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Sigh. The passing of another American Icon. I wonder if anyone even remembers the full name that the letters stood for. It didn't seem grandiose in the company's early days.

My experience with buying (and just looking) at Lowes is that all of their stuff (pine, red oak, poplar, cherry, aspen, etc) is excellent quality but massivly overpriced.

As Mike suggested, I assume you are talking about gummy cherry. There's a page on it on my site.

I agree w/ Mark on both point. Basswood does tend to fuzz up but normally isn't hard to saw at all so you probably have some tension wood.

In fact, I've NEVER seen anything like it.

My friend David Clark, author of Timber in Australia in Colour (he's Australian and can't spell), often travels to China and occasionally sends me pics...

Gorgeous wood, and beautifully turned.

Gorgeous bowls. I've never turned butternut ... sorry to hear it's such a pain but clearly the results were worth it

White rot is not necessarily punky at all. I've had plenty that is but also plenty that isn't the least bit punky. I don't even know if you can make specific correlations for things like age of tree,...

If you look at the pics on my site it will give you an idea of what I have to go through. Here's an answer I just gave on WoodWorkingChat:

For formal samples that I get on loan, I may or may not...

Went down to the wilds of PA last week to visit my friend Mark Peet who is a bit of a wood scientist, a bit of an urban sawyer, and avid collector of wood samples. He loaned me another set of samples...

Sorry, all the other sites I'm on allow links in your signature so I keep forgetting that this site is unfriendly and doesn't allow that.

Late last year when I was pretty sure I wouldn't be getting any more batches of samples for the site, my friend David Clark in Australia decided to do a book on rosewoods and had about 3 dozen...

Occasionally I need a whacker that is softer than a steel hammer and harder than a rubber mallet and, being the professional that I am, I just smack things with a two by four, or a smaller piece of...

I agree w/ those who've said:
1) splinters are a REAL problem (boy are they nasty)
2) it can be very tough to work with because of the stringiness.

As Mark's planes show, though, it...

Yeah, DNA takes of shellac pretty nicely.

Beautifully done. I agree it's very hard to believe that's your first it is such a good job.

I uses Norton for day to day protection on my Windows 7 laptop and then run SpyBot occasionally. along with a registry cleaner.

I love the way this one looks. Nice job !

Generally has a very sharp contrast between early wood and late wood, so the grain lines stand out very nicely on turned objects.

Beautifully turned bowl. Love those flakes. There's absolutely no way this is anything but sycamore.

You can still buy a framing hammer, with the cross-hatched strike face, but nowhere am I able to find the nails that used to be used with them, with the same cross-hatching on the head. I wanted some...

Anthony,

Missed this when you posted it. I'll PM my address. Thanks.

Paul

another +1 on the blue stained pine (but really, it could be anything in the SPF group, I'm just more used to seeing that kind of blue stain in pine).

Two pieces of wood showed up recently with only a last name (King) on the return address and as I had completely forgotten about this thread, I had no idea who had sent them. I get pieces from folks...