New wood processed

Well, at least partly – it’s been through the skim cutting, but not yet sanded or cut into cubes.

Most of the koa was just undersized, so I’ll be saving that for later use in my 1/2″ cube based puzzles. This is not a reflection on the seller – these were extras thrown in to fill my box of wood and if I were actually turning pens they’d most likely be fine. Almost all of the mango was usable (and all the ones from the auction were), the red river gum was just a touch undersized (for me) and the tamarind and signature turned out just beautiful I’m going to have to find out how to get more of that.

So, here are the followup photos: taken after the skim cut on the saw. These are not wetted down at all.

koa: (hmmm, guess I didn’t get this one uploaded – I’ll fix this later

mango: some of the mango shows a bit of curl

tamarind: This showed some surprising color

red river gum:

signature: this was the most surprising. I’ll be very interested to see this with some finish on it to give it depth. Since I have some pieces that can’t be used due to the knot in them you’ll most likely see some waterloxed pictures tomorrow