TEH owner Mitch Talcove searching for wood (& riding his 60 year old Vincent motorcycle) in Western Pennsylvania

Just received these images from Mitch. He will be touring this beautiful part of the country for the next week or so and will be updating us with what he finds...

Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house in Western PA

MASSIVE BOWL BLANKS!

Just finished dragging these monsters out of the back.

Look at these things!

The biggest ones are about 18"x18"x4" of solid Tasmanian Eucalyptus Burl!




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Snakewood Logs

piratinera guianensis, snakewood comes from a small tree found in the forests of Suriname, South America

The appearance of snakewood is much like its name implies- that of a snakeskin or spotty like leopard spots. The heartwood is reddish-brown with black accents or vertical lines. It is very hard and heavy but is capable of a beautiful finish as it polishes out nicely.

Snakewood is mostly used to make drumsticks, rattles, pens, knife handles, violin bows, pool cues, archery bows and is used in inlay work and marquetry

The following pictures are of full logs that we have here at shop. Dimensions and weights are on each picture.

#A- SOLD, Thanks



#C- SOLD

#E- SOLD

AAW Woodturning shows over the years

Found this selection of pictures from past AAW shows around the shop. We are proud to be the only exibitor to attend all 22 annual symposiums. Have met alot of our best customers at these shows over the years.
Each year Mitch starts milling up wood for the show several weeks in advance and makes sure to only bring the nicest stock of the highest quality for our woodturners at the AAW symposium.

I think this one is in Louisville, Kentucky


This one was in Akron, Ohio
This one is at the Pasadena show in 2003.

Mitch and Marty are fighting over a special one of a kind snakewood wood turning gouge.
This show was a big one for us since it was only up the road in Los Angeles.

We brought up several slabs and full logs of snakewood, cocobolo and other spectalular species.

We even had a little gallery going on right there in the middle of our booth (see picture)

We brought up several turned pieces out of our woods since we didn't have to worry about damaging them.

I believe this one was in Portland
I think this one is way back in the late 80's in Philadelphia

This was At the Silent Auction in Fort Collins, Colorado back in '94

Mitch at the Provo show in '92.

*Please note the same Tropical Exotic Hardwood banner at every show. Its taken some beatings over the years (nothing a little duct tape can't fix) but its still going strong.
It was at the Richmond show in July and will be at Albuquerque show in 2009.

Pricing at a past AAW show in the late 80's

Hanging out at the old Shop off State street

Gathering wood the old fashion way!!!

The two new employees at Tropical Exotic Hardwoods

Checking out the silent auction at the AAW show in Provo, Utah-1992

Mitch Cleaning Up the Shop!!!

Doing the dirty work

Down by the Belize border-1986

Here I am next to a few huge Mahogany logs at a mill in Southern Mexico on the Belize border around 1986. These logs were trucked over from Guatemala through Belize. Not many are left.

They are milled into lumber and put into a drying rack standing up.

This allows the wood to dry naturally and take on a dark color. This method is not usually used today as suppliers want to KD the lumber to get it out faster. I have a pile of Mahogany that was dried like this from the 1950's.

Check out this board!!!

This Koa piece came to me in a purchase of wood that had been stored in San Diego since 1950. The former owner was a commander in the U.S. Navy and would bring back wood on the ship he was on. I also purchased some old Honduras Mahogany with nice color in the same load. It make you wonder what is still out there to be discovered.

******piece has been sold, sorry********

Nice old picture of the old company truck

Here is the younger more slim Mitch of the late 1980's. My 1982 Chevy saw a lot of the back roads of Mexico hunting down wood. We would take it all over the US to trade shows!