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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #180 on: March 18, 2024, 09:51:13 PM »
What is that beautiful straight vertical grain material you got there?  I’ve got some lace maple that looks just like that tiger striped piece ya got there. Is that actually maple?

Btw…. Nice job on the sander. You are going to love that with a 36 grit belt.  You would be wise to polish that piece of steel with 3M pads and seal it with a clear coat.
I used. 1/2”  aluminum on my table and it was damn expensive ….. I put a couple legs under the outside corners of mine to help carry the weight.    :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #181 on: March 18, 2024, 10:45:11 PM »
Nice setup :thumbsup:
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #182 on: March 18, 2024, 10:50:53 PM »
Hey Kirk, the lighter figured piece is Tigerwood? My wood guy brought a bunch in to mill flooring. I just happened to see this piece and he sold it to me the other wood is zebra and Wenge.

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #183 on: March 18, 2024, 11:53:06 PM »
I got the sinew wraps on front and back of the fletching of this latest dozen arrows. Spun up a string for another bow and put on a serving. Then I upgraded my tillering tree that hangs on the privacy fence so that I can add a scale between the pull rope and the bow string. Couple more coats of shellac on an osage recurve. Played with the dogs. (Got a six month old half yeller lab half golden retriever pup in the house. While I was eating a pork roast sammich for lunch she was occupied snapping at dust motes that were shimmering in a beam of light coming through the window.) Packed up a couple items for trades and got them sent off through the post office. Was cutting nocks in the cowhorn tip overlays of a hickory bow I am working on and busted the tile cutting saw blade in my coping saw. Dang saw blade cost me about five bucks twenty years ago and all I got out of it was a couple hundred string nocks and about a thousand arrow nocks before it gave up the ghost. That did it for me, I quit for today. Fed the dogs dinner and settled in to watch some tv this evening while looking at the insides of my eyelids. Was a good day off work.

Tomorrow I have physical therapy early in the morning, then plan on taking the dogs to the woods for a ramble in the brambles.

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #184 on: March 19, 2024, 04:18:17 AM »
JW, sounds to me you need to find a hobby, something to pass the time. :bigsmyl:

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #185 on: March 19, 2024, 12:48:20 PM »
Hey Bryan I have been using tigerwood AKA Goncalo alves for years- That pice looks nothing like tigerwood
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #186 on: March 20, 2024, 01:52:50 AM »
Hey Bryan I have been using tigerwood AKA Goncalo alves for years- That pice looks nothing like tigerwood
no must be the light lol definetly the species !

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #187 on: March 20, 2024, 10:10:59 AM »
Hey Bryan I have been using tigerwood AKA Goncalo alves for years- That pice looks nothing like tigerwood
no must be the light lol definetly the species !
 
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #188 on: March 20, 2024, 12:52:25 PM »
Hey Kirk, the lighter figured piece is Tigerwood? My wood guy brought a bunch in to mill flooring. I just happened to see this piece and he sold it to me the other wood is zebra and Wenge.

That beautiful straight grained Zebra wood will make very high performance limb cores. I used to use it together with Wenge or Paduke for hot rod  speed bows. Very hard to beat in that regard.    Kirk
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #189 on: March 20, 2024, 12:54:33 PM »
Hey Bryan I have been using tigerwood AKA Goncalo alves for years- That pice looks nothing like tigerwood

I agree…. Doesn’t look like any tiger wood I’ve seen either.

This is tigerwood….

https://www.phillipsforestproducts.com/Species/tiger-wood
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #190 on: March 20, 2024, 01:17:39 PM »
Honestly guys, this makes this piece that much more valuable  :biglaugh: i’ll put this to rest now. I’ve worked with a lot of Tigerwood also installing hardwood floors that looks exactly like what you guys have seen but never underestimate the power of mother nature and sometimes looking outside the box. I will say this piece is unique because I’ve never seen a piece of Tigerwood with the figure that this piece has. Here’s a couple more pictures from two different suppliers that look very similar.]
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #191 on: March 20, 2024, 01:22:25 PM »
Wow! Never seen the light colored tigerwood before…. Excuse me :notworthy: :notworthy:
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #192 on: March 28, 2024, 09:02:44 AM »
Made up a few spliced veneers with Lace maple and nicely colored walnut here.





And here is the riser wood I’m using….


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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #193 on: March 28, 2024, 09:05:33 AM »
Looking sweet Kirk. Walnut and maple are my current favorite color combo and that maple is fantastic!

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #194 on: March 28, 2024, 09:06:03 AM »
Look at this Lace maple with a little lacquer on it… this stuff is going to look good under glass me thinks…


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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #195 on: March 28, 2024, 09:07:38 AM »
💯!!!

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #196 on: March 28, 2024, 09:20:28 AM »
Very nice Kirk ,

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #197 on: March 28, 2024, 09:44:34 AM »
Them veneers look great.

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #198 on: March 28, 2024, 10:16:22 AM »
Stunning figure in that maple!

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #199 on: March 28, 2024, 11:29:42 AM »
I've had some cool looking lace maple in the past, but never had a piece quite like this one. it was mixed in with a bunch of lumber i bought last summer, but there was only one piece... So i had to do something special with it.

Time  to put this bow together today....   Kirk
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