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03-16-2013, 05:49 PM
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Picked up some goodies
Picked up some curly cherry at my buddy's dads lumber yard. 5 board ft of it with cutting, splitting, planning, edge straightening for $36. 3 soft bricks a county over for $25.
How did I do?
Last edited by ramitupurs84; 03-16-2013 at 10:15 PM.
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03-16-2013, 08:22 PM
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Weeeeellll.......you did just fine on the brick. And you got a heck of a lot of wood at a decent price. The wood is good, solid wood that will look OK and it will make good handles. Maybe it will even make great looking handles, it's hard to be sure until it's shaped and some finish put on it. But, if you were looking for fancy wood like we use on higher priced knives - namely burls and other highly figured woods - then I'm not sure you got it. Depends on what you wanted to accomplish and what kind of knives you plan to make. If I had to guess though, I'd say years from now you'll still have a sizable hunk of that wood laying around in your shop ....
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03-16-2013, 09:55 PM
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For someone just starting out, you did fine. A maker can spend $36 and have enough stabilized, highly figured wood for one knife. You'll feel better about practicing on a dollar's worth of unstabilized cherry than you will an expensive piece of wood.
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03-16-2013, 10:27 PM
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Where's the harassment on my misspelled topic . Glad when you two comment.
I really don't have any expectations for myself except making sure I have a useable knife and no one gets hurt. I don't have ambitions to make a living on it. Much better then watching tv. $36 to me is a Friday night I could do with out. I like unique things. So I think this fits into that. It's going to be a working man's knife too.
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03-16-2013, 10:31 PM
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Looks nice. I have also been using a cheaper variety of wood for handles. Nothing fancy until I get a little better at getting a better finish. My next one will have a piece of Bubinga that has a little figure. From there I'll try some woods that don't require stabilizing. Be sure to post the finish products.
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03-17-2013, 06:13 AM
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While that's a beauty of a chunk of cherry, the figuring is too broad for making any real show on a knife handle sized object. Make a template out of clear plastic (or cut out the shape in a piece of cardboard) about the size of your average knife handle, it will become obvious when you place it anywhere on the board. Cherry is good handle material and finishes well, just your figure/pattern is pretty open on this piece. I'd save it for larger projects like a display box or something.
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