Favorite Wood

[Anonymous No.2005522]

Local: Fir, red and yellow cedar.

Unusual: Yew, dogwood, juniper.

Exotic: Teak, mahogany, cocobolo and purpleheart.


Pic related, a 29" X 69" slab of purpleheart for a tiered level 8 bit computer desk.

[Anonymous No.2005588]

sanded birch is all you need.

[Anonymous No.2005593]

>>2005522
Tamarack, spanish ceder, and lignum vitae. They just smell so great when you work them.

When it comes to working qualities, walnut, spanish ceder, beech, and mahogany are my favorites

[Anonymous No.2005629]

>>2005522

How much would that much purple heart cost?

I'm English so
Local: walnut, pearwood

Unusual: bogwood

Exotic: black limba, cocobolo

[Anonymous No.2005638]

>>2005629
>bogwood
Wish we could get bog oak here in the US, insanely expensive when you can find it. Great stuff though.

[Anonymous No.2005828]

>>2005638

I used it for a fingerboard on a guitar. 40£ for 2'x6"x0.75". Shit ain't cheap at all

[Anonymous No.2005843]

>>2005522
Thought that was a slab of steel from the thumbnail, lol.

[Anonymous No.2005851]

>>2005588
Op here. I use birch for firewood. No color, smells weird and has no character.

>>2005593
Have a small amount of walnut, using it for an LP stand. Had used a piece for a crossbow stock.

>>2005629
I paid $50 for it 20+ years ago.

[Anonymous No.2005856]

I use african mahogany (khaya) for building guitar bodies, its reasonably cheap (costs about 20-25 dollars to build a body from stock) and cuts, and routs very easily. Sands very easily.

I have been making fretboards and necks out of Padauk, which is ok. It is very similar to Rosewood in feel/density but much cheaper, and is interesting to look at as its cheeto orange when cut then oxidizes into a reddish purple orange color. It is very fragrant which smells nice at first but then becomes a lung irritant so I kind of want to stop using it.

I am trying to find Paulownia and Black Palm in the US but both are stupid expensive for what is basically trash wood, these trees are basically like the equivalent of weeds where they grow but lumber resellers all seem to mark them up 100000% from what it probably costs to get.

[Anonymous No.2006079]

>>2005851
Birch can be quite colorful and have very complex grain patterns, depends on the species, lots of different birches out there. Never come across any birch that smelled much of anything.

>>2005856
Black palm kind of sucks, loves to crack and split. I bought some years ago when it was still dirt cheap and just waste wood that no one wanted, not much fun to work.

[Anonymous No.2007353]

I'm a Yellow Cedar and Sapele guy. It seems everything I build for myself and often others is made of one of those two. It helps my workshop is across the street from an exotic wood supplier that has huge Sapele and AYC deals. I built the cabin top in the picture out of Yellow Cedar bonded onto a curved plywood core that I vacuum bagged

[Anonymous No.2007362]

>>2005522
Local- Gidgee, Buloak and Mulga
All of them make superb knife and tool handles, very dry, low oil, ridiculously strong and hard

Unusual- Brazilian Tulipwood and Mexican Bocote
Some of the most striking timbers out of middle and south america, the Bocote is probably the easiest out of the two despite its high oil content but it polishes up naturally really well. Tulipwood has a bit of a problem with splitting sometimes which can lead me to losing my shit

Exotic- Wenge and Gabon Ebony
Neither I would rate as being pleasant to have anything to do as far as working with, but the results are usually worth the effort (and horrific costs)

[Anonymous No.2007499]

Old boomer sage who was teaching me woodworking before coof gulag kicked in again gave me a few samples from his stash to work with.

Local - Cherry wood. Polishes up well, especially if you get a good pattern.

Unusual - Laburnum. Beautiful to work with, but poisonous to a degree.

Exotic - Australian Ironwood. not used before, but sounds like a fun challenge

[Anonymous No.2007589]

Not a lot of walnut chads here

[Anonymous No.2008373]

>>2005522
Anything other that quarter sawn white oak is nigger tier