I have been hanging fire on a wood board project for some time.
Today I glued together two pieces of 1/4’’ wood edge to edge
to make the laminated fin.It will be glassed ,It will be solid.
I have seen the pictures of the geo. downing box.
I dont copy stuff .
I am reinventing the wheel .
I plan to make this fun…tionable.
There is a t-band
…ambrose…
Im not building a wood board or wood fin right now. Trying to clean out the shop afore the next job. Got a fire going out front burning all the wood scrap. Some ones gotta save me from burning the koa and mango scraps and god only knows what !! Dont like to get rid of any of the wood scraps but gotta. God will punish me for what I am about to burn !!!!
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I dont copy stuff .
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a man after my own heart!
burning koa?
maybe tomorrow down
by the river sunday
paddling marta…
…ambrose…
Howzit Ambrose,If you want some exotic wood go see Mez, he had some really nice tropical wood and I hope he brought it with him when he moved because he had a bunch of it and I mean a Bunch. It would definitely worth your time to drive to Anahola and check it out. Aloha,Kokua
I don't know Mez but if he has wood I would like to meet him !! Whats he do kokua ? Is he a cabinet maker or something ? Did you by chance know Van Key ? He had a lot of wood too. I got so dam much wood I could never move it all! Ambrose lets go on a feild trip !!
Howzit Wood_Ogre, Mez is a cabinet maker extroidinaire and a really good shaper also. He has lived on the North Shore for over 30 years and I worked with him for a few years. I just hope he kept all the nice wood he had collected over the years and boy did he have a nice big stash of phaesant wood and all Hawaiian woods also. He justlosthis house in Haena and has moved to Anahola but Ambrose might know where he is living now and Ihave toaddthatIneverknew anyone who had so many tools in my life. Aloha,Kokua
No input on the box but…I just married into a lumber company. They take scrap pieces around 2’ x 1’ x 1” thick pieces off the ends of the lumber coming out of the kilns to test the moisture. Donate them to the high school’s shop class or to me when I needed some. I have black walnut, curly maple, maples, birch, cherry, redwood “scraps” .Nothing exotic, but if you need a wood panel glued up with funky grains, let me know. Outline and foil in your court.
Mudybech, talk about hitting the Jackpot!!! Now THAT'S what I call marrying up!
dropped off the balsa with mez yesterday afternoon.
mark you are officially off the hook.
the space mez fell into is quite bitchin.
it’s a mew kjnda quonset hut
he finished off for his landlord in hawaiian homes.
He’s got a couple 12’ koa plank style boards
that were made on spec a few years back
and some more on the mainland
that some guy was supposed to sell
and hasn’t…so mark you might get
the heebee jeebies seeing all that
board foot of koa in a surfboard plank
but if you can bite your tongue
I could take you along when I pick em up
otherwise yo may have to go by yourself…
or maybe you could offer hin a price he couldn’t refuse
and make the boards into rocking chairs and hollow boards…
high on the slopes of moana kapu
the cool air up slope overlooking aliomanu
mez’s spot is heavenly.
ocean view one way
Lush upslope mountain view
the otherway…
…ambrose…
oh yeah he has the big drum dimensional sander
looks like it could take over 24’’
Go muddy
looks like you can make some people real happy
especially those who can lad a good bead.
…ambrose…
who said those
wood varietals
aren’t exotic
Howzit Brose, I am so glad to hearhe scored a great place and bet he has his shop set up really nice. Is the hut his house or just the shop?I know those planks of koa and the boards he sent to the mainland were supposed to be bought bu Rip Curl originally but that fell through ,then the other guy was going to buy them and it blows my mind to hear they still aren't sold because they are beautiful boards since I was there when he was shaping them all. They have been over there for probably around 3 years now since it was before I got cancer that he sent them. Be sure to tell him Aloha from me and let him know I am doing good and working here,that ought to stoke him. That sander is huge and it can easily do over 24" and if I remember right it might do almost 48". Must be a little strange for him to be in Anahola since all his friends are in Haena or Hanalei but he will probably find more work on the eastside since there are more people. Aloha,Kokua
Ambrose a field trip wood be kool. I have my foot in my mouth most of the time and have great respect for my fellow wood worker and love to see their wood stash and machines. Kokua when my shop was in the industrial center I had a 32 inch wide belt sander with a 15 hp motor, It was way kool, Would eat wood as fast as you can feed it !!! Had to sell it when I moved cause I dont have the electrics in my shop now for a machine that big. (no 3 phase here) I do have my 16-32 performax drum sander which gets the job done but kind of slow ! Have had my eye on a 15-30 open end industrial wide belt that is 220 -5hp which is the max I could do in this shop ! Ambrose , since you were last here I moved my personal koa stash into the racks in my shop from storage. I have some boards in the stash from 11 inch wide to 17 inchs wide 10 feet long that are 100% curley. You wouldn't even be able to buy that kind of wood now days. A few weeks ago I was at winklers on oahu and Martin MC and found out that mill run koa is a thing of the past. They now pull all the curley stuff at the mills and make guitar backs or it goes to the veneer mill in japan. Winkler is no longer sliceing veneers at 1/40 but are sliceing at 1/80 which makes it so thin it is damn near impossible to work with . I can still get koa veneer on the mainland at 1/40 but its getting more difficult ! Koa in Hawaii has gotten the name KING KOA but it has gotten to the point where anyone who can affored Koa has to be a KING. I don't worry much cause I got enough Koa and other local cut woods to last untill I die !!
Howzit Wood_Ogre, The one Mez has needs 3 phase and he has a unit that he needed to get hooked up to get 3 phase for the sander but I don't think he ever got it hooked up before moving but may have it hooked up at his new place. He has some connections with pig hunters thatwhen theyfind fallen Koa or other exotic trees down they tell him where they are and he goes and retreives them and has them milled by somebody in Lihue I think. When the Batty's moved they may have given him all the wood the father had before he passed away and there was Koa,Phaesant wood and Milo but nowhere's nearas much as Mez had. Aloha,Kokua
