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13th March 2024, 05:30 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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Rosewood
Hi gang, I was playing a social game of bowls yesterday against a lady and having a drink after the game, she says...Hey Paul, its council roadside pickup coming up in a couple of days ( Urunga where I bowl at, 15kms from me, is in the Bellingen Shire, I live at Valla Beach, Nambucca Shire), we are tossing out a very old timber cupboard/entertainment unit/whatever it was called, and its made from Rosewood. I said you sure its Rosewood, she says yes, so we have been told. Was in the house when they bought the house 8 years ago, weighs a ton, and now want to get rid of it. So they obviously somehow pulled it all apart, just to move it to the roadside curb. I drove her home and no way would I fit it into my Kia Sportage. I drove back this morning with my Ozito cordless circular saw, (love it) and ripped it up to fit into my car.
I just spent most of the afternoon ripping it up on my DeWalt table saw, it was all 20mm thick. (there are also two panels that were in a panel frame door 12mm thick, not in photo). These lengths are about 900mm long. I am supposed to be getting rid of timber, recently another mate at bowls gave me quite a few nice lengths of (also) Rosewood and some Jacaranda. So my "getting rid of timber" idea isnt working that well.
Should get a few boxes out of this lot.
Paul
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13th March 2024, 06:25 PM #2
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 .Cheers, Bob the labrat
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13th March 2024, 07:05 PM #3
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.
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13th March 2024, 09:20 PM #4
Paul, Well obviously this “Bowl game” is the problem, nice score.
Cheers Matt.
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13th March 2024, 09:46 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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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
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13th March 2024, 10:15 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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Maybe an archtop rosewood guitar with a couple of those panels...When you get around to it.
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14th March 2024, 08:59 AM #7
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🤣Dallas
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14th March 2024, 10:54 AM #8GOLD MEMBER
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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
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14th March 2024, 11:08 AM #9GOLD MEMBER
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Hi Paul,
A brilliant score - congratulations! Colour me green with envy
Best regards,
Brian
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14th March 2024, 02:27 PM #10
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.Mobyturns
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23rd March 2024, 01:49 PM #11Woodie.
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Free wood is always good wood.
I constantly get scalded for stopping suddenly & picking up a roadside find, most younger folk have no idea the value of Australian cabinet timbers.
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25th April 2024, 04:12 PM #12GOLD MEMBER
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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
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30th April 2024, 09:09 AM #13GOLD MEMBER
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Watch boxes always sell fast, one sold already on Etsy. Luckily, as I am heading off tomorrow for a few weeks, heading outback to Broken Hill,
Paul
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7th May 2024, 02:20 PM #14GOLD MEMBER
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Arrived at Broken Hill last night on the train, now the other Rosewood watch box is sold. Etsy is going crazy at present, few sales just before I left, plus another 3 sales and a custom order since I left home, for when I get back home.
Paul
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30th May 2024, 02:39 PM #15GOLD MEMBER
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Hi guys, back from out west, home early last week. This is my next project from all that Rosewood. I started this just before we went away, and finished it a few days ago. I call it my "games box". All from Rosewood, except the base, that was pine. My next ones I will do the base with Rosewood also. I made the dominoes from resin (fire red) and poured another set yesterday. 2 packs of playing cards. 2 x 40mm dominoes from Rosewood, purely as a novelty, to use for whatever, plus 5 normal dice for yahtzee or whatever.
I designed the logo and paid a person on Etsy in New York to create it for me. Not sure if I could have done that myself but I organised that whilst at Broken Hill, they charged me AUS $20, so pretty happy with that. On a jpg file.
Just before we went away I got talking to a woman in Coffs Harbour, who manages a very high class up market art and crafts shop in the main CBD Mall in Coffs Harbour. I have looked in the shop numerous times every time I am there, some very nice work, particularly a woman who does resin cheese platters and things like that. One thing led to another, she looked at my Etsy shop and offered a deal. I put 11 boxes in there a day or two before we went away, 2 have sold already, so will see how it all goes. I think she has about 40 contributors from various people on the Coffs Coast.
Paul
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