Arron
21st March 2017, 03:27 PM
I have made up 2 more marquetry packs and they are available to anyone who wants them.
Free, just need you to pay for postage.
The way this works is:
Just indicate you want one below, and I'll send you my postal address. You can send me an Australia Post prepaid satchel with your address on it, I"ll fill it with one of these piles and send it back to you.
I think you will need the medium size satchel - see here https://auspost.com.au/parcels-mail/...hels-envelopes . The medium satchels are $13.80.
Alternatively, if you want to pick them up in person from my Epping (NSW) address that is fine.
And if you have a better way of getting them which is prepaid then that is fine too.
A bit about these. There are about 50 sheets in each. Most are about A4 size, some are smaller. There should be 20-25 types in each - probably 15-20 species plus various reconstituted types. There are various splits in the marquetry - mostly fairly small - I guess I could have avoided most of these but as I imagine they will be used for marquetry and similar woodcrafts you'll be cutting them up into small pieces anyway. Each weighs about 1200grams. There will be a few burls and highly figured stuff - but not many.
Looking though briefly, I see black walnut, cherry, English oak, white oak, harewood, ash, meranti, qld maple, silky oak, ng rosewood, wenge, blackwood, bubinga and rock maple. I will try to name them if I get time, but we are moving and time is limited. There isn't as much whiter timbers (useful for backgrounds) as I would like - it used to be easy to get rock maple when veneer shops used downgrade rock maple as backer sheets, but now its got too dear for that purpose so I'm nearly out of white veneers. Its also mostly linear grain, not burls or figured, which reflects the sad state of my own stash.
There is a bias towards harder species (sorry) so would suit machine marquetry (scrollsaw, chevalier) better then the knife-cut approach.
All 0.64mm commercial veneer.
cheers
Arron
408835
Free, just need you to pay for postage.
The way this works is:
Just indicate you want one below, and I'll send you my postal address. You can send me an Australia Post prepaid satchel with your address on it, I"ll fill it with one of these piles and send it back to you.
I think you will need the medium size satchel - see here https://auspost.com.au/parcels-mail/...hels-envelopes . The medium satchels are $13.80.
Alternatively, if you want to pick them up in person from my Epping (NSW) address that is fine.
And if you have a better way of getting them which is prepaid then that is fine too.
A bit about these. There are about 50 sheets in each. Most are about A4 size, some are smaller. There should be 20-25 types in each - probably 15-20 species plus various reconstituted types. There are various splits in the marquetry - mostly fairly small - I guess I could have avoided most of these but as I imagine they will be used for marquetry and similar woodcrafts you'll be cutting them up into small pieces anyway. Each weighs about 1200grams. There will be a few burls and highly figured stuff - but not many.
Looking though briefly, I see black walnut, cherry, English oak, white oak, harewood, ash, meranti, qld maple, silky oak, ng rosewood, wenge, blackwood, bubinga and rock maple. I will try to name them if I get time, but we are moving and time is limited. There isn't as much whiter timbers (useful for backgrounds) as I would like - it used to be easy to get rock maple when veneer shops used downgrade rock maple as backer sheets, but now its got too dear for that purpose so I'm nearly out of white veneers. Its also mostly linear grain, not burls or figured, which reflects the sad state of my own stash.
There is a bias towards harder species (sorry) so would suit machine marquetry (scrollsaw, chevalier) better then the knife-cut approach.
All 0.64mm commercial veneer.
cheers
Arron
408835