Georgeous board: Waterfall Bubinga (Now Photos!)

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  • gerti
    Veteran Member
    • Dec 2003
    • 2233
    • Minnetonka, MN, USA.
    • BT3100 "Frankensaw"
    #1

    Georgeous board: Waterfall Bubinga (Now Photos!)

    The other day I came across the most beautiful board of wood I have ever seen: Waterfall Bubinga, 1" thick, 8' tall, on average about 2 feet wide (not squared, as sliced from the tree). It had sap wood all around creating an oval medallion-shape. I must have spent 5 minutes just looking at it.

    Oh, the price: Around $1000 (that is one thousand US dollars).

    Next time I'll go there I'll take the camera. Hopefully it is still there and I'll post a photo.

    Gerd

    OK, finally got some photos, enjoy! The board is just rough planed, not finished!








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    • monte
      ***** Windbag
      • Dec 2002
      • 5242
      • Paw Paw, MI, USA.
      • GI 50-185M
      #2
      Where did you see it at?
      Monte (another darksider)
      Reporting Live from somewhere near Kalamazoo

      http://community.webshots.com/user/monte49002

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        • jnesmith
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2003
          • 892
          • Tallahassee, FL, USA.
          #3
          $62.50 per board foot.

          When David Marks gave a shop tour of his wood collection, the stick he called the "piece de resistance" was a huge slab of quilted Bubinga. It was incredibly beautiful. He said he was going to save it like a fine wine, and slice veneers from it over time.
          John

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            • BostonBullit
              Established Member
              • Dec 2003
              • 255
              • Medway, MA, USA.
              #4
              I got a guy up the road from me that imports exotics who sold a beautiful waterfall BooBinga plank measuring 1" thick x 26" wide (natural edge) x 16' long on ebay for $450. would have bought it for myself but it wasn't in the budget and where the heck would I put the thing??!?! The local Rockler has some smaller 8/4 chunks with more intense figure for outrageous prices :-/

              John -- the board on the show was quilted mahogany....and a dang fine piece at that!
              \"will trade this sig space for lumber\"

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                • gerti
                  Veteran Member
                  • Dec 2003
                  • 2233
                  • Minnetonka, MN, USA.
                  • BT3100 "Frankensaw"
                  #5
                  quote:Originally posted by monte

                  Where did you see it at?
                  I'd rather not say...

                  OK, that is just me hoping nobody buys it for a while so I can see it a few more times. I saw it at the local (Minnetonka, MN) Rockler, which in part explains the high price. I did a Google search, can't say I have found anything yet that came even remotely close looks-wise.

                  Gerd

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                    • Otter
                      Senior Member
                      • Nov 2003
                      • 865
                      • Cumming, GA, USA.
                      • Delta Left Tilt UniSaw
                      #6
                      You mean like this

                      http://www.westpennhardwoods.com/sho...ategory_id=897

                      All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible

                      T.E. Lawrence

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                        • gugie
                          Established Member
                          • Dec 2002
                          • 439
                          • Redwood City, CA, USA.
                          • BT3000
                          #7
                          quote:Originally posted by Otter

                          You mean like this

                          http://www.westpennhardwoods.com/sho...ategory_id=897

                          Oooooooooooooooooooooooooh!

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                            • BobSch
                              Veteran Member
                              • Aug 2004
                              • 4385
                              • Minneapolis, MN, USA.
                              • BT3100
                              #8
                              quote:Originally posted by gerti

                              quote:Originally posted by monte

                              Where did you see it at?
                              I'd rather not say...

                              OK, that is just me hoping nobody buys it for a while so I can see it a few more times. I saw it at the local (Minnetonka, MN) Rockler, which in part explains the high price. I did a Google search, can't say I have found anything yet that came even remotely close looks-wise.

                              Gerd
                              Gerd,

                              If it's the one I'm thinking of, I've seen it too and it is beautiful. Does drool knock down the price?
                              Bob

                              Bad decisions make good stories.

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                                • Pappy
                                  The Full Monte
                                  • Dec 2002
                                  • 10490
                                  • San Marcos, TX, USA.
                                  • BT3000 (x2)
                                  #9
                                  Some beautiful wood, but WAAYYYY outta my price range!
                                  Don, aka Pappy,

                                  Wise men talk because they have something to say,
                                  Fools because they have to say something.
                                  Plato

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                                    • Black wallnut
                                      cycling to health
                                      • Jan 2003
                                      • 5513
                                      • Ellensburg, Wa, USA.
                                      • BT3k 1999
                                      #10
                                      Yeah, what Pappy said!
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                                        • Ken Weaver
                                          Veteran Member
                                          • Feb 2004
                                          • 2417
                                          • Clemson, SC, USA
                                          • Rigid TS3650
                                          #11
                                          Gerd -
                                          Why don't you and Bob go in together on it? Would make a great gift for my next birthday! [)]
                                          Ken Weaver
                                          Clemson, SC

                                          "A mistake is absolute proof that someone tried to do something!

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                                            • germdoc
                                              Veteran Member
                                              • Nov 2003
                                              • 3567
                                              • Omaha, NE
                                              • BT3000--the gray ghost
                                              #12
                                              Beautiful!

                                              At that price, they ought to throw in the bandsaw to cut the veneer with...

                                              Jeff


                                              “Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing”--Voltaire

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