Thread: Handsome 7 day set

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

...when it is gone,it is gone forever.
Going to bight the bullit and make a Coromandel Brush handle later today,will be a small one

The woodworker's dilemma: our passion for the material is part of (and admittedly a very small part in some cases) the cause of its demise.

Looking forward to seeing the brush!

Sorry... have wandered a bit

Originally Posted by Cangooner

The woodworker's dilemma: our passion for the material is part of (and admittedly a very small part in some cases) the cause of its demise.

Looking forward to seeing the brush!

Sorry... have wandered a bit

So true.>>>>>>>>>>>>

That beautiful wood just beckons to be turned into a beautiful brush handle or razor scales. I say go for it!

Originally Posted by Cangooner

The woodworker's dilemma: our passion for the material is part of (and admittedly a very small part in some cases) the cause of its demise.

Looking forward to seeing the brush!

Sorry... have wandered a bit

Not really. The demise is purely due to shortsightedness and the willingness of people to make a quick buck.
If any care was given to proper forestry, woods would not go extinct barring climatological causes.

Originally Posted by Bruno

The demise is purely due to shortsightedness and the willingness of people to make a quick buck.
If any care was given to proper forestry, woods would not go extinct barring climatological causes.

I couldn't agree more - hence the "very small part" I attributed to woodworkers.

As for the climatalogical situation, one only has to look at the devastation wrought in Western NA by the pine bark beetle. Milder winters reduced the beetles' mortality that would normally have been caused by cold winters, which led to a huge increase in numbers of beetles which in turn led to massive areas of coniferous forest being essentially wiped out.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Not really. The demise is purely due to shortsightedness and the willingness of people to make a quick buck.
If any care was given to proper forestry, woods would not go extinct barring climatological causes.

Make a quik buck is correct,Sadley most of the worlds great woods grow in impoverished countrys, and like africas elephant Ivory the source is being desimated,Is all about money.
Most of the great woods take hundreds of yrs to mature into lumber and unlike teak cannot be plantation grown.
When it is gone it will be gone for ever
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