initial plans for the construction of the top)

Below is the amazing finished table Jeff created.

It always amazes us how the best craftsmen almost always seem to embrace the challenges that go along with woodworking in order to create stunning pieces such as the table below.

We just love the way he matched up the natural curves of each slab and ended up with a top that looks like one solid piece at first glance.

Talk about a unique looking table!




His client was able to use the slab that he initially selected while still maintaining the desired dimensions of his coffee table.


The next picture shows just how skilled one has to be to accomplish something like this. Look at the curves of the sap line!

Careful cuts combined with immaculate joints will get you something that looks simple but in fact is very complex in its construction.



This goes to show that you don't always have to be on that endless search for that "perfect" piece for your project.

We think dealing with these small irregularities is what makes working with wood so unique and fun!

Remember this isn't a static medium such as metal or plastic and sometimes mother nature doesn't spit out those "perfect" pieces of wood.

Yet with a some creativity and a little help from skilled woodworkers such as Jeff Nilson, you may find out that that perfect piece has been sitting there right in front of you all along.

To learn more about Jeff Nilson's work, please visit his website-
www.nilsonwinter.com

Before and After-Black Walnut Slab

We know it sometimes hard to tell what the finished color and figure will look like on some of our unsurfaced slabs.

Yet you can't really go wrong with Walnut, no matter how water stained or oxidized it may be.

We know that once sanded properly there is always some great color and grain on almost any walnut slab.

before

We recommended this small walnut slab to a customer who was looking for simple, dark, and inexpensive slab for a coffee table.

We knew the slab would turn out great once finished, and even talked the customer out of purchasing a more expensive slab since we knew this was exactly what he was looking for.

after

Here is some finished shot of the table constructed next door at Tassajara Designs


Luckily there was enough length on the slab to construct the legs as well. The customer was contemplating purchasing a second walnut slab for the base, but after a few recalculations decided on constructing everything out of the same slab.

We think it turned out great!

Please feel free to give us a call and we can tell you a little more about some the other walnut slabs we have in stock.

760 -434-3030


You can also CLICK HERE to browse our "slabs" page on our website for an up-t- date listing of all the exciting new slabs we have here at the shop.

Curly Redwood and Figured Walnut Slab

These guys just came in today.

Gorgeous bone-dry Curly Redwood up to 10 foot long!

& a very figure semi-round Walnut Slab

Stay tuned for our New Stuff email next week for more details or come on by and check it out yourself

Ribbon Series by Warren Aut

Sent to us by our good friend Warren Aut. His "Ribbon Series" uses many different woods such as mahogany, teak and other exotics. They can be seen in private collection such as the one pictured above. He is finishing up a leapardwood ribbon which should complete the series, it should look amazing.

For more visit his website http://www.warrenaut.com/


He uses cedar in the ribbon

Looks like Mahogany and Walnut for the base.
This one is made out of teak and rosewood

Exotic Wood Boxes by Dean Moore

This Jewelery box by Dean Moore, won the American Woodworker "Love of Wood" award at this years Design in Wood exhibit at the 2008 San Diego County Fair.

As you can see Dean carefully selected a very unique piece of cocobolo lumber and combined it with some very figured flamed Koa. We think the combination worked out perfectly.
Here we see a box made out of primarily figured Walnut but with some accent pieces of other woods as well such as Ebony. Look at how all the different figures and colors go together nicely.

This one is made of granadillo. We have carried granadillo for years but it never really was a big seller. Since no one had really heard of it, every one wanted to stick to the well known woods . We had three lifts of the wood in the back that had been at the shop for well over 10 years. Recently people have started to notice the beauty of the wood and have started to purchase it like crazy. We still have some lumber left and hopefully will be receiving more in the near future.

This is a fiddleback Eucalyptus humidor with a quilted maple top. I believe there is also some Cocobolo in the mix as well. People are very hesitant when we tell them about the fiddleback Eucalyptus, they always want curly maple. Like the granadillo example, this box shows that there are hundreds of different woods out there that look amazing. Curly maple isn't the only curly wood out there. As you can see by this box, curly isn't a problem here. But if you do want curly maple and that's what tickles your fancy, we did just received a batch of 5/4 curly maple that will knock your socks off.

Here's another one that demonstrates how different combinations of woods really look visually appealing in boxes.
Look at the quilted Bubinga top lined with curly maple. Really looks nice. Can you imagine sticking a strip of snakewood ,curly pernambuco, ceylon satinwood, figured purpleheart?