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23rd April 2017, 08:34 PM #1
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WTB: A mix of highly detailed timbers for earring/necklace pendants
Check your off-cuts bins folks
I'm chasing a variety of STUNNING timbers to make earring and necklace pendants with. The pieces I'm making are approx 1" wide and up to 3" long (1/8"-1/4" thick) so the detail in the timber must be able to stand out in that small an area. (Some of the pendants will be laminated from strips of different timbers too.)
Tightly detailed burls might work as well as boards but I don't want to have to spend forever filling cavities. Naturally I can re-saw and dimension bigger stock but am happy to take little bits of scrap.
I'd prefer Australian natives, but really, anything gorgeous will do. I've already got Tasmanian Sassafras (cool color mixtures if cut right), fiddleback Yellow/White box and Sheoak
Some ringed Gidgee would be fantastic, maybe Zebrawood...
But show me whatever you've got that fits the description, name your price, and we both might get lucky
I'm not after a truckload of stuff, just enough for a few dozen pendants (half a dozen different designs). Maybe enough to fill a medium or large sized ParcelPost package...or there about.
NB: I guess I'd prefer to be able to buy a mixed lot from one person or else the postage is going to kill me if I've got multiple sources. We'll see how we go...Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.
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23rd April 2017, 09:21 PM #2
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Tas Sculpter has some pretty speccy Has Blackwood and Myrtle that I use for such things. Dusteater for She Oak if your that way inclined. I do have a fair bit of what I was told was Mulga that I may be prepared to part with some of.
I find that I get a pretty good return on my labour when I do pendants, earrings, ect. Sometimes you might not sell one for a while, then you will sell in a flurry. I have a range of designs I sell. I never make less than ten of a design. I figure if your gunna take a punt on a design, then jump in boots and all. The material cost is insignificant in that sort of stuff at the end of the day.
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23rd April 2017, 10:30 PM #3
He's dead Jim
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Just took a peek at your work EG. Very nice. Those Blackwood pieces are the kind of look I'm after. The Mulga is nice too (hadn't seen it before).
Thanks for the other info too. I was contacted by a gallery that wants some local woody stuff to sell so I'm trying my hand at these pendants for the first time. I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up undercharging initially, but as I get faster at making them it should even out in the end. At least it's good promotion for me in my first real venture out into the big wide world.Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.
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