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truckjohn
 Post subject: New term... Micro-lumber
PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:28 pm 
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Figured you guys would get a kick out of this Ebay auction....
"Micro lumber".... as in "Scraps"

http://cgi.ebay.com/MICRO-LUMBER-BRAZIL ... .m14.l1262

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I can't believe one of you guys wouldn't jump right on it. laughing6-hehe

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Don't just empty your dust collector. List the contents on Ebay as nano-lumber!

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Yep, just enough wood to hold the cracks together.
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13-piece BRW back!! laughing6-hehe
Actually, the longer pieces might be okay for binding....

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I don't think you could get enough superglue into those pieces to make 1 binding strip...

Long, wavy cracks was all I needed to see....

You would have the patented "Brazilian Superglue Bindings"

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This guy has been selling scraps of BRW for a while. The cracks in this are very bad but you never know what people will buy off ebay.

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bliss Ha! You guys missed out on this one altogether. He must have been taking the picture from a third story window. I went ahead and bought the wood, and it is 2" thick and 8" wide, and really long!

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David Newton wrote:
bliss Ha! You guys missed out on this one altogether. He must have been taking the picture from a third story window. I went ahead and bought the wood, and it is 2" thick and 8" wide, and really long!


you know, somebody has to say the following:

just what have you been stuffing in your pipe today?

the above given link to the auction is still active and is open for about 24 more hours....there is also no Buy Now option, so it will remain open until it expires (unless Cook Woods decides to break eBay rules)

the dimensions stated for the wood are as follows:

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36-3/4" x 1" x 1/8"
25-1/8" x 1-15/16" x 1/8"

assuming you are totally mistaken and purchased another bundle of wood with the specs you give, congratulations....

the above described wood is, as others have noted, pretty useless for a luthier because of the reasons mentioned...
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This is doable for a back and sides...

Slice it with a 3-micron Kerf laser beam...

Make 9 "Back" slices 1 15/16" x 0.060" thick

and 10 "Sides" slices 1" x 0.060" thick.

Just exercise "Normal" care during Jointing and all should be A-OK.

We don't call it "Paper thin"... Why it's at least 20x as thick as normal paper....

We call it A "Responsive Back" and "Easy to Bend Sides"

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I have a bunch of exotic toothpicks for sale? They are somewhat weathered from saliva and mastication though. I'm sure they can be reused. They are now dry again. beehive

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Zoom...right by him...


yep...you're right.. oops_sign

I've always wanted for forums to have a [sarcasm][/sarcasm] html code that's for sure duh
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Todd Stock wrote:
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yep...you're right.. oops_sign

I've always wanted for forums to have a [sarcasm][/sarcasm] html code that's for sure duh


We all get caught once in a while idunno

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I love the smell of BRW. I've seen closets lined in cedar. I wonder if I could get enough Braz........"micro lumber" to line a closet laughing6-hehe laughing6-hehe laughing6-hehe

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