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Offline WESTBROOK

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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #20 on: October 13, 2011, 06:57:00 PM »
Ebony and Osage works for me.

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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #21 on: October 13, 2011, 07:08:00 PM »
To be honest. . .  I like black, cause I'm gonna paint it when I get it.
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #22 on: October 13, 2011, 07:08:00 PM »
Wow ,some real nice combos..........
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #23 on: October 13, 2011, 07:24:00 PM »
Dave need some pictures "para rosa" ?  I don't recall ever seeing it but that's not unusual for this old dude if it's been more than a couple of days...       :)
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #24 on: October 13, 2011, 07:37:00 PM »
This is a combination that I built for a charity auction in Jackson Wy. It is spalted maple and koa and I thought it was one of the nicer combos I have seen. The koa was an extremely rare piece and very hard to find. I have not replaced it yet.
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #25 on: October 13, 2011, 07:38:00 PM »
ebony riser with yew limbs........
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #26 on: October 13, 2011, 07:42:00 PM »
I have a Hill "Half Breed" with yew limbs and walnut riser that I think looks good.

I also like that combination of ebony and osage posted above.  (Hmmm... I might have to get a Hill "Owl" one day.)
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #27 on: October 13, 2011, 07:52:00 PM »
Another super fancy koa and spalted maple with the wildest koa limb veneers in the world.
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #28 on: October 13, 2011, 07:55:00 PM »
Very nice Steve.... That is some Georgous KOA!!!
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #29 on: October 13, 2011, 08:05:00 PM »
I've seen some very nice zebra wood combinations. I like yellow and canary wood is very nice as it doesn't darken like osage over time.

With veneers almost anything is possible and there have been some very unusual and stunning woods under clear glass.

Bubinga, cocobolo, ipe, padouk, East Indian and rio rosewood, sapelli, and tulipwood are just some of the woods that I have seen.
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #30 on: October 13, 2011, 08:11:00 PM »
here's one you don't see every day.....

can you guess what this stuff is?


 

 
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #31 on: October 13, 2011, 09:06:00 PM »
Striped Ebony?


 
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #32 on: October 13, 2011, 09:39:00 PM »
My favorites change like the seasons.

One particular combo that has interested me for years is a macassar riser w/bocote flare and bocote limb veneers.

The Zircote riser with tiger Myrtle limbs has possibly been one of my all time favorites. Since I own one, I just had to find another favored combo.

Best of luck choosing.
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #33 on: October 13, 2011, 10:42:00 PM »
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can you guess what this stuff is?
Marble Wood...what did I win?
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #34 on: October 13, 2011, 10:54:00 PM »
another vote for cocobolo and osage

 
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #35 on: October 13, 2011, 11:21:00 PM »
Claro walnut is pretty nice.


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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #36 on: October 13, 2011, 11:41:00 PM »
Coasre500 cam the closest... Black and white ebony is what they called this stuff.  Roy Mackey found it about a week ago and we are are going to build him a Sasquatch RC out of it.

That board weighs 14.5 pounds with a 14% MC level.
it's pretty dense material.

Check out these Black walnut riser blocks....

 
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #37 on: October 14, 2011, 12:34:00 AM »
Cocobolo or Madagascar Ebony for the riser. Bubinga looks pretty good also. Tigerstripe myrtle looks great on limbs.
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #38 on: October 14, 2011, 02:52:00 AM »
Kirk, Like my grandson says, O MY lanta That walnut is to die for,.
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Re: favorite wood color combos for handle and limbs
« Reply #39 on: October 14, 2011, 03:02:00 AM »
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Originally posted by cahaba:
Cocobolo or Madagascar Ebony for the riser. Bubinga looks pretty good also. Tigerstripe myrtle looks great on limbs.
There is a big difference between Madagascar ebony and Macassar ebony.

here is Madagascar.

 

 


here as Macassar Ebony.

 

 

 
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