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   SgianDubh | May 07, 2008 01:33am | #1

   Zebrano, radially sawn veneer. Crown cut shows yellow/red/orange and black blotching. In radially sawn wood the stripiness is due to alternating spiral grain, and the blotchiness in crown or radially cut material is due to the same growth pattern.

   Okay to work in the solid, but you'll usually get tearout with every other stripe whichever way you feed ith through machines. Often best taken to final dimension with thickness sanders, and usually best prepared for polishing using the following, or a mix of the following: power sanding, hand sanding and scraping. 

   As you work it, particularly with sanding machines, it stinks a bit like a sickly, pus infected rat crawled up someone's backside and died . Slainte.

   Richard Jones Furniture

   
   

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   Edited 5/6/2008 6:37 pm by SgianDubh

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   Lataxe | May 07, 2008 11:16am | #4

   Richard,

   Might I impose on your vast knowledge of UK woodworking suppliers to ask where one might obtain zebrano in the solid, of sufficient size to make 60cm X 90cm picture frames of 3cm depth?

   I am hoping you will know a fine wee source as the sister-in-law, who is 6ft 2ins and wears Doc Martin boots size 9, has demanded some picture frames filled with photos of the wild beasts spotted on her recent South African photo safari.  I cannot deny her as I am a mere 5ft 10ins and wear slippers these days.  :-)

   Lataxe, victim of relatives.

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   SgianDubh | May 07, 2008 03:41pm | #5

   John Boddy in Boroughbridge have some 2" zebrano in at ~£90 a cubic foot. They're expecting some 1" in soon, and expect to sell it at about £70- £80 a cube, all plus VAT.

   I know it's the wrong side of the Pennines for you, but with your love of rambling the hills, you could always make a long walk of it there and back. Three or four days should do it, ha, ha. Slainte.Richard Jones Furniture

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   Lataxe | May 08, 2008 10:05am | #6

   Richard,

   Many thanks for that Boddy tip. In the past I would naturally have gone there for anything exotic but the last two trips were very disappointing; much of the warehouse containing the exotics had been given over to the sale of wooden flooring....

   I'l be over them little Pennine hills in a flash.  Once upon a time it would have been a mere Sunday run with the Lune Cycle Racing Club (or "Dangerous Idiots" as we were known to the motoring folk of Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire).  Now I will have to dust off the motor vehicle and put some parafin in the tank.

   You have probably saved me from a sister-kicking, which isn't as bad as a sister tongue-lash, even so.

   Lataxe

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   SgianDubh | May 08, 2008 10:48am | #7

   I always find John Boddy very helpful. They have wide ranging sources and are often able to get what I want.

   If they know another supplier that's better able to provide what I want they'll point me towards them. Just the other day I was looking for air dried straight grained native ash for a steam bending job. They provided a name and off we went in the van. Picked up some lovely air dried stuff, that was over 20% MC as you'd expect in this climate at this time of year.

   It bent like a dream, and I have one very happy student that's learnt a big lesson, ie, that air dried stuff bends a lot easier and more successfully than anything kiln dried. He'd been struggling with the kilned stuff, but now he's getting much better results, and a lot quicker because it needs a lot less steaming to achieve the same bend. He's also able to bend thicker material than he could with the kilned stuff. Lots of good learning for him, and he's taking it all on board, which makes it even better from my point of view as his tutor. Slainte.Richard Jones Furniture

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   1stwoodstone_man | May 07, 2008 01:46am | #2

   Looks like Teak

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   ring | May 07, 2008 07:18am | #3

   As Richard said, it's Zebrano veneer.

   David Ring

   http://www.touchwood.co.il/?id=1&lang=e