Every time I have bought wood in the past it was for a specific
project. But while at the Borg Sunday shuffling throught the rack of
Maple for an upcoming project, I came across a piece of spalted
Maple. Somehow this beautiful piece of wood missed the sorting
process and ended up at the Borg and was overlooked until I arrived.
I had no choice but to buy it.
After I got home and carefully stacked all the rest of the lumber I
had bought I looked at the spalted piece more carefully outside and
saw the board was also curly. What luck!, a 10' 1x6 curly, spalted
Maple board for less than $30!
So now what? Should I cut this board up and build a simple box out of
this gorgeous piece of wood? Use it sparingly for accent parts of
numerous projects? Wait and keep looking the board over until the
board reveals to me what it wants to be?
Methinks I need a bandsaw...
Nice find. I have my eye on a $400 book-matched spalted maple pair
over at Northwest Timber. I won't point out exactly which ones I want
but if you haven't seen their stuff they have a great online store
(just rebuilt) with lots of wood porn pictures. http://www.nwtimber.com/
For the piece you describe, I would think about a table top for a
hallway\console\couch table. You know the sort like sets behind a
couch or along a hallway, etc. With a 10' x 6" you could cut two
pieces 36" for an 11-1/2" wide top and have another single 6" wide
piece for a lower spreader\shelf. Maybe some nice Walnut or other dark
colored legs and apron to compliment some of the color in the
spalting.
On Aug 20, 11:50 am, RayV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Every time I have bought wood in the past it was for a specific
> project. But while at the Borg Sunday shuffling throught the rack of
> Maple for an upcoming project, I came across a piece of spalted
> Maple. Somehow this beautiful piece of wood missed the sorting
> process and ended up at the Borg and was overlooked until I arrived.
> I had no choice but to buy it.
>
> After I got home and carefully stacked all the rest of the lumber I
> had bought I looked at the spalted piece more carefully outside and
> saw the board was also curly. What luck!, a 10' 1x6 curly, spalted
> Maple board for less than $30!
>
> So now what? Should I cut this board up and build a simple box out of
> this gorgeous piece of wood? Use it sparingly for accent parts of
> numerous projects? Wait and keep looking the board over until the
> board reveals to me what it wants to be?
>
> Methinks I need a bandsaw...
Bob AZ <[email protected]> wrote in news:1187663056.486715.116540
@r23g2000prd.googlegroups.com:
> ?Wait and keep looking the board over until the
>> board reveals to me what it wants to be?
>>
>> Methinks I need a bandsaw...
>
> I vote for the waiting and the bandsaw.
>
> Bob AZ
>
>
You must be from one of the Chicago suburbs... One that didn't understand
you have to change your name to vote early and vote often! ;)
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