is it weird that

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spending an afternoon at the lumber yard brings a smile to my face. I managed to get some nice pieces! Normally I head down there with a specific bass design in mind, but this time I just had some cash to spend and spending it on wood somehow seems more productive than buying your normal consumer goods. I'm hoping to try and build 2 "showcase" basses this year which I'll try to market.

My heads now spinning with different wood combinations!

Managed to find a nice hunk of walnut (with a little bit of crotch pattern) possibly big enough for a 2-piece body, although I may use it for tops instead. Got some nice figured purpleheart! Also found some african rosewood, which according to the interweb is the same as bubinga (?). Although this wood has a much more pronounced grain than any bubinga I've worked with :-S
It'll make an awesome neck though I reckon!

So I want to see the woods that you have stacked up in your workshop. Those woods that you put aside for a special project.

 

[Rodent]

So I want to see the woods that you have stacked up in your workshop

here you go

full off goodies like the top shown above, and also many more like these

all the best,

R

 

[Zombbg4]

That's some killer stuff, R.

 

[vbasscustom]

i have this one peice of quilted maple. no thing spectacualr, in fact, its barly even quilted. but it was my grandfathers, he loved it, and he left it to me when he died. he actually put the word, my peice of quilted maple goes to lee in his will. im saving it for a very special project, when my skills get much better, its thick enough to boom match twice. and make a back and front, when i get home ill take a couple pictures, it is at 2% humidity right now

 

[andrew_b]

some nice stuff there mate

im getting ready for my next trip to get some timber...

just out of intrest
what kinda prices did you pay over there?

 

[LedBelli Bass]

Would that be a 66 Mustang there behind the boxes?

 

[Rodent]

andrew - each of those killer 1/4" thick quilt sets you see there has a 'defect', but it falls outside of my body outline so it's essentially like there was no defect. still, these were picked up at a discount for under $75US per set


LB - close ... it's an early 65FB (64-1/2 style interior) with 135K miles (15K on a complete rebuild I did a few years back) I had a '66 convertable with 72K miles that I foolishly sold back in '96

all the best,

R

 

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So I don't have anything quite like rodents woods. But here's the spoils from my recent trip to the wood shop:

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[vbasscustom]

cool, i wish i had that much money to have wood left over, something i could make another bass with

 

[bronzehydra]

I love the lumberyards. When I'm there, I always say to my friend "I think it would be cool to live here. But there needs to be a bed, TV, and food"

I don't really have a collection of wood to show, but I do love going to the lumberyard

 

[mikeyswood]

I was 18 when I got a job at Paxton. I couldn't afford to work there; the employee discount was cost plus 10 and half of my paycheck went right back to them

Here are a few pics:
Some quilty

some flamey

Some random pieces

A bunch of Kingwood in this one

An obscene amount of Birdseye

~15 Rosewoods

An even more obscene amount of top grade Birdseye

 

[vbasscustom]

holy crap. just turn your house into a lumber yard already.
see, your the guy on the block that when a kid sees you, hes like "mommy, look, theres the wood guy"

 

[mikeyswood]

"mommy, look, theres the wood guy"

Strangely enough, my career at Samuel Adams has me labeled "the beer man" on my street