Goncalo Alves Crotch Slabs

We recieved a few Goncalo Alves crotch Slabs with the Jotaba Shipment.

Also known as "Tiger wood" this wood has a gorgeous dark streaking figure on top of a Honey Gold colored heartwood.

Since these pieces are crotch slabs there will be some really interesting stuff going on as well

Jatoba Crotch Slabs

These are some nice Jatoba Crotch Slabs that are coffee table sized.

They are however 4-5" thick which maybe a little much for some people.

If you want thinner stock - check out-

Jatoba Crotch Slabs #1-3 or

Goncalo Alves Slabs #10 & 11

"Smaller" Jatoba Crotch Slabs

These are the smallest Jatoba Crotch slabs that we have in terms of thickness.

They are unsurfaced but you can still see the figure in most of them. They are too wide for our planer and belt sanding them all would take forever.

For examples of what the crotch figure looks like please refer to the pictures on our "slabs" page on our website.

Dimensions are on each picture.

Snakewood Bow by Doug Ross

Archery Bow by Customer Doug Ross.

Speaking of Snakewood we just pulled out a bunch of old Snakewood stock and cleaned a whole bunch for the showroom. Really nice squares, logs, penblanks, thin stock, bow staves, etc..
And most of the stuff is nice and Dry!!!

These squares are nice and long & Dry

Little thin stock and pen blanks for inlay and other small intricate work

Freshly milled blanks being sealed out of a larger log.

If the full logs are what your after we have a couple of them as well.


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Alert! Alert! Piece of Pommele Cocobolo Found!

Remember these Guys???

We found a half dozen pieces of the most highly figured Pommele figure we had ever seen in Cocobolo in our last load.

The pieces sold almost immediatly but we figured there had to be more from the same log somewhere amongst the rest of the 5000 BF of stock that we recieved.

After pulling apart a couple pallet loads and not coming across any we began to think maybe that was the last of that crazy looking Cocobolo until...


We found this guy today!

2"x2"x48" Turning Square of the same stuff.

Its hard to show the amazing figure in pictures since it not very wide, but hopefully they give you an idea.

Give us call if you want this guy.

PIECE HAS BEEN SOLD, SORRY

We'll post again if we come across more...

Crotch Tops!

Crotch Slabs always look great for coffee tables, small end tables, bars, and if you can find one big enough, for dining or conference tables.

The best figure on most trees is always right were any two limbs separate from the main trunk.

This is were you find gorgeous feathery figure which often times includes a little curl, burl, spalt, quilt, bark inclusions, etc...

Its always a treat when we finally see a certain crotch slab thats been laying against our back wall in a finished piece. Crotch pieces never disappoint-they always look beautiful!

Here are various crotch slabs we have here at the shop that are just begging for a unique project.

This Bocote crotch piece is much like the finished piece above.

The top is where the crotch figure will be but the rest of the piece seems to have very interesting figure as well-as you can see in the picture even though its still rough sawn.

We think this one will look especially striking since it has a solid white sap line along all the edges.

Once sanded and finished the contrast between the dark heartwood and the white natural-edged sap, combined with the crotch figure will be very nice.

Here is a small Pink Ivory crotch slab.

If you know wood, you probably know Pink Ivory is one of the most sought after woods in existence.

So you can imagine how rare a slab like this is.

This one would make a great side table.

Match it up with some kind of ebony stand and you have a great looking table made out of high end African woods.

This is a nice long cocobolo crotch Slab.

This is Jatoba from Brazil. Nice wide example how big some crotch pieces can get

This is what we mean by feathery crotch figure.

This is an extreme example but you get the picture.

I guess this isn't exactly a crotch piece, but I figured I'd include it anyways since it still follows roughly the same shap.

WANT TO GO BIG???

We have about 3 or 4 of these monsters.

12 foot long Solid Jatoba Crotch Slabs.

We just sold a couple of these that will be set side by side "yin-yang" style- to make a massive table top.

It will also include solid Jatoba legs milled out of another Crotch Slab.

We can't wait to see the finished piece!

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Exotic Wood Rattles by Melvin Bitsui

Our good friend Melvin drops by every now and then to pick up assorted exotics for his high end rattles. He does very beautiful work as you can see by the intricate carving on each piece. Here we see a couple made of Ebony and Pink Ivory.