Thread: good source for Amboyna wood?

anybody have a good source for Amboyna at 1/8 x 2 or 3 x 12 or 24?

www.bellforestproducts.com

I use their 1.5x6 blocks but they have 1/8 planed wood too but I don't think in Amboyna

Edit: just checked they are out ATM, call and ask them when????

also the Sticky at the top of the Workshop section

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...wers-here.html


Always start there

Amboyna is my favorite burl tied with Thuya. If you find some try to get some highly figured wood - the look is much superior. I used Buxwoods and have found some good pieces on e-bay if you wait it out. Also Bob's exotic woods gets some good shipments in every year. Just make sure to use a liner when building the scales or you will be sorry.

a liner? can you elaborate

have a llok at blade forumms in the shop talk forum ther is a sub fgorumm that has sale of parts and wood blocks

least that can get you started

Originally Posted by Zomax

Amboyna is my favorite burl tied with Thuya. If you find some try to get some highly figured wood - the look is much superior. I used Buxwoods and have found some good pieces on e-bay if you wait it out. Also Bob's exotic woods gets some good shipments in every year. Just make sure to use a liner when building the scales or you will be sorry.

The reason for that is that burl woods are a little more fragile than most other kinds of wood.

So you'd use a liner (something made for instance of steel/brass etc, like an extra scale) to make sure the wood doesn't move and crack.

I think this isn't needed when the burl wood has been proffessionally stabilised.

Have a look at a seller called "Burl Source" on Bladeforums. He sells stabilised and non-stabilised woods all the time.

There's a couple of others that do as well over there.

Hi all. newby here.

I just wanted to mention that I agree with lining Burl scales.

Stabalized or not, the swirly nature of the grain means that in long thin pieces like for use in SR scales, it will be very fragile. Even if you managed to work it down to the shape and thickness of a scale without breaking it, you'd still have to treat it like an egg once assembled. Machining a 1/16th or so ss or brass liner to bond the Burl to would make a very attractive and much, much sturdier scale. It will also add some nice heft to the razor. I personally like a weighty razor, but to each his own.