New Woods Going Out to Stabilization

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New Woods Going Out to Stabilization

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I will send these off sometime this week to be stabilized at K&G in Arizona. Why K&G? In this case I think they are as good maybe better, as WSSI, but my primary reason to use K&G is shipping. I do use WSSI and K&G, so I'm familiar with both. I always use white correction fluid to mark these with my initials and a # to help me keep track of them after I get them back. So, I will put DH200, DH201 and so on. I keep track of them on a sheet of paper and wil be selling them until my cost is next to nothing or nothing. These are 3-7/8 long x 1-1/4 wide. Hard to find bigger Black Palm Lumber. I have these cut to 1-1/8 after I sand the the ends down and be cut to thickness as desired.

It will cost almost twice as much to ship these woods to Iowa, so to K&G in Arizona they go, I live in the same zone.

I also have some Spalted mango to send and I'm waiting on a piece of hard wood that does not need to be stabilized. I am searching for ONE more before I send it off, at 10 LBS, I get a price break.

Black Palm tends to go real fast. ::doh:: I make a couple knives and sell it pretty quickly.
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Red Palm - end cut Grain Already stabilized
Red Palm - end cut Grain Already stabilized
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Black Palm - end cut Grain.
Black Palm - end cut Grain.
Black Palm - end cut Grain.
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got wood? ::paranoid:: :roll: be sure you show some finished. ::tu::
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jonet143 wrote:got wood? ::paranoid:: :roll: be sure you show some finished. ::tu::
The Palm will be done much sooner than the spalted Mango. I have been playing with wood colors, have some curly maple that is now pure back and some spalted maple that is yellow. I am toying with the idea of waiting until my vacuum chamber is complete (couple months +) and dying some of this spalted Mango. Means I will have to redry it without cracking it :roll: ::dang:: . There are some interesting things I can play with to get a dual color scale. I also have some dense Movingui that is OD green using 3.5 CC yellow and 4.0 CC of blue water based dyes in a liter of water. The Movingui is not dyed through though, so it would be a good test for the vacuum chamber, one of many. I guess I'm at the point where I SHOULD take notes so I don't lose a recipe or so I don't duplicate a failure. ::dang:: ::dang::
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kinda like re-loading hukk, i got more notes from loading than i got guns now. :lol:
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jonet143 wrote:kinda like re-loading hukk, i got more notes from loading than i got guns now. :lol:
Yeh, I started with notes at 16, gotta do it. The practice serverd me well in the high tech industry. When you're working on a $25million machine like some of those Nikon Steppers, you have to answer to down time. Not just a mistake, BUT why was this thing down for 2 or 3 hours. That's a lot of money it's not making, fortunately I never had to answer to that. ::doh::
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This made me think... :shock: LOL

I have a bone that is a Steller Sea Cow bone. It look to me like a large rib about a foot long. I think it needs to be stabilized. I one time was going to send it to someone here at AAPK ether to do or to send it to get stabilized along with what he was going to send in to get done.

I forgot his NAME. Perhaps he will read this and let me know if I have this right. We were going to do this cuz the more you send in at one time the CHEEPER it cost per bone. Kinda like a group of bones to get stabilized.

Is this a good idea Hukk ?

I can NOT add a photo today ??
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Yeah, go for the cheapest route. I think you live closer to WSSI, in Iowa, so shipping won't be very much, need to figure that into the cost also since you are talking about just one bone.

http://www.stabilizedwood.com

I've seen bone and antler done by WSSI.
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Hukk i'm liking that Mango
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tank wrote:Hukk i'm liking that Mango
Thanks, some of it I will leave natural, actually most of it. Some will be cut for hidden tang knives and I do plan to color some. I buy the dyes from K&G. I measure it out with a 10CC syringe and this dye is very concentrated -7CC in a quart is quite bright about 30CC for an oz, so I use 7.5CC as a base for quart sized containers. For some colors 3CC (1/10 oz) to a quart is just fine.

For some of the palm I plan to cut 1/2 inch blocks, (cut in half is slightly less that 1/4 inch) looks good on a slippie. ::tu:: ::tu::
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looks good on a buck 110 too, I like the stuff alot

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