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10-25-2015, 11:20 PM
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A source for hardwood scraps?
I'd like to try my hand at wood inlays, purflings, rosettes, that sort of thing, to find out if I have a knack for it. What would be a good source of small, thin wood scraps in various species and colors?
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10-25-2015, 11:39 PM
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Take a hike to Windsor next month and attend the NCAL meet-up there - this from NCAL via Facebook:
NEXT NCAL MEETING Hi All, You may have already heard that LMI is holding their annual clearout sale on SATURDAY (note, NOT SUNDAY!) November 14th 2015 starting at 9am (and not a minute earlier) to 2pm. As most of you know by now, this is a NOT TO BE MISSED event - you can pick up some VERY nice wood for $5 per pound, plus there are usually other tool bargains to be had also! LMI has kindly let us tag our NCAL meeting on at the end of their event from 2-4pm and will let us use one of the rooms there for the meeting. They will give us a talk entitled "New stuff from LMI" which should be of interest to all NCAL members. They will feature some new woods and several new tools. There will also be tours of the shop and manufacturing areas available for those new to LMI. LMI aren't providing food or beverages this time, so please arrange to bring lunch with you (or go out for it as required). Please bring snacks/drinks to share with other NCAL members (we can put them in the kitchen area so they don't get snagged by non-members). LMI is at: Luthiers Mercantile Int. Inc. 7975 Cameron Drive, Ste. 1600 Windsor, CA 95492 Hope to see you there!
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Cheers, Frank Ford Last edited by Frank Ford; 10-25-2015 at 11:51 PM.
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10-26-2015, 12:29 AM
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Frank: thanks, that sounds perfect!
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10-26-2015, 10:29 PM
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Move to the bay area! We have cookies. Vegan, organic, gluten free, cage free, free trade raisin cookies.
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10-27-2015, 12:53 PM
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10-27-2015, 03:44 PM
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Thanks for the tips!
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10-27-2015, 07:01 PM
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If you do go to the LMI shop, they sell a headplate assortment set that has most woods that one would use in guitar building and inlay.
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11-26-2015, 07:50 AM
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I buy stuff like that from this place.
https://www.gilmerwood.com/index.php Look at the sales and specials / bargain boxes
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11-26-2015, 05:04 PM
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Thanks for the tips, everyone!
Does SCGC have a shop tour one can attend?
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12-14-2015, 12:07 PM
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hardwood scraps
Rogthefrog,
You never mentioned whether you went to the LMI meeting or not, the local Luthiers club is very informative and a friendly place to see and hear about crafty ideas on building and repairs. The LMI meeting in the fall is a great event to stock up on leftover odds and ends of woods pretty cheaply, sometimes even for free. SCGC generally sponsors a club meeting location about once a year and a tour is generally included. Right across the bay bridge from you in Berkeley on Ashby Ave is Macbeath hardwoods and they have bins of small hardwood pieces for sale by the pound with many wood flavors to choose from, veneers too. I can supply you with odds and ends too. Cocobolo, wenge, ebony, mahogany, rosewoods, purpleheart, blood wood, epe, maple, cherry, zebra wood and a few others I can't think of right now. I live in Oakland just across the bay from you. There is a Rockler woodworkers supply in Pleasant Hill/Concord that caters to folks that make custom pens out of fancy woods and they have a large selection of exotic woods in small pieces also. Dogfeathers
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12-15-2015, 10:11 AM
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Here's an idea that's gotten me some cool stuff. Do a google search of your area for "wood products" and similar places. What you're looking for is a turning shop or small mass production shop. There are two of these within twenty miles of my house; one is a mass production turning shop that makes baseball bats, bedposts, and all manner of cylindrical stuff. They produce a lot of wood turning waste - nicely kiln dried bits of turning blanks too small to use but great to burn as firewood, or use for oddball purposes. Usually this shop has 2" and 3" ash turnings by the barrel, but once I found a box of cocobolo turning blanks that were simply the wrong dimension for their project. I ended up with a handful.
Another place does CNC work and turns out handles for high end super hammers, all kinds of kitchen cutlery handles and other small pieces - by the truckload. They have an amazing assortment of woods left over from large jobs, stuck in the warehouse for whenever they might be needed. One man's trash is another's treasure. So look at discards in places where they can't use the foot long chunks of curly maple offcuts they seem to pile up.
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