Thread: Assorted Woods

Originally Posted by Lynn

I really like the Lacewood, Cocobola, Purple Heart and even some of the nice Olivewoods I have seen lately. Some of the Bocote that is heavily grained is nice too. Ebony is always nice. Some of the local shops have slabs cut in 1/8 inch sometimes too.

Lynn

That reminds me that I need to try to find Olivewood somewhere. I like the look of that a lot. I keep forgetting to do that when I get sidetracked.

I know bellforestproducts has some. I think upon hearing Glens advice about canarywood being very light I am just going to try Wenge. It is relatively cheap, hard, and I love the way it looks. The local shop also has 1/8 slabs of Walnut, so I might give that a go too.

Arrggghhh! You found my secret source!

Originally Posted by turbine712

I have gone to Rockler and in their back room they have a big wooden tub that is filled with end cuts and small pieces of woods. I picked up some Jatoba, Lacewood, Kempas and Cocobolo. Some of the boards were 1"X12X16-18" in length. I ripped them down to 2 1/4" and then re-sawed it to 5/32". I picked up all of that wood for less than $20.00 and most of it was the big size. They had a lot of wood Ebony, Pink Ivory, Purple Heart and Paduk. I didn't spend a lot of time digging way down deep but I'm sure if I did I would of found more. Oh, I even picked up some 1X6 Birds Eye Maple and some rough Curly Maple too.

Wild Olive wood is my all time favorite. The stuff is so dense it will sink! It has such fantasitic grain structure, and if you can find a nice Olive burl ... It is very nice to work with as well. Makes the shop smell like Olive oil.