Just Out of Curiosity

[jeraldb]

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Pound for pound, or better yet, inch for inch what’s the most expensive wood?

[Gingermick]

Any wood that you pay for is the most expensive

[bitingmidge]

Any wood that goes into a boat.

P

[Zed]

Ebony is the most expensive on one price list I have in my possession (retail)

$150 will buy you a super foot 12"x12"x1"

nothing else comes close

[Ross]

Pink Ivory wood - $250,000 per qm.......or so I'm told.

I have been looking for a splinter large enough to turn a pen and pencil set.

Ross

[PAH1]

Ross, pink ivory pen sets are sold by Craft supplies USA for not that great an amount of money

seecraft supplies usa (http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/)

[Ross]

I have just rung my timber supplier who assures me that at present the pink ivory is the most expensive timber listed by his overseas suppliers.

I am ordering some pink ivory pen blanks from that US site, the price they quote even in American dollars and plus freight is cheaper than I have found anywhere.

Thanks

Ross

[rsser]

Geez, I'd heard $3000 per qm for ancient redgum quoted, and thought that outrageous!

[DanP]

What's a qm? :confused:

[Sprog]

What's a qm? :confused:

cubic metre

[DanP]

That's what I figured, but why 'qm' why not 'cm' or 'm3'

Dan

[Sprog]

cm is already used for centimetre :D

[DanP]

Fair enough. But why not m3. That would seem to be the most correct to me?

[Gingermick]

Metres cubed is the way we write down (large) volumes, and cubic metres or cubes is the way they are apoken about usually at my work (consulting engineers)
mick

[JB]

Small, select pieces of Western Qld hardwoods (gidgee, mulga etc) sell for the equivelant of $20,000 to $30,000 m3 to musical instrument makers, mostly for use as finger boards in guitars. Needless to say you get a helluva lot of fingerboards out of a m3 - they buy it by the kilo. Knife handle makers also pay this sort of money for these timbers.

Before everyone throws the chainsaw in the car and heads out west to help the farmers clear what's left, bear in mind that dried rough sawn boards of the same timber sells for between $1500 and $3000 m3. And you may be battling to find a single fingerboard or knife handle quality section in many of these boards.

Statistics: Utilisation of western Qld hardwoods as speciality timbers, RIRDC publication.

[rsser]

"Pound for pound, or better yet, inch for inch what’s the most expensive wood?"

The most expensive wood is what ends up on your workshop floor as shavings, then on the garden as mulch.

[Kris.Parker1]

I'd have to agree that pink ivory is the most expensive wood out there. A lot of people tend to use it in small amounts such as to make pool cues and pens. I have never used it personally; however, do know a couple of peolpe that have used it to make inlays.

So after all that, the most expensive wood I would know of is pink ivory. The most expensive wood that I have used would have to be oak or cherry.

[ozwinner]

Opalised fossil wood.

About $2M for a good piece weighing 2 ounces.

Al :eek: