I remember seeing a lot of this growing, when I went
hiking out west. Maybe you just have to find some
westerner to send you a branch, rather than buying
some through usual wood-buying channels. Maybe a
landscaper is pruning a bush right now and could save
some wood for you if you asked.
An acquaintance of mine made some instrument out of
some bush in his yard, maybe holly.
Would anyone like some barberry branches? There's a
big barberry bush blocking the view out of one of our
windows. The wood is freakishly bright yellow. I think
they use it for dye. I don't know what other
properties it has. I don't know if the pieces would be
big enough for instruments, but they might make
interesting inlay or something.
Melissa the Loud
www.melissatheloud.com
--- Arle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well, I don't know of any other domestics that will
> finish up to that
> blood red color and for various reasons I'm looking
> for domestics. If
> there are other domestics with that intense scarlet
> color (and the
> striking contrast with the cream-colored sapwood)
> I'd be interested in
> finding out about them.
>
> Manzanita isn't generally sold as wood except as
> burl (readily
> available) because the pieces you can net out of
> manzanita are too
> small for most woodworking purposes. It's the same
> reason you almost
> never see apple wood for sale, even though it's hard
> and has nice
> coloration: You just never net furniture-scale
> pieces. My bagpipe,
> however, is made from apple wood and I've found it
> to be right on par
> with, if not better than, woods more commonly used
> in this context.
>
> For wind instruments, however, the pieces you can
> net from manzanita
> would be large enough.
>
> Best,
>
> -Arle
>
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