05-14-2022, 08:13 PM
(05-14-2022, 10:05 AM)jcousins2 Wrote: I just bought a small piece at macbeath hardwood in Berkeley- 31.07 a pound.I love that place, they used to have a place in the South Bay but closed it down, it was nothing like the Berkeley store.
I got some of my favorite olive wood there, I still have some to make handles out of. It is one of my all time favorite woods to work.
Do they have ebony up there these days? I haven't been there, but there's a couple crooks I won't deal with in the South Bay, one sells green wood claiming it's dry, which isn't very nice, IMO.
McBeath has always been pretty fair. I have several different rosewoods and I had one really cool Bocote board, not very big but Steve Knight made a dovetail plane out of it for me. Inside in the room next to the register is where the cool stuff used to be, but back up on top in the warehouse/storage there's some nice walnut and other more common species.
Hope you got some cool wood, as you can tell I like that place!
As soon as I get my shop built, I'm going shopping for at least some hardwoods to use on cabinets and such. I want a lot of extraordinary wood inside the home...I'll spend more in time than I will on wood, so I might as well build the best...
Alan
Geometry was the most critical/useful mathematics class I had, and it didn't even teach me mathematics.
Geometry was the most critical/useful mathematics class I had, and it didn't even teach me mathematics.