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09-21-2017, 03:30 PM
Want to make a Krenov style jointer plane with a 1 1/2" blade. I usually buy blanks from eBay but I can't find any that are big enough. Looking for >=30" piece, preferably closer to 12/4 than 8/4 and quarter or rift sawn. Need something reasonably dry already, so I don't have to wait a bunch of months.

Looking for hard, dense wood, not sort of hard and dense. 

I usually use bubinga or osage orange. Birch or beech might be ok. 

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09-23-2017, 11:23 AM
(09-23-2017, 08:26 AM)Youngbuck Wrote: I've never bought from them, but heard good feedback about Bell Forest Products

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09-23-2017, 12:35 PM
(09-23-2017, 08:26 AM)Youngbuck Wrote: I've never bought from them, but heard good feedback about Bell Forest Products

Bell Forest is my "home" store. I buy a lot of wood from them and highly recommend them for their large selection and great personal service.

They carry yellow birch, bubinga, and osage orange, but not beech.
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09-26-2017, 03:28 AM
Would Ipe work? I've never thought of it for plane building. It's very hard and very dense so it meets that criteria. I have 4 6x6 posts of it. About 4 feet long each
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