I feel like we just picked out a puppy! After several meetings with a client, hours surfing the internet and talking to our vendors, we found the perfect piece of walnut. It’s big enough for the eight foot dining table and a little something extra.
This is from Goby Walnut in Portland, OR
It was a close contest. We presented finds from Goby Walnut, Tule Peak Timber, Baker Hardwoods, Anderson Plywood and a father and son from Davis who happened to drop by Monday with a beautiful stack of book-matched sets in their (classic 70′s) pick-up.
What makes this sustainable? Art, at Goby, identified this tree “urban salvage”. It is “beetle kill” and had to be cut down to prevent the diseased branches from falling off on people or things. It is from a farm, so technically, is that “rural salvage”?
The slab is off to the kiln for a few months. I’ll let you know when it gets here.
Here are the other choices we offered. Which is your favorite?
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- This is from Goby Walnut in Portland, OR
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March 19, 2010 at 2:15 am
knottywood
I guess I am lucky that Goby is only ten minutes from my shop. They always have so much nice dry stuff in on hand, that I only go in there if I need material or else I would spend every cent I had. Cross Cut Hardwoods a couple blocks away advertises itself as the woodworkers candy store, but Goby is more like the drug addicts pharmacy.
August 19, 2010 at 10:59 pm
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