Thread: Some nice firewood

yep i do it as well

Start looking into selling knife scale blanks. Knife makers aren't as stingy as woodturners and love timber with fiddle

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Start looking into selling knife scale blanks. Knife makers aren't as stingy as woodturners and love timber with fiddle

Next time you’re in Melbourne, come and see me and take me through the process of process of making them.

Originally Posted by Acco

Next time you’re in Melbourne, come and see me and take me through the process of process of making them.

I'll be down late Nov or Dec and probably stay until after Xmas & NYE

As they say "one mans firewood is another wood workers treasure."

Shame to see such interesting fiddle back go in the fire, but finding wood turners / workers with short pockets and long arms is a tall order.

Couple of nice box lids in there.

Yep. It can be a hard choice alright.

We've gone through about 6m of firewood, mainly Ironbark, this year. At least 1m of it has been beautifully fiddlebacked, which is heartbreaking considering that I've been mainly turning small, finialled, "gobletty" things lately and the grain is just not suitable for this.

Naturally I've cherry-picked a few pieces and put 'em aside, but in general I can only have so many large turned items lying around before they become eligible candidates for the fireplace...

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Start looking into selling knife scale blanks. Knife makers aren't as stingy as woodturners and love timber with fiddle

Possibly cos they got no money left after forking out for all the tools needed to do their tasks - lathes, tools, chucks, this that and the other. I've found turning to be like owing a boat, - Break Out Another Thousand. funnily enough I do both, i have a boat and I turn wood. hahaha

You are all mad. Sell it on Gumtree.

I cried a little on the inside when you said that piece went in the fire.

Can I suggest that you slice these into knife scales?

The guys who sell on Ebay, Etsy and the knife forums are chopping up excellent and beautiful timbers into scales simply because they get a better return.

It is of course, a complete HERESY. An obscenity and affront that perfectly good box timber is treated in such a manner, BUT for these odd pieces that have lots of cracks, inclusions and scabby bits, slicing into scales makes sense.

PLUS if you drive the price down by flooding the market, they will be pleased.

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