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Author:  Ziegenfuss [ Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:18 am ]
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Another reason why visiting every little wood store every place you travel is important...

You might just find a 50" x 3.6" x 10" piece of air dried cocobolo with only one check...

Off to the resaw!

Stephen
Author:  Corky Long [ Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:27 am ]
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Sweeeet!

Wear your respirator - ;)
Author:  Ziegenfuss [ Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:37 am ]
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Yep, that is me...just turned 26 and loving it...even still, I am barely strong enough to pick up the coco!
Author:  Hank Mauel [ Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:43 pm ]
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Ziegenfuss wrote:
Yep, that is me...just turned 26 and loving it...even still, I am barely strong enough to pick up the coco!


Yeah, that's why an "old guy" would use a hand truck! laughing6-hehe
As my old German grandpa said "You get too soon old and too late schmart"! At 64, I know what he meant. [headinwall]

Nice score on the wood. Too bad I can't work the stuff anymore as it does bad things to my respiratory system...even with a respirator...any residual chokes me up. [xx(]
Author:  J Coleman [ Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:56 pm ]
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sweet deal.... could you show me the checker in the wood? I dont know what that is. Im such a newbie
Author:  Zach Ehley [ Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:30 pm ]
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J Coleman wrote:
sweet deal.... could you show me the checker in the wood? I dont know what that is. Im such a newbie


check=crack near the end of the piece from drying
Author:  Bailey [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:00 pm ]
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I think the only tool I had when I was 26 was a stone scraper. Nice Find!
I found a beautiful really old oak barn beam outside Germantown Wis. a couple years ago. It was laying on a lawn with a sign "TAKE ME". The sucker weighed about 250 lbs and I brought it back to Colorado in my minihome. I had to bungee the back door because it stuck out the back door about a ft.
New student to Luthier but a REALLY Old GUY that eyes wood everywhere I go.
Kent
Author:  Ziegenfuss [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:12 pm ]
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That is definately the way to do it ecenomically - just keep your eyes open. you never know what you will find!

Old oak - that stuff gets hard!
Author:  James Orr [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:37 pm ]
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26! Nice. I'm 28. It's strange not to be the youngest.
Author:  ChuckH [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:35 pm ]
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I am 52, I thought I was the youngest.........hey.......lol

Nice find and nice figure. (I mean in the wood...lol)
Author:  Todd Rose [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:20 pm ]
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I'm a nine-year-old boy in the body of a man approaching fifty. Every time I look in the mirror, I'm shocked, and then I remember, oh yeah, I inhabit the body of a man approaching fifty. It's kinda weird, but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it.
Author:  Zach Ehley [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:59 pm ]
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Ziegenfuss wrote:
That is definately the way to do it ecenomically - just keep your eyes open. you never know what you will find!


Agreed. I found some nice Coco, Af Blackwood and Ziricote after digging through the piles at a lumberyard not too far from home. Thats the first two pics. I then stopped at their other store a few months later that is in the opposite direction. Some more Coco and Af Blackwood waiting to get cut up.

I got three really nice FB blanks and ten bridge blanks out of the first AfBlkwd board for the price of one FB blank. Ive been back a couple times since, but no luck.
Author:  ChristopherOtto [ Sat Dec 12, 2009 2:39 am ]
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Zach Ehley wrote:
... Ive been back a couple times since, but no luck.


Aha, now it all makes sense -- between you and Bruce Petros (the guy at the North store told me he's a customer,) no wonder I can't find much quartersawn interesting stuff when I go looking there...
Author:  mnemotorsports [ Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:35 am ]
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nice find, post some pics after the resaw.

At what age did you do your first build? I'm 28 and about to start my first.
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