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Resawn board to be used as a veneer for a custom door. Phone camera/shitty shop lights didn't do full justice to how beautiful the board was. The blueish part is the part that sat in the mud. I'm guessing it's an older tree that's been underwater for a long while bc of how tight the grain is and the color it developed from absorbing the minerals in the silt.

Resawn board to be used as a veneer for a custom door. Phone camera/shitty shop lights didn't do full justice to how beautiful the board was. The blueish part is the part that sat in the mud. I'm guessing it's an older tree that's been underwater for a long while bc of how tight the grain is and the color it developed from absorbing the minerals in the silt.

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If you ever get thousands of dollars use heavy stiff endangered KONA Wood for veneers on Sub-Z (Sub-Zero) freezers and refrigerator doors :

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=kona+wood&iax=images&ia=images

I swoon everytime I visit a millionaires home on Nantucket that has KONA Wood in kitchen/catering prep rooms.

Jeff Bezos had four identical KONA WOOD veneer Sub-Zero freezers at one east coast mansion, and all other millionaires copied him on the East Coast.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sub-Zero+veneer+wood&t=ffsb&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

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I love fancy wood, profiled 300' of ebony for someones wine racks, my company charged $35k for lumber/machining, the guy putting it together charged the customer $90k!!! Boss let me keep the 1 extra 10' board and the cut backs. Still trying to figure out on what to do with those.

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Always save one unfinished , perfectly planed, 6 or 4 inch cube wood sample to add to your collection.

Then play "Guess the type of wood" with other friends, and have them drop their jaws at the astounding density and beauty of woods like Ebony and Kona and much heavier harder endangered woods.

Only the prettiest or heaviest are the most interesting to add to your collection of "GUESS THIS WOOD" :

https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/restricted-and-endangered-wood-species/

You obviously need to mix in wood blocks from 10 famous american woods too.

No one would ever guess more than 10% of these 10 less famous iron-woods :

https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/top-ten-heaviest-woods/

Why cubes?

So you can stack them in little stacks on a shelf.

Just dont invite the Feds to your house or garage.

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Lol you must be a fellow wood worker. I work with some people that have been in the industry for a while but are still unable to distinguish hard from soft maple or red from white oak.

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DO NOT STAIN THAT WOOD!!!

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That's how you and I see it, some rich idiot is probably going to end up priming it :( Seen it happen to some gorgeous sapelle before.

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Right next to me I have a Hawaiian solid koa nightstand, probably 60 years old. Found it on Craigslist for 30 bucks, it was covered in several layers of paint. I had a hunch it might be mahogany, so I bought it and stripped it down. 'KOA, WHAT DA FAAAK!'

I refinished it, and gave it to my wife. Then she left me, and I kept it. Now it's for sale.

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Wow, that is really cool.

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Who are you dick Wawad?

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Who is dick Wawad?

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Thats what Im askin, heh. Its a play on words.

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Then why are you here?

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Thats not working for you buddy

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Oh its workin’.

Watch those idle compaints.

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What stain did you use?

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I don't do finishing, I machine and put things together for whatever project you want.

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How high did you get from the river?

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It is a beautiful piece of wood. Thought you might have taken psychedelics, the way the title read.

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Lol I re-read it and I see what you mean. I'm a few beers deep and I'll allow it

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I kept 2 large walnut heartwood planks from basement shelves from my old house. The house was over 100 years old.

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Make some hippy dildos

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Very nice.

I stained oak thresholds today. I know that's not impressive but someone who loves seeing the grain come to life in any wood, it's nice. I don't stain often and I don't get to work with wood often, but I sure have appreciation for it. I was short one threshold width of wood so I went to our wood shop and they had giant slabs of live edge. I didn't have my phone to take a photo but one particular piece made me wish I had a place to use it.

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I get you. My company caters to the highest priced zip code in US and nobody wants wild/unusual grain. My garage is starting to become a habitat for the one off/amazing looking boards.

I'm terrible at stain/finishing, but I think it's because everything I make should be clear coated to preserve the natural beauty of the wood and the way I match color/grain. I'm a total nerd when it comes to wood.

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I could see becoming of that mindset. I love wood and loathe the last decade's attempt at erasing through ruination quality made wood furniture through "chalk paint" and washes. Right now I really like using a blow torch to highlight the grain in wood. That probably makes you cringe inside. I've only done it to the shelter my husband cut from fresh pine for our goats. I don't think I would do it to interior wood. I like stain a lot more for that.

Our last house, which is the one I'm putting thresholds in, had amazingly gorgeous cabinets before the last "lady" of the house ruined them. She decided to white wash, then teal wash, perfect mahogany. I was told by the prior neighbors that the house looked like it belonged in a magazine before she moved in(we bought it as a foreclosure). She also splattered the walls with texture to try to make it look like stucco inside. She was Mexican and wanted it to look like home. I won't bother to tell you how much effort I put into trying to remove the half assed texture off walls and ceilings. Avacado green, magenta, and teal were the kitchen colors. Really. I wish I had a photo of it.

I would really enjoy seeing some of your garage if you're of the mind to share it. I love texture, whether it's in the form of soft fiber (knitted, crocheted, quilted) or wood. I think the degeneration of our society's skill work in all facets of life is a great injury to our sense of well being, although there are many other areas that are more immediate in their impact to our emotional and psychological homeostasis.