Thread: Rosewood

Nice haul Paul, not the sort of stuff you really want to get rid of.
Presumably the lady involved will receive a rather nice rosewood box at some stage .

I drive past your place quite often so I can do you a favour & drop in & take it off your hands. Just to help you out of course.

Paul, Well obviously this “Bowl game” is the problem, nice score.

Cheers Matt.

Thanks all, and yes I will have to make the woman a nice little Rosewood box. Yesterday, when looking at all this, I ummed and ahhed and thought, how am I gonna get all this home, and I have a reasonable amount of Rosewood already, I left then, thought more about it overnight, phoned her this morning, yes all still there, then off I goes with my Ozito circular saw.

I was just sussing out Rosewood on ebay, can't believe how much some of it is. Another mate at bowls, he is a builder, runs a very large building business, was only saying the other day how much timber and steel have gone up in price, says it is ridiculous.

Paul

Maybe an archtop rosewood guitar with a couple of those panels...When you get around to it.

Well Paul, you can't help bad luck. People putting good timber in front of your nose and expecting that you might take it off their hands, they should be ashamed of themselves😏. But really, it's nice when you come across those sorts of hauls and you can see straight away that it is going to be very useful without having to sort through it and get rid of any rubbish amongst it. Doesn't look like it even had a lick of paint on it to get rid of like some old furniture.
I suppose we won't hear from you for a while while you are using it all up.😉 I notice some special features in the 10th piece from the top. Will you be incorporating them into a box🤣

Hi Dallas, how's it going mate. Yes that piece has some screws stuck out the side of it. I'll worry about those when the time comes. Other pieces have a few nails in them I knocked the tops off, I put a big chalk cross where those are. Will be more than sufficient to work around these things.

I probably wont get to all these for a bit, getting close to the finishing stages of those 37 resin boxes I been working on. Got one custom order nearly completed, now my grand daughter is arriving tomorrow arvo in her motor home and is wanting the carpet ripped up and a floating floor put in place,....hmmm...!

Paul

Hi Paul,

A brilliant score - congratulations! Colour me green with envy

Best regards,

Brian

We are not jealous ..... much!

If I repeat that 1000 times I may convince myself. Thou shalt not covert thy fellow wood workers wood stash.

I constantly get scalded for stopping suddenly & picking up a roadside find, most younger folk have no idea the value of Australian cabinet timbers.

Cheers.

Hi gang,

First two boxes made from that Rosewood. Two identical Watch boxes. A woman contacted me about 18 months ago and wanted a watch box for her husband to hold 6 watches and a lot of pairs of cufflinks. I made her that same sort of box, but made two at the time. She bought hers and the other sold rather quickly. So a lot of blokes out there still wearing or collecting watches and still wearing cufflinks.

I thought for my first use of all that Rosewood, I would make another two. All compartment sides lined with velvet, padded velvet bottoms in each compartment and a velvet pillow. Plus 8 pairs of cufflinks or 16 rings, or any combination.

Next set of two will be for just 6 watches and then another set of two for 4 watches.

Got another little sort of box in mind for this Rosewood. But all those will have to wait a bit, heading off next week, over to son's place in Molong for a few days, then jumping on the Outback Explorer train at Orange (starts at Sydney), and off to Broken Hill. I love the outback, love Broken Hill. About 3 weeks away.

Paul