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Natural Wood Inventory Page
 Last Update: July 11, 2008

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Caution
Working with wood may cause allergic reactions. Always wear a respirator, eye protection and proper clothing.

Pricing
Each piece of wood is individually graded for figure, color and chatoyance. Chatoyance is defined as "Having a changeable luster." It is a fancy word for the three dimensional effect you see in woods like curly or fiddleback maple. The best wood is priced higher. For example; if two pieces of wood are the same size the higher priced piece is higher quality and/or looks better.

Moisture Content
All of the wood has been carefully dried to 6% or less moisture content. Both of the ends of each block of wood are checked with a digital wood moisture sensor. If the moisture content of both ends is 6% or less the piece is processed for sale. We have our own kiln for drying wood. As wood dries it will occasionally crack, check or honeycomb, all of which are cracks. Most of the cracks will be sanded off when the piece of wood is processed for sale. Sometimes the crack cannot be sanded out. These cracks can be fixed by filling the crack with a mixture of super-glue (cyanoacrylate) and sanding dust.

Photographs
Most of the wood we sell is in block form. This allows the wood to be used for a hidden tang, or cut into scales and used on full tang knives. However we do also offer some book-matched scales. You may notice some of the wood item numbers are links. To see the piece of wood click on the item number. We photograph both sides of each piece of wood (except for book-matched pairs). Most of the photos look like a pair of scales but it is two pictures combined to show both side of a single block.

Special Requests
If you need a piece of wood that is odd or special sized let us know. We always have over one thousand pounds of wood drying and may be able to cut what you need.

Bowie Blocks™:

At the April 2004 Oregon Knife Collectors Show we introduced Bowie Blocks™. The response was great. We now carry Bowie Blocks™ as standard items in the inventory.

A Bowie Block™ is a block of handle material. Rather than being a rectangular block, the material is cut at an angle on one side. The shape allows knifemakers to make handles that get wider at the pommel with minimal waste. Or the handle can be curved. To see examples of Bowie Blocks™ click here.

The advantage to knifemakers is cost. One of the factors we use in pricing is cubic inches. A block with a wedge missing has fewer cubic inches so it costs less. In the width column two measurements are shown. The first measurement is the width at the top of the block. The second measurement is the width at the bottom of the block.

We will continue to carry standard rectangular blocks.

Inventory Updates
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 Wood Type   Item No   Thickness    Length         Width          Price   
 Bubinga, Pomelle   3145 1.13" 5.1" 1.8"   $22.50 
 Wood Type   Item No   Thickness    Length         Width          Price   
 Camphor, Burl   13413 1.13" 5.0" 1.6"   $23.00 
 Camphor, Burl   13417 1.06" 5.0" 1.6"   $21.50 
 Camphor, Burl   13412 1.06" 5.0" 1.5"   $21.00 
 Camphor, Burl   13408 1.00" 4.9" 1.6"   $19.00 
 Camphor, Burl   2621 0.94" 5.0" 1.6"   $16.50 
 Camphor, Burl   13411 0.75" 5.0" 1.5"   $14.50 
 Camphor, Burl   13415 0.69" 5.0" 1.5"   $13.50 
 Camphor, Burl   13409 0.63" 5.0" 1.6"   $12.50 
 Wood Type   Item No   Thickness    Length         Width          Price   
 Cocobolo 7437 1.00" 5.0" 1.4"   $20.00 
 Cocobolo 13149 1.00" 5.0" 1.5"   $19.50 
 Cocobolo 7429 0.94" 4.9" 1.5"   $18.00 
 Cocobolo 13148 1.00" 5.0" 1.5"   $17.50 
 Cocobolo 7449 1.00" 4.8" 1.5"   $17.00 
 Cocobolo 7447 1.00" 4.8" 1.4"   $16.00 
 Cocobolo 7439 1.00" 5.0" 1.5"   $15.50 
 Cocobolo 13153 1.00" 5.0" 1.5"   $15.50 
 Cocobolo - Bowie Block™   13158 0.75" 5.1" 1.4" - 2.2"   $14.50 
 Wood Type   Item No   Thickness    Length         Width          Price   
 Ipe, Curly   13436 0.94" 5.0" 1.8"   $20.50 
 Ipe, Curly   13571 0.94" 5.0" 1.8"   $20.50 
 Ipe, Curly   13569 0.94" 5.0" 1.8"   $18.50 
 Ipe, Curly   13570 0.94" 5.0" 1.8"   $18.50 
 Ipe, Curly   13572 0.94" 5.0" 1.8"   $18.50 
 Ipe, Curly   13566 0.94" 5.0" 1.5"   $18.00 
 Ipe, Curly   13432 0.94" 5.0" 1.8"   $18.00 
 Ipe, Curly   13428 0.94" 5.1" 1.5"   $17.50 
 Ipe, Curly   13559 0.94" 5.0" 1.5"   $17.00 
 Ipe, Curly   13561 0.94" 5.0" 1.5"   $16.00 
 Ipe, Curly   13558 0.94" 5.0" 1.5"   $15.50 
 Ipe, Curly   13560 0.94" 5.0" 1.5"   $15.50 
 Ipe, Curly   13564 0.94" 5.0" 1.5"   $15.50 
 Ipe, Curly   13563 0.94" 5.0" 1.5"   $14.50 
 Ipe, Curly   13567 0.94" 5.0" 1.5"   $14.50 
 Wood Type   Item No   Thickness    Length         Width          Price   
 Kingwood   19623 1.00" 5.1" 1.8"   $27.00 
 Kingwood   7424 1.00" 5.0" 1.5"   $25.50 
 Kingwood   7417 0.88" 4.9" 1.3"   $18.50 
 Wood Type   Item No   Thickness    Length         Width          Price   
 Lignum Vitae   3170 1.25" 5.1" 1.6"   $15.00 
 Lignum Vitae   3179 1.25" 5.1" 1.6"   $15.00 
 Lignum Vitae   3169 1.25" 5.1" 1.5"   $14.50 
 Lignum Vitae   3174 0.88" 4.7" 1.5"   $9.50 
 Wood Type   Item No   Thickness    Length         Width          Price   
 Snakewood 19633 0.85" 5.1" 1.4"   $42.00 
 Snakewood 19632 1.00" 5.0" 1.4"   $40.00 
 Wood Type   Item No   Thickness    Length         Width          Price   
 Verawood 19614 1.30" 5.1" 1.5"   $23.00 
 Verawood 19616 1.00" 5.1" 1.7"   $21.00 
 Verawood 19627 0.92" 5.0" 1.8"   $18.00 
 Verawood 19617 1.00" 5.1" 1.7"   $18.00 
 Verawood 19625 1.00" 5.1" 1.7"   $18.00 
 Verawood 19628 0.83" 5.1" 1.7"   $17.00 
 Verawood 19615 1.00" 5.0" 1.8"   $16.00 
 Verawood 19618 1.00" 5.1" 1.8"   $16.00 
 Verawood 19629 1.00" 5.1" 1.8"   $16.00 
 Verawood 19619 1.00" 5.1" 1.8"   $15.00 
 Wood Type   Item No   Thickness    Length         Width          Price   
 Walnut, Claro, Burl   4996 0.88" 5.0" 1.5"   $16.00 
 Walnut, Claro, Curly   13419 1.06" 5.1" 1.6"   $26.00 
 Walnut, Claro, Curly   13420 1.06" 5.1" 1.6"   $25.00 
 Walnut, Claro, Curly   9169 1.00" 5.1" 1.6"   $24.50 
 Walnut, Claro, Curly   5014 1.00" 5.1" 1.6"   $23.50 
 Walnut, Claro, Curly   5016 1.00" 5.1" 1.6"   $23.50 
 Wood Type   Item No   Thickness    Length         Width          Price   
 Walnut, English   4881 0.94" 5.0" 1.4"   $14.50 
 Walnut, English   4893 0.94" 5.0" 1.4"   $12.00 
 Walnut, English   4886 0.81" 5.0" 1.4"   $10.50 
 Walnut, English   4904 0.75" 5.0" 1.4"   $9.50 
 Walnut, English   2623 0.75" 5.0" 1.4"   $7.50 
 Walnut, English   2622 0.44" 5.0" 1.5"   $5.50 
 Wood Type   Item No   Thickness    Length         Width          Price   
 Ziricote 19609 0.97" 5.0" 1.8"   $34.00 
 Ziricote 19631 1.00" 5.1" 1.8"   $33.00 
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