what a steal...

[seventhdevil]

this year i'd stopped buying wood on ebay unless it was for a commision as i was spending too much, however i saw a listing last week that i just couldn't refuse. i paid £50 for the listing and £12.50 for delivery.

i received this morning,

12" x 3" zebrano bowl blank
10" x 1 1/2" padauk bowl blank
10" x 1" bubinga bowl blank
10" x 2 1/2" wenge bowl blank
10" x 2 1/2" wenge bowl blank
10" x 2 1/2" wenge bowl blank
10" x 2 1/2" wenge bowl blank
5" x 1 1/2" chechen bowl blank
5" x 1 1/2" chechen bowl blank
8 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 2" ziricote square bowl blank
15" x 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" ebony spindle blank
12" x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2" african blackwood spindle blank
5" x 2" turned verawood cylinder
5" x 2" turned verawood cylinder
5" x 2" turned verawood cylinder
5" x 2" turned verawood cylinder
5" x 2" turned verawood cylinder
5" x 2" turned verawood cylinder


18 bits of normally very expensive hardwoods that for me have cost less than £3.50 each.



have anyone of you come across a right good woody bargain that you just had to buy?

[Graham]

Sounds like a good deal to me.

[Les Symonds]

My best-buy to date, was my first foray into timber buying, was a batch of well over 200 pieces for £200. There was 8 pieces of Thuya burr, plus twenty other assorted pieces of Australian burrs, a huge disc of elm burr, lumps of blackwood, boxwood, and every other wood imaginable. Also thrown in was a box full of stains and finishes, and a box full of project kits and parts......and I had to take a trailer with me to load all the laburnum logs that got thrown in, as well - they'd been indoors for 10 years!

I don't expect ever to do any better than that.

Les